A real weekend fiesta of Spanish dance, music, food and a giant paella helped brighten an at times wet Spanish Tourist Board promo event on The Mound Edinburgh.
Spain’s principle holiday areas were there to promote a sun destination which wasn’t lost on a somewhat damp Saturday (Sunday turned out good). I was booked for 2nd year by Lotus UK the London PR agency appointed by the Spanish Touroist Board.
The wife thinks I’m crackers creeping out of the house at just after 4am as the early morning summer light is showing above the Forth.
Though I have done this later in the year as last year, in June you really need to be out and about even earlier to get skies at the right low light level to balance with the streets still in relative darkness.
The use of a tripod and firing off 5 shots at different speeds gives a range of images to be later combined into one – otherwise known as HDR (High Dynamic Range) using Photomatix Pro. Then into Lightroom and Photoshop to remove unwanted street lights, signs and chewing gum on pavements!!
Greyfriars Bobby
Not many people around other than the newspaper vans – and the seagulls having a ball with rubbish bags left out over night by careless business owners.
Replaced old knobbly tyres for road tyres on the mountain bike the other day and went for trial ride to the canal – with camera.
Time: the magic hour at sunset – result after a little HDR treatment based on one image…