new photo site

[shinwell]

People have been pestering me for ages to get my cave photos together on the web, so here we are:

    http://www.three-tuns.net/mark/photos/

There are plenty more to come in the near future ...

- Mark Shinwell

 

[me]

Wow, Fab,  thank you  :bow:

 

[Servo]

Amazing

 

[Roger W]

Most excellent! 

 

[kay]

Most excellent!

Indeed! The cave pearls picture is very good. The only ones I've seen in situ have been rather grubby looking and not very exciting - I can see the point of them now.

 

[damian]

The cave pearls picture is very good.

Hear, hear. Anyone know where the photo was taken, or is that a secret?

 

[bubba]

Total quality Mark 

 

[anfieldman]

Thanks Mark. Really good pictures. 

 

[Coxie]

They're amazing  :bow:  What camera do you use?  Or is that also a secret? 

 

[shinwell]

Everything on the site so far was taken with a Canon EOS 400D.  Some of the older pictures to come in due course were done with a 350D.

 

[Cave_Troll]

quite a few of them look , to me, to be stuck together.
they may not be, it may just be the back flashes giving foreground cavers a bit of a white border...

 

[SeeJay]

it may just be the back flashes giving foreground cavers a bit of a white border...

That's a real lighting effect that those of us that work in 3D computer graphics spend a good deal of time trying to emulate.  It's called rim lighting and is caused by a cleverly positioned back light: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_lighting

 

[Cave_Troll]

but looking at several of the shots, for example the 2nd of the two peak cavern shots, It looks like people have been, to be frank, carelessly added on in photoshop.

 

[zippy]

but looking at several of the shots, for example the 2nd of the two peak cavern shots, It looks like people have been, to be frank, carelessly added on in photoshop.

Slightly harsh for what's actually a very good set of photos if you ask me.

In my humble opinion - Well done on some good photos - keep up the good work. 

 

[Daz_of_caving]

but looking at several of the shots, for example the 2nd of the two peak cavern shots, It looks like people have been, to be frank, carelessly added on in photoshop.

why?

Nice photos

 

[Cave_Troll]

but looking at several of the shots, for example the 2nd of the two peak cavern shots, It looks like people have been, to be frank, carelessly added on in photoshop.

why?

Mainly the difference in lighting of the foreground person + the back lighting creating a white border around the figure, makes it look like some of my early efforts at photo composting.
Most of those pics are indeed very nice, but some, like this one, just look a bit odd.
Then we have the question of what's so interesting about someone climbing the Surprise View ladder in Peak, that the other two cavers are gazing in awe and wander at the guy on the ladder.

And don't get me started on photos at a jaunty angle. I blame Mr Shone for that one

 

[zucca]

Re the novices in Peak cavern: they were almost-novices, and almost-novices, as you should know, are easy to impress  8)

Cave Troll, have you got a website, so that we can admire your oeuvre?

cheers, zz

 

[Maisie Syntax]

Then we have the question of what's so interesting about someone climbing the Surprise View ladder in Peak, that the other two cavers are gazing in awe and wander at the guy on the ladder.
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The two cavers are probably gazing in awe and wonder at the sheer suprise that their ladder is still where they left it, and hadn't been de-rigged by a local university club 'by mistake'.

 

[freefall]

The two cavers are probably gazing in awe and wonder at the sheer suprise that their ladder is still where they left it, and hadn't been de-rigged by a local university club 'by mistake'.

presumably the suprise view ladder is allowed to be there. a permit of sorts perhaps?!

 

[Peter Burgess]

People have been pestering me for ages to get my cave photos together on the web, so here we are:

    http://www.three-tuns.net/mark/photos/

There are plenty more to come in the near future ...

- Mark Shinwell

never mind what anyone else says, they are very good photographs. Thank you for posting up the link.