Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Skomer Gallery by Melanie Evans
This is lovely gallery by Melanie Evans from the first day that the Dale Princess sailed to Skomer Island this year on the 5th April. http://www.andydavies.info/pages/client/melanie_evans.html
The Picture Taking Process - 10 steps
I've broken this down into the following 10 steps which I hope you will find useful. Please share!
The key to improving your photography is to go out with the camera, relax, take your time and go through the picture taking process:
1. Find a location.
2. Choose your subject and how it is lit. Decide on your angle of lighting.
3. Decide which lens you will use i.e. select your focal length which controls field of view and perspective (the relative size of objects and how far apart they appear to be).
4. Use Aperture Priority mode and choose your aperture which controls depth of field. A small F stop number is a wide aperture which results in a shallow depth of field which isolates your subject against an out of focus foreground and background
5. Roughly compose your picture and see what shutter speed your camera is giving you. Remember how your point of view (POV) changes the dynamic of your picture. Getting down at the same level is often a good idea.
6. Increase your ISO if you need a faster shutter speed (make sure you set your ISO back to its lowest setting before each new subject). Higher ISOs result in noisier pictures.
7. Take a test shot and look at the overview screen, highlight warning screen and histogram. Decide which part of your scene is the brightest and position this at the best point in your histogram (bar graph). Is there is a white this should be represented in the last columns on the right of the histogram.
8. Use exposure exposition to adjust your exposure if required.
9. Work on the composition remembering that you are “Writing with Light”. Understand your scene from how your eyes and brain are reading it.
10. Take a step back and consider other ways in which your subject could be captured by changing your POV, lighting, focal length, aperture and shutter speed.
The key to improving your photography is to go out with the camera, relax, take your time and go through the picture taking process:
1. Find a location.
2. Choose your subject and how it is lit. Decide on your angle of lighting.
3. Decide which lens you will use i.e. select your focal length which controls field of view and perspective (the relative size of objects and how far apart they appear to be).
4. Use Aperture Priority mode and choose your aperture which controls depth of field. A small F stop number is a wide aperture which results in a shallow depth of field which isolates your subject against an out of focus foreground and background
5. Roughly compose your picture and see what shutter speed your camera is giving you. Remember how your point of view (POV) changes the dynamic of your picture. Getting down at the same level is often a good idea.
6. Increase your ISO if you need a faster shutter speed (make sure you set your ISO back to its lowest setting before each new subject). Higher ISOs result in noisier pictures.
7. Take a test shot and look at the overview screen, highlight warning screen and histogram. Decide which part of your scene is the brightest and position this at the best point in your histogram (bar graph). Is there is a white this should be represented in the last columns on the right of the histogram.
8. Use exposure exposition to adjust your exposure if required.
9. Work on the composition remembering that you are “Writing with Light”. Understand your scene from how your eyes and brain are reading it.
10. Take a step back and consider other ways in which your subject could be captured by changing your POV, lighting, focal length, aperture and shutter speed.
Monday, 18 May 2015
Gallery by Andy Prior
A great gallery here by Andy Prior from the Skomer Island Photography Workshop on the 12th May http://www.andydavies.info/pages/client/andy_prior.html
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Skomer Island Photography Workshop 13th May 2015
The workshop yesterday went well with Skomer Island now coming into its best with a fantastic display of bluebells coming through. There is the best display of sea campion on the cliff slopes above South Haven on the way to High Cliff I have ever seen. It has been confirmed that the puffins have now started to lay eggs so adults will be coming in with sandeels in around 3 weeks time at the beginning of June. The guillemots starting laying eggs on the ledges in April so this is regarded as being an early season for them. There is a whole mass of them on the ledges at the landing with great interaction between them.
Thursday, 30 April 2015
First Skomer Island photography workshop
The Skomer Island Photography Workshop season kicked off with a bang on the 5th April on the first day that the ferry could run due to windy conditions on the previous 4 days. The puffins turned up on land with 10 or more at times in the afternoon. The winter seal haulout in North Haven was the largest I have ever seen. Can you count them? Extra bonus if you can count the bulls and cows separately.
Monday, 27 April 2015
Tripadvisor review
Many thanks to Andy Lamnea for this great review of the Skomer Island Photography Workshops
Tripadvisor Review
Tripadvisor Review
Sunday, 19 April 2015
Dog voilet
I have been trying to create a pleasing composition of a dog violet for many years and came across this one yesterday at Monk Haven. Taken just before the sun was dropped below the trees in the valley with a Nikon D810 hand-held, 60mm macro lens, F6.3, 1/640sec ISO 2000. The wide aperture created the shallow depth of depth directing the viewer to the veins that lead to the stamens. This is their purpose in guiding an insect to pollinate the flower. I hope you like it.
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