Showing posts with label wide-angle. Show all posts
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Monday, July 6, 2009

More from Suffolk


















We visited Orford Ness on Saturday on a very hot sunny day. I decided to concentrate on using my 15 mm fisheye to take the flowers on the island.
The yellow-horned poppy grew in lots of places on the shingle. It was not easy to photograph as the long seed pods that give it the name made it very difficult to fit in the frame.

The other dominant flower on the shingle was sea campion

Monday, June 22, 2009

Westward Ho



A few pictures from Friday's visit to Westard Ho. The Bathing pool is the one where I learnt to swim as a 5 year old and hasn't changed that much over the years.

I think I prefer the pebble and round pool picture with fewer clouds in the sky - I have many versions of the scene but this is the only one with a relatively straight horizon.

The matching of the sky and the pebbles attracted me in the third image.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Budleigh Salterton

A couple of images for the Wider View Series.
They need the horizons straightened. I think I prefer the vertical framing for the second image.
While drinking a mug of tea sitting at one of the tables, I noticed several dolphins playing around the buoys in the bay. I mentioned it to a local and there was great excitement as, contrary to my belief, they very rarely observe dolphins there.









Monday, April 27, 2009

Pasque Flower

This was the best of my images taken on our recent trip to Therfield Heath. I used the 15mm lens on manual focus and tried to estimate where the focus point would be when the lens was at smallest aperture (f22) - needed to use a Hyperfocal distance table to get it right but this isn't far off.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Dartington Hall


Taken by holding camera with 15 mm lens above the flower and seeing what I got. Pleased with result. Would be good in a breeze with petals falling down. Thanks to Meg (in background) and Malcolm for their hospitality.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Follow-up visit to Ely Cathedral





Returned to Ely today - very bright sunny day so lots of light bouncing around in the Cathedral. Used the 15mm lens to give these two views of the choir on a platform underneath the octagon.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Ely Cathedral


Taken with 15 mm Fish-eye converted from raw with no further manipulation - any ideas how it was done!