RNLI Porthcawl.

Today the RNLI at Porthcawl are naming their new inshore lifeboat, here are a few pics of it.

Won again.

I won the competition between a few of us local togs, my prize was a nice bottle of whisky, which works for me as I do like a "wee dram" now and again, in moderation of course. I think the bottle I had last Christmas run out about a month back, so I'm not exactly a heavy drinker.

Contrast Master.

Contrast master is the last of a series of photoshop plug ins by photo wiz I have been testing over the last few weeks, basically a contrast/shadow highlight adjuster, it has quite a number of sliders making it a little confusing to use, it starts to make more sense after watching the video tutorial. In use it works well giving lots of control over the various settings. Wayne

Busy week coming.

I have a busy week lurking, 2 days with the St Johns, a training day and maybe a second one (don't know yet haven't finished sorting it out) and thats witout any editing.

Todays image, this is another scrambling one, here I went for a line drawing type effect, personally I quite like the effect, but I suspect it's not to everybodies taste. Wayne

Courious wedding.

I had a strange wedding today.
I was second photographer covering the boys, but they didn't want me at the house, just straight to the church, which is fine with me, one less place to find.
Anyway I get to the church plenty early, and there waiting is the other photographer, who I thought was supposed to be at the brides house? I did try to find out why he hadn't gone there but never did get a sensible answer.
Later on at the wedding while I was shooting with the long lens, he asked me why his camera (different to mine) has 2 settings for the shutter sync speed, I wasn't sure but guessed one was the minimum speed the camera would set with flash in program mode. He then proceeded to experiment by altering it.... now it's not a great plan to experiment actually during the wedding, after all you don't get a second chance. If you do decide to experiment, it really helps if you remember to put the settings back BEFORE the cutting the cake, unlike this guy. Luckily I half anticipated this problem and shot alongside him, just as well as he'd set 1/15 th of a second shutter speed with flash, so a double image sort of, the ambient light being bright enough to give a secondary exposure with the movement.
The final oddity was who ate the best mans desert, I mean who would scoff a blokes strawberry gateau while he was at the bar, I can't say here on a public blog...... but it was jolly tasty!

Michael Jacksons funeral.

It's good to see that Michael Jackson's funeral was a purely family affair, well except for all the TV cameras and family hangers on that is. Trust them to turn even that into a 3 ring circus, wasn't the memorial service enough of a media event for them.
Disgusted Wayne

Moody black and white.

Here are a couple of moody black and white shots of a church I took today, I'm feeling a bit moody so these fit nicely with my mood.

Wayne