Pic of the Week - Page 83
Conwy Castle
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Location: Conwy Castle on the North Coast of Wales. It is quickly becoming my second favourite castle after Caerphilly. What’s great about Conwy Castle is that the city wall surrounding the town makes it possible to photograph the castle from many different angles, elevations and perspectives. It’s also part of a larger North Wales World Heritage site of castles and town walls built by King Edward I, so it attracts people from near and far. This image was captured about half an hour after sunset using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII camera with a Canon EF 16~35mm F/2.8L II lens set at 16mm. I used Liveview and 10x magnification to manually focus on the fence. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/11, ISO 100, and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 11 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to 1/30th of a second in one-stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving the HDRI was all done in Photoshop CS/5. The HDRI was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro before the final clean-up, black and white conversion, toning and 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 - |