Put simply, we got more ‘context’ on how the geography of the place fit together. The clear skies meant we had views through the mountains and even out to sea that we hadn’t been aware of before. This time around we had something quite unexpected: three days of glorious sunshine and temperatures in the high 20s.Īll our hiking was done on familiar routes, but the weather transformed the landscape. We always go to Snowdonia prepared for varied weather-there was one particular visit a few years ago when we packed crampons, ice axes… and shorts (and we made use of all of them on that trip!). We based our hiking around routes in the Ogwen Valley and near the towns of Beddgelert and Llanberis that, whilst not as iconic as some of the other areas in the park, would still give us incredible scenery to photograph. Anticipating this, we planned our trip around some of the less popular trails. Snowdonia was just how we remembered it-but a lot busier! With international travel still limited, many people, it seems, are choosing Snowdonia for their staycation this year. We were keen to get back onto the trails we knew well and loved, but we also wondered if we could reapproach the landscape with ‘fresh eyes’ and perhaps create some new work there that we could really get excited about! It’s a place we both love very dearly and have a definite connection with, and it’s a place where we’ve made some spectacular images in the past.Īs lockdown restrictions eased in 2021, we found ourselves able to visit Snowdonia again for the first time in well over a year. Snowdonia, in the North of Wales, is a place we have been visiting together for years. However, we still prefer to finalise our work in the studio on our calibrated Eizo screens, so we’ve recently added the desktop version of Affinity Photo to our toolkit and can now fully finish images using Affinity software.
PANORAMA STITCHER ADJUST FOR PARALAX SOFTWARE
There’s no doubt that Affinity Photo for iPad is a very powerful piece of software and, combined with the power of an iPad Pro, completely capable of everything we likely need to do with it-even when working on high res, multi-layer files. “Our work is not about a literal recording of what we’ve experienced in a place, but rather, it’s about communicating our emotions or how we felt when we visited that location.” In fact, we see it as quite the opposite! Our work is not about a literal recording of what we’ve experienced in a place, but rather, it’s about communicating our emotions or how we felt when we visited that location. We might just have a few hours to create images in a certain place-and often, that’s somewhere we haven’t visited before.īasically, we’ve become used to working with what’s there-but we don’t see this as a problem at all. When we are travelling, we often have a tight schedule to stick to-this is especially so when working on commercial projects. This isn’t how most people experience landscape photography.
There’s nothing wrong with this, and many fine images are created this way. There’s an idea that a successful landscape image is created through meticulous planning: the photographer has studied the geography of the place and knows exactly what time of day-what time of year, even-they need to be in place, with their camera set up to capture the scenery and light exactly as they want to. There are a lot of preconceptions-myths, almost-about how landscape photography should be done. They kindly documented their experience and post-production process and even recorded a fascinating Creative Session which you can watch on our YouTube channel.
PANORAMA STITCHER ADJUST FOR PARALAX SERIES
Accustomed to using Affinity Photo for iPad in the field, we asked Fay and Matt to put the Panorama Persona through its paces to produce a stunning series of panoramic images during a commissioned trip to North Wales.
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