Chatham Historic Dockyard (3) - Event Images

Here is the last of three posts from our Camera Club visit to Chatham Historic Dock Yard. These are some general images from the day that I particularly like.

Chatham Historic Dockyard (2) - Victorian Ropery

While we were at the Chatham Historic Dockyard we took the time to visit the Victorian Ropery. This is still a working rope makeing company and to quote their web site it is



The worlds only working traditional rope walk to survive from the age of sail.

See http://www.thedockyard.co.uk/Plan_Your_Day/Ropery/ropery.html

The rope walk is a 1/4 mile long and when we visited we had it mainly to ourselves. The light was very low and I decided to push the ISO of my camera up to 128000 and shoot in camera HDR hand held.

The Canon 5Dmkiii takes 3 shots, saves the individual shoots and produces an in-camera HDR image in jpeg. I normally don't do a lot with this combined file and work with the individual files in NIK HDR EFex Pro2. However the shots here on this blog are all from this in camera jpeg file with a bit of adjustment in Adobe Lightroom. I will probably get round to processing some of these files in the NIK software but I was quite impressed with the results from the jpegs.

My fascination with rope making stems from the 25 years I spent as a Scout Leader. As a Scout Group the children loved making large wooden structures from logs and lashing them together with ropes. Their favorite construction was always either a ballista or a rope bridge across a stream. Good fun.

No I did not write my name on the wall

Chatham Historic Dockyard (1) - 40's Weekend People Pictures

The Cambridge Camera Clu visited the Chatham Historic Dockyard on the 20th September. I must be one of the last CCC people to publish a blog on this event.

The Day was a 1940's Themed event so there were lots of people dressed up in the clothes of the time. This blog is about some of those people. I decided to convert the photos to Monochrome using NIK Silver Efex Pro 2 and then give a sepia tone in Lightroom. If I had thought about it I would have toned in Silver Efex at the time I did the monochrome conversion ...... Hindsight is a perfect science.

I quite like taking photos of people but still cannot call out to get eye contact. We had a judge the other day at the club who defiantly marked people photos down which did not have eye contact (unless the subject was looking at something or someone).

I have mixed feelings on this. To take a photo of someone who is unaware of you can bring out character whereas when 'You call out' the person often poses. I suppose what you need is for the person to become aware of you at the moment to take the picture. That way its un-posed and has eye contact. HayHo I just love taking photos :)

I have put Links to other CCC members blogs at Chatham at the bottom of this post.

This pram was made in Switzerland

End of a tiring day?

Phil Miles
http://philmilesblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/chatham-dockyard-1.html
http://philmilesblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/chatham-dockyard-2.html
http://philmilesblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/chatham-dockyard-3.html

Ann Miles.
http://pin-sharp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/chatham-dockyard-architecture.html
http://pin-sharp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/chatham-salute-to-40s.html


Paul Horrell
http://alianther.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/chatham-details.html
http://alianther.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/chatham-docks-salute-to-40s.html

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