North Wales Images

I took my camera to various towns and villages in North Wales this weekend and spent the whole time taking photographs (i'm not obsessed or anything! lol). I took over 800 images and the below are a selection of just some of my favourites. I found that I am becoming much more comfortable with the camera and its functions and i'm quite proud of the images taken. 

I simply took my camera, lens and case with me.

Nearly all images were taken on manual settings as the weekend was a great learning experience for me.  When images weren't coming out how I wanted, I was becoming much better at realizing how to correct and improve images.  For example, a lot of my images were coming out to grainy.....I realised that I was shooting in far to higher ISO settings hence the quality of the image being of a much poorer quality.

The weather was very mixed and I walked over various different terrains so I had to adheer to health and safety at all times for example, wearing sensible gripped shoes to prevent slipping.

Images & general comments of interest

I used a high ISO setting for this to create a poorer quality image but felt it worked for this type of "moody" image!

I purposely over exposed this image but liked it that way as it shows a clear divide between the rail and landscape.

Used a low F Stop and a shallow depth of field to emphasis and detail the front facing rocks.

Image 4 - As above but I used a higher F stop to get both the slate and landscape in focus.

This image was slightly edited in photoshop to get this effect and used a fast shutter speed to capture the stone (as it is) being thrown.

Especially like this image as i actually do much editing after the shot.  This was naturally a darker image due to using natural light once the sun was going down.