Not quite there yet but it’s starting to look slicker and the commerce side seems to be working OK, still need to add some products and some of the the pictures need updating as the copyright logo has been uploaded as a permanent feature which means it would print out if anyone order it.
Also need to add more photos to the galleries and add a wedding page and portrait pages, probably add a commissions page too.
Link to site: http://greenwoodphotography.co.uk/
Taken and processed by my Sony Xperia phone in Little Germany, Bradford, UK. Shot’s like this often present themselves in places you frequent a lot so now that mobile phones have good cameras there is no excuse for not photographing them. It’s fun too!
Incredibly talented group of American musicians performing recently at the trades Club in Hebden Bridge. I hope Jordana is reunited with her i-phone soon! Good luck with the future guys. Google them you won’t be disappointed!
Kilnsey Crag, originally uploaded by Greenwood-Photography.
Whilst driving to the Lakes for a walking, camping and photographic weekend I decided to go through the Yorkshire Dales even though the weather was wet and windy with low cloud. Whilst driving past Kilnsey Crag the clouds broke just enough to allow the sun through and this rainbow to form. The softness of the light, the trees and crags gives the image a romantic style much like a painting.
Hole in t’ Wall & Pack Horse Bridge, originally uploaded by Greenwood-Photography.
Taken last year with a Neutral Density filter that has reduced the exposure time by 10 stops to 30 seconds. This has given the enhanced movement in the sky. The clouds were moving towards me and hence they have created this ‘zoom’ effect that adds a little extra impact to the image.
Could not resist this shot when I drove past it, I had to turn the car around and stop to photograph it.
I took a couple of shots the first to determine what the camera thought was the correct exposure and one set manually 1 1/2 stops lower to achieve an under-exposed overall image but one that is perfectly exposed for the illuminated parts of the pub’s walls.
Converting to B&W and adding a deliberate vignette to increase the impact of the image coupled with a few other tweaks in Lightroom finalised the image to my satisfaction.
Sometimes quick reactions and fast technique are needed to capture an image that is only there for a few seconds. In this shot, of a farm in the Yorkshire Pennines, fleeting glimpses of the sun where traveling fast across the landscape and this farm was lit for just a few seconds. To get the exposure, I wanted, I first pointed the camera so that the sky occupied 2/3rds of the picture and depressed the shutter halfway to hold the exposure in the camera and whilst keeping the shutter half-depressed, I recomposed the shot and fully depressed the shutter. All this took less than a couple of seconds to do and before I could take another shot the moment had passed!
Sometimes some basic technique and having your camera set to an automatic setting is the best way to get a shot that is only there for a moment. This applies in other types of photography from reportage wedding shots to nature as you can miss a shot that will never repeat itself again unless you react quickly. Getting used to working fast and loose can reap some great results, though if you’ve got the time use it! It is true that if I waited around long enough the sun would probably have lit the farm again and I could have had the camera set in manual and composed the shot with the aid of a tripod and tripped the shutter at the right moment.
The tow path leads you into this image and the perfectly still water really helps lift this image with it’s perfect reflection.
A favourite place for me is Wasdale in the Lake District. In this shot I zoomed in on these fields at the head of Wast Water as the sun briefly illuminated them. It pays to keep you camera handy!
Pylons on the horizon above Cragg Vale on a windy evening and an exposure of 120 seconds. This was my favourite of 3 exposures the others were 1 & 3 minutes. The movement of the clouds and the curve made in the brighter section of sky makes the image for me anyway.
To get an exposure of this length I used a B&W ND110 filter (ND stands for Neutral Density) this filter reduces exposure times by a factor of 10, a tripod is essential!
