Severn Beach Photo joining

Severn Beach


During another cold, wet and windy day we stopped at Severn beach near Bristol to take some photographs of the second Severn Bridge. As the estuary is tidal the waves continued to lap against the beach which made it impossible to match up, but I believe it shows their movement within the image.

In retrospect I should have taken more images, especially of the sea wall and some individual shots of the log as there now appears to be one sea wall floating above the other.  To finish the skyline above the centre of the bridge and to remove the stepped image, I could have taken additional images of the sky or used one of the portrait images either side to complete the image. 

As a learning exercise to help improve my knowledge of photo joining I believe the finished image hasn’t turned out too bad.  

Fairground at Porthcawl Contact Sheets

The attached forty nine photographs are the images I took for the photo joining exercise I created for my previous blog Fairground at Porthcawl.  In my first photo joining exercise I took one hundred photographs to use for the creation of the garden image, but this time I realised during the creation I should have taken more of the sand as I had to re-use the same image a number of times.

Having taken time to look at the photos I decided that some were very similar so I decided not to use them all. Overall I am happy with them and especially the resulting view of the Fairground and beach

Fairground at Porthcawl

Fairground

This image is created from a series of photographs taken at Porthcawl beach during a bitterly cold and windy day that also had the odd hailstorm.  As I stood on the beach I initially looked towards the fairground and rotated 360 degrees towards the sea and the seawall with the town behind. In the middle of the image I am looking down at my boots to show I was there but it was far too cold to have bare feet.

Having taken forty nine photographs I decided not to use all of them even though I did use a few of the beach a number of times to help create a better perspective of scene. If you take some time to study the image closely and zoom into the bottom right hand corner you will just be able to see the two surfers and the light house, although the guy metal detecting does unfortunately appear twice as he was walking around at the time.

If I was to repeat this exercise again I would have taken more photographs of the sand as it is better to have too many than not enough, especially as I decided to create a large image from the photo joining. Other than a few small anomalies, I feel that the result is pretty good and gives a good perspective of the fairground and beach.

Garden Contact Sheet

Having taken approximately one hundred photographs I decided not to use them all as some were very similar which would have resulted in the completed file being far too large to work with and to save to my blog.