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Having taken many, many photos of Caernarfon Castle from the outside, my wife Liz and I finally made it through the entrance gate and spent a fascinating couple of hours exploring the nooks, crannies, towers, stairwells, courtyards and hidden corners of this magnificent pile.
Of course, given such an opportunity I went mad photographically speaking, and snapped everything I thought would make a good image at the time.
Thank goodness for digital, as I would have wasted a whole lot of money on film and processing had I been behaving like this in the 'good old days'!
Back home a few weeks later and a review of the shoot in a calmer, more analytic frame of mind, revealed that ninety nine percent of my images from that afternoon weren't worth a light, especially those I'd shot from outside standing in the exposed central courtyard.
Fortunately for me, I'd also taken a number of frames from within the walls themselves, and although shot in technically challenging low light / high contrast situations, it was these interior photos that had much more mystery and ambiance to them than the bland snapshots taken outside in plenty of light.
This view of a stone passageway, actually inside the castle walls themselves, is a good example, with alternating patches of light and shadow making for a very attractive geometric composition.
Filename - castle caernarfon interior 04.jpg
Camera - Nikon D3100
Lens - 18-55mm zoom @ 48mm
Exposure - 1/10sec @ f8, ISO800
Location - Caernarfon, North Wales
This image - 533x800px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - -1ev exposure compensation used to preserve highlights.
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