Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Some shots from Portmeirion ...
Portmeirion
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Paul Lange
Moderator
OOOOwww All very sinister, I had to keep looking over my shoulder while I was looking at these.
Darren Turner
XProPhotographer
WOW
very "Miss Marple" or "Mid Summer Murder" type of treatment (what ever you did in PP)
Really like these photos Hamish, you have done a grand job and got a little creative with your POV rather than the bog standard ones every body takes. What i like about this place is its free in winter months (with a voucher from their leaflets that we stock in hotel) and very quiet on visitors. It has also been recently repainted and refurbed as it was looking very weathered & rough around the edges.
There are tons of places to hide lol to get the sneaky pics of people if that what you like doing
Hard to choose a favourite they are all brilliant, great work
Daz
very "Miss Marple" or "Mid Summer Murder" type of treatment (what ever you did in PP)
Really like these photos Hamish, you have done a grand job and got a little creative with your POV rather than the bog standard ones every body takes. What i like about this place is its free in winter months (with a voucher from their leaflets that we stock in hotel) and very quiet on visitors. It has also been recently repainted and refurbed as it was looking very weathered & rough around the edges.
There are tons of places to hide lol to get the sneaky pics of people if that what you like doing
Hard to choose a favourite they are all brilliant, great work
Daz
Pete Askew
Admin
Great shots Hamish and nice PP. I like the way you have used DoF to emphasise the scale (or lack of!).
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Cheers guys! I'm still not sure about them, but maybe that's down to feeling crap on the day ...?
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
Interesting technique you used on the day - did you set out to use the OOF foreground objects, or did the location just lend itself to that?
Either way, it gives a great feeling of almost spying on the subject
Like the muted PP as well.
So, was it as deserted as it looks - or did you wait for the hoards to pass before taking each shot?
Either way, it gives a great feeling of almost spying on the subject
Like the muted PP as well.
So, was it as deserted as it looks - or did you wait for the hoards to pass before taking each shot?
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Yeh, mostly set out to get a bit of out of focus area in shot ... Wanted them to look a bit mysterious ...
It was quite quiet, but I did avoid shots with people as most were wearing clothes that would have looked out of place with the look I was after ...
Still not 100% sure about these really ...
I might come bak to them yet ...
Thanks for the comments though
It was quite quiet, but I did avoid shots with people as most were wearing clothes that would have looked out of place with the look I was after ...
Still not 100% sure about these really ...
I might come bak to them yet ...
Thanks for the comments though
Pete Askew
Admin
Looking through them again Hamish, that last shot could be made really spooky with a vignette and a strong BP or similar. Maybe a bit of a yellow tint to give it that Hammer House look. What do you think?
Darren Bradley
Well-Known Member
Those are some nice, straight lines, mate!
I quite like the mood you're going for, actually, and they remind me a bit of the treatment I like to give to my photos in PP. But you used a lot more vignetting and foreground blur to frame your shots than I generally do. It works well here and I agree that it does add to the mood - gives them a bit of mystery.
I'm always disappointed when I see pictures of Portmeiron and people aren't wearing the outfits from The Prisoner TV series...
I quite like the mood you're going for, actually, and they remind me a bit of the treatment I like to give to my photos in PP. But you used a lot more vignetting and foreground blur to frame your shots than I generally do. It works well here and I agree that it does add to the mood - gives them a bit of mystery.
I'm always disappointed when I see pictures of Portmeiron and people aren't wearing the outfits from The Prisoner TV series...
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Yeah, I went a bit ott on the pp I think ...
The shot framing was the intention from the get go though
I had a visitor guide full of photos of te place that did it justice as a tourist attraction but not much else
I'm still going to revisit these I think, I don't think I have quite got what I wanted from them yet really!
I'm plead you aprieciate the attention to straight lines matey
Funnily enough, avoiding converging parallels actually helped me find these more unusual perspectives. I have always had a thing about getting straight lines, but as I said since seein your shots it's become a rule for me ... Bot sure if Rhys a good or bad thing really ... ?
The shot framing was the intention from the get go though
I had a visitor guide full of photos of te place that did it justice as a tourist attraction but not much else
I'm still going to revisit these I think, I don't think I have quite got what I wanted from them yet really!
I'm plead you aprieciate the attention to straight lines matey
Funnily enough, avoiding converging parallels actually helped me find these more unusual perspectives. I have always had a thing about getting straight lines, but as I said since seein your shots it's become a rule for me ... Bot sure if Rhys a good or bad thing really ... ?
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
I don't want to sound like a tit, but im really suprised these are so well received ...
I still feel they need work!
But I'm really chuffed people like them
I still feel they need work!
But I'm really chuffed people like them
