Cage fighting pics #1

Bit of a late night last night at the Cage Fighting Muai Thai and MMA event in Wrexham 

Started at 6.30 and didn't finish till 23.00 ! Needless to say my back was in bits by the end of this 


A very enjoyable night with great respect between these athletes . I shot with flash at this event for the first time yesterday , I don't normally as I don't want to put anybody off but nobody seemed to mind so I got some nice pics 


I shot in 3 different ways . Without flash just using ambient light , with flash and normal shutter speed , with flash  and with slow shutter speed and ISO . The results are massively different . I'll be posting more later when I get chance but there is a basic Idea of what I have done in the above pics 


Enjoy !


As well as a thoroughly entertaining night the bonus was I never got bled on ( As has happened every other time ) . Bet if I wasn't prepared with wipes and spare shirt I would have been covered in sweat and blood !!!! Ha ha




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Talacre Beach

Talacre Beach North Wales

I took a nice long walk along Talacre beach in the sun this evening made me feel sooooo much better


First day this year I have been able to wear shorts and shirt and not be cold .... Roll on summer


Although the lighthouse is a great focal point I think it has been done to death and it's a bit harder to get a different angle on it. Not really now but later in the summer there is so much wildlife and insects near . I would love as well to get a pic of horses with their riders in the sea , that happens quite often as well .


Most images  all images were taken with my Holga £12 lens and Canon 40D

Big Weekend highlights # 3 as shot

As Shot

First glimpse of the above pictures and you may think I have churned them through several filters in photoshop and changed the lighting / colour balance .  The truth is much simpler..........

Big Weekend highlights # 2 The DJ's

Radio 1 DJ'S

As I have not really looked at the photos of the Big Weekend Bangor since last May I forgot just quite how much material I have . Rather than post too much I think I'm gonna have to have some themes today's being DJ'S at the event . Try Guess them all Here's the list :

Aled Haydn Jones, Chris Moyles, Edith Bowman, Fearn Cotton, Greg James, Jo Whiley, Pete Tong . ., Scott Mills, The Big Dog, Tim Westwood, Trevor Nelson, Vernon Kay, Zane Lowe and Wales' own Huw Stephens 

 Probably could have spent a bit longer piecing it together but finding the pics has already taken me since I got home from  actual work

MORE HIGHLIGHTS TO COME SOON .................................

Big Weekend highlights # 1

Florence And The Machine and Rhianna

I will have a sort through some of my fave photos from the Radio One event last year that brought so much publicity and famous musicians to the area . Over the next few weeks I'll be posting more pictures of the celebs ( Well it will be good for the Google search hit rate with all these pics of celebs on my Blog . I think Rhianna and Justin Bieber are welded in the top 10

It was such an exciting 2 days working there and the weather was scorching ( Hotter than Ibiza ) the whole weekend . More updates and celebs coming soon ( Not that I'm a massive celeb person myself )

The Feeling

The Feeling ( Just to save confusion these guys were NOT in Bangor )

I took this photo a while back now of a  band called The Feeling

I like to only really blog recent stuff . I just needed to upload an image to see if the Nokia application was working as photos wee not showing on the application( Over 2000 users of the application last month .... sweet ! Search 'Cymru' so far my app is the only one with that tag word  ) . Today the blog has had visits from as far afield as Mauritius , Guatemala and Saudi Arabia . Not bad for something called 'Welshphotoguy' I think it must be Wales' universal appeal


Anyway this was a job in Llandudno of all places . It was actually a very good concert and great atmosphere . I went to watch The Kooks play live there a few weeks later it was still a great concert but the atmosphere was a little off

Will have to sort through my Radio One Big Weekend Bangor stuff soon and post them . Nearly a year now since I covered it .  

As close as you can get to fish without getting your eyes wet

These are them crazy feet sucking pedicure fish that seems to be all the rage now . Eating the dead skin on your feet . Not sure if I'd want to do it . Quite hard to get a nice photo of someone with their feet in the tank with these fish without them looking like a Hobbit

Prestatyn seafront

Prestatyn seafront big blue light

This place marks the beginning of the Clawdd Offa ( Offas Dyke ) trail from Prestatyn to South Wales . Back in Roman days this dyke marked the border between Wales and England

Lighthouse Llanddwyn Island Anglsea

Lighthouse on LLanddwyn Island ,  Newborough Anglesey taken today with my Holga toy lens on Canon 40d . This picture is as shot , not changed at all in Photoshop

More info on the place at the link below :
Lighthouse info

HOLGA

Just had a quick play on my Holga Lens on my SLR . You can't get things processed this quick with film . I think I may get the backs up of a few Analogue purists with this one . I need a bit of more experimentation the results I will publish . ( The lens is Plastic and made for film cameras and the price of this nifty lens £12 yes twelve pound from China ) Awesome . 

I have only reduced image  size and not altered light or  colour or frame. The shutter speed was set at 8 seconds . The lines on the 2nd pic are there as it is street light coming through the window

Autofocus : NO
Manual focus : Not really
Aperture : Set
Auto WB : No
In focus : sometimes
Price : £12
Fun : Yes  !