{"id":175,"date":"2009-06-14T20:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2018-02-28T17:10:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:10:57","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"And now for something completely different&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6338.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180\" title=\"SA1 marina development\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6338.jpg\" alt=\"SA1 marina development\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6338.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6338-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6338-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a>???????????????? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6381.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181\" title=\"Seagulls drying off after bathing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6381.jpg\" alt=\"Seagulls drying off after bathing\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6381.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6381-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tn_marina-6381-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had an hour to explore the Marina and SA1 area of Swansea this evening. This is not one of?the usual areas I visit, but did manage to get some &#8220;wildlife&#8221; images so to speak. I also did some images that are different from my usual subjects, hence the image of a lamp post. It was the obvious colour contrasts that caught my eye first, but it was only when I walked further a long to get the lamp post to provide some interest in what was a fairly empty?sky did it all finally come together. The Scottish nature photographer Nial Benvie?has written a great essay on finding contrasts or &#8220;edges&#8221; as he refers to them in the making of photographs. It appears in his landscape photography book, but it is also on his website <a href=\"http:\/\/niallbenvie.churchilljohnson.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=211\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also decided to free myself of my tripod, even though I carried it with me, to give myself the chance to just concentrate on making photographs and not worry about the quality issues of handheld versus tripod. Normally every shot I take, apart from some bird in flight shots are take on a tripod. When photographs are compared side by side it is very obvious to see on an enlargement of the image that a tripod shot is <strong>much<\/strong> sharper. The sharpness?can be improved even further with a cable release and locking the mirror up whenever possible. A lot of people avoid tripods because they feel it stops them from taking photographs quickly. Once you develop a habit of using a tripod, it feels strange not to use one, but also your speed in setting one up and adjusting it will become much faster and easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>???????????????? I had an hour to explore the Marina and SA1 area of Swansea this evening. This is not one of?the usual areas I visit, but did manage to get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}