Anglesea Ancient Monuments

I recently spent the best part of a week on Anglesea.
 
During the time I tried to visit as many of the Ancient Burial Chambers and Standing stones as I could.
 
As the weather was (predictably) overcast and dull, I decided to try something a little different when photographing these sites. Over the last year I have been using off camera flash more and more, although it has only been recently that I have started bringing these little strobes with me into the wilds. I've started finding them to be great little devices to add little bits of sparkle and interest in landscapes, picking out bits of detail in quite a subtle way when balanced with the ambient light.
 
Howeve, for these images, I wanted something with a bit more impact, as I knew I would be doing a lot of post production on these images, and as I was moving pretty fast through the locations I decided to compose the images using multiple exposures with different flsh positions in each frame. From these images I was able to composite 'multi flash' images using only one strobe. Compositing the flash in post also let me have far greater control over the flash exposure values and colour temperature than I would have had time to do on location.

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