Pic of the Week - Page 55
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Location: Caerphilly Castle built by the Anglo-Norman marcher lord, Gilbert de Clare. It is the largest castle in Wales and the second largest in Britain after Windsor Castle. Built mainly between 1268 and 1271, it is an early example of a concentric castle. Its rings of stone and water defences are formidable even today.
This image was captured using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII camera with a Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II lens. I used Liveview and 10x magnification to manually focus on the daffodils, and lens shift was used to keep the castle upright. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/16, ISO 100, and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 9 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to 1/8th of a second in one-stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving the HDRI was all done in Photoshop CS/4. The HDRI was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro before the final clean-up and image correction/enhancement work was done back in Photoshop. Click here to learn something new ... take part in a HDR workshop - Photography Workshops on the Isle of Wight - |