Photography Thread
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Bingo. It's Old Wardour Castle, standing in for Loxley Castle, Robin's 'family home' which he returns to to find his father dead.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Getting round to finding some attempts at photography hidden amongst all the family tat.
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1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Not normally into this photo malarkey, as as I don’t have the artistic eye of my fellow Cakies. However, I was impressed that my iPhone could take this shot, and correctly ID a Southern Hawker 😎
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Those medieval builders were way ahead of their time with that reinforced concrete and nice screed floors.
I went to Old Waldour Castle about 45 years ago, and I think it might have been free to get into then, and was a good ruined castle. At that age, ruins were much better than lived-in ones.
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Technically not really a castle. More of a lightly fortified fancy house to flex to your fellow aristocrats. The RC is obviously modern to stabilise the structure. I was struck by how domestic it feels despite just being some bare stone and concrete.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Yeah, IIRC, it was in a fairly crumbly state when we visited.
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Despite not really being a castle it was besieged twice in the Civil War. Once by each side. The second siege did most of the damage. It was then re-purposed as a romantic ruin in the grounds of the new house, to go with the ornamental lake and grotto.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Taking a short diversion into town to replenish wine and melon stocks... French photo tat, obvs. No charge.
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When the weather is grey you may as well go B&W. 😉
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And on the wine front... £3.80€... oh, you get my fingerprint for free. (Note to self... always polish glass with a microfibre cloth before photographing.)
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Nice bike
Not built to last these days
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Rather nicely it's about the same date ('75) as my first proper bike - that was a Falcon Black Diamond, with ten, yes ten gears! ("You'll never use all of them!") Rather nicely, I bought this Falcon from someone I use to play badminton with, who'd had it from new.
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Two things I find hard to capture in cycling photos are the steepness of climbs (sometimes even to the extent people have commented "Nice downhill road!" when it's actually been a steepish climb), and the vertiginous nature of so many roads around here, even when it's not selfie efforts.
Anyway, that said, this is slightly more successful on this fun bit of road than I've managed before, but you still don't quite get the sense of drop on the right. Maybe it needs a drone or something. The second tree from the left in the first photo is the one to my right in the second photo.
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You really need to be shooting side-on to get an idea of gradient. A drone would be very useful for this but second best is across a narrow ravine with someone up ahead. Not much use on these balcony roads. 😉
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The best way when on a walk seems to be to photograph down on the top of the heads of friends following you, preferably with the horizon somewhere up at the top of the photo. Part of it in cycling is, I suspect, that the hills feel much steeper than they actually are in percentage/visual terms.
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Hairpins can be good too but yes, they never look as steep as they feel. Here's one I prepared earlier.
Note to self, a telephoto will capture it more than a wide angle and get them on the apex.
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Yep, hairpins can be good for steepness, but I always seem to end up with hectares of uninteresting tarmac. I ought to enlist the help of cycling friends for some experimentation/practice.
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Just remembered I had a few from last year. Not the steepest gradient but side on with vertical lines in the background lets you know there was a slope.
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Yeah side on with verticals is the best way or cheat and do what a lot of cycling accounts on Instagram etc. do on ‘the steepest climb in ‘x’ ‘ type posts do and cheat by rotating the photo (just make sure you don’t leave any clues such as vertical lines or people like they seem to do)
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That cheat gets an instant dismissal from me.
Actually, I've just found these three from a local cyclist, from the Drome classic race in early spring. Seem to catch the steepness honestly.
http://www.gerardbetton.fr/2017/02/la-drome-classic-le-mur-d-allex.html
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^^^ Bottom one sums it up nicely! ^^^
Two shots would probably work best. One to show the gradient, one to show the pretty climb.
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Playing with scale a bit.
Just out of shot is a picnic table which shows that the 'cliff face' is only about 12' high man-made grotto.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition2 -
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition1 -
At first glance I thought the plants were climbing ropes.
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Throughout the week it looked like we were going to get clear skies last night so I was planning on a trip to the Elan Valley for some proper dark skies. However, the closer we got the more cloud the radar was showing so it didn't seem worth a 4 hour / 150 mile round trip but I chanced a 1 hour journey to Talybont Reservoir. In the end I gort lucky and after going through some showers on the drive up there was a pretty clear window that covered the time when it got fully dark (around 10.30). The moon was rising from just after 10pm but it was behind me and hiding behind the hills until when I finished at around 11.15pm. I was still surprised just how light it was looking south and the pictures picked up light pollution from Merthyr that was about 12km away and screened by mountains. I also didn't get the peace and tranquility I was hoping for as the place was packed with people 'wild camping' in their vans. Still, pretty happy with the results and it was a nice evening out for me and the hound.
Top one is a panorama of 4 columns and 3 rows with 5 x 12" shots on each panel that have been stacked to give a 60" exposure so 60 pictures in total. As usual the compression on hear isn't doing it any favours, the original TIFF is 204MB and this one is just under 1MB. That one was taken just after official night so I assume the sky was lighter which explains the Milky Way being much more faint but the stars are sharper due to the shorter exposure times, it's much less noisy too due to the stacking process.
The second is three 20" exposures with a bit of light painting on the pump station but not stacked just blended. Milky Way is much more visible but the stars aren't as sharp. Both are taken at f2.8 and ISO 3200 with the top being shot at 16mm (on an APS-C sensor) and the bottom is 12mm which has warped it a bit
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Much less impressive is my food porn from today... friends seem to have got the impression I like sweet things.
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Cycling tat. HDR was put to good use today to catch the luminous light on the mountains, though the third one, being taken in panorama mode, had to make do with some gentle rebalancing of the contrast at home. Couldn't stop snapping today, with a great combination of stunning scenery and light.
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Ha, my old trick of using a 50-million-year-old 2000m mountain as merely a backdrop for something else... this time something at the other end of the ephemeral spectrum...
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