I always like a challenge and one of the ones I like to tackle is looking out of a dark space towards bright light. Often I might use a pair (or more) shots to merge into an HDR image, but another approach might be to use Exposure Lock on the shadow areas and work on …
This must be one of the most photographed lighthouses in the UK. I must have shots from at least three visits to it. So, the challenge was to try and find a different view or perspective to take it from, and make use of the early afternoon May light. The tide was out revealing rock …
There was something about this view that somehow made me think “there’s an image there, if only I can find it”. So in post-processing I did just that, I cropped it, and enhanced the sky a little and got the image I wanted. I published it to Flickr … However, I got the comment that …
Volunteering to do a short spot on focus stacking at a u3a afternoon Photography session yesterday, I showed the following sequence of pictures of some orchids using a tripod and a macro lens … [Please note I didn’t edit the images prior to applying the software which I should have done. I could have removed …
A double dose of moonshots this spring and the chance to improve on the Snow Moon shots I took earlier in the year – and this time from the relative comfort of the loft. I took the opportunity the night before of using TPE (The Photographers Ephemeris) to see where and when the moon would …
There’s not much that I need/want to do in post-processing that I can’t do in Lightroom, but with the latest release of Photoshop 2021 two features have been introduced which have introduced a “wow factor”. Both are upgrades to the Adobe Camera RAW engine (which sits under both Photoshop and Lightroom), but neither are available …
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I’ve dabbled with HDR over the years, but it’s never become as fundamental a part of my photography as perhaps it should. So … spurred on by a U3A project, I’m going to share with you three photos that got the High Dynamic Range treatment in Lightroom. But before we get there you need to …
With this shot, I’ll have caught-up. It’s been a relatively barren couple of months for my photography … I’ve tried and notably failed in taking pictures of the moon, but the advance notice of the appearance of “the snow moon”, plus a completely clear sky lured me (in the cold) on to the field with …
My annual photo book is now with the printers but you can view a PDF version of it from this page, together with earlier years. All of these are available in eBook format as well for iPad or Kindle – all I ask is that you subscribe to the Blog and I will send you …
A lovely sunny day and I had to catch-up on my U3A “homework” – taking photographs which could have the category “shapes” attached to them. I was however distracted by the discovery that I could walk past the BBC Porth Teigr studios and alongside the Roath Basin – one of Cardiff’s largest former coal docks. …