West Yorkshire

I decided to buy an all day bus ticket to explore the more rural areas around West Yorkshire, and take my Canon Digital SLR with me. Unfortunately, I did not come across any particularly unusual or interesting scenes, but still managed to capture some of the scenes which appeared to be pretty typical of areas such as Wakefield and Chickenley. I took the photos using the 'raw' setting, so I was able open them as .NEF files, which are a lot easier to edit. I opened them using Adobe Bridge and altered the exposure, temperature, contrast etc.






Editing the photos in this way also can turn a really dull, dark photo like the one I took below in to a much clearer, brighter one. I did experiment with changing the ISO and shutter speed, but it was an extremely over cast day any way, so none of the photos were particularly successful.





Cropping is another tool that can turn these pretty mundane photos in to something with a sightly better composition. I don't have an eye for making beautiful or thought-provoking photos out of standard, every day found scenes. So editing definitely is necessary.