I have seen a few images lately, both at my local camera club, and also online, where people have added “artistry” to an images by blending in unrelated images as layers and then editing the results in Photoshop. I have been living with this image of Idsworth Church on my photo frame for a while; […]
Yesterday I visited Kimmeridge in Dorset with a couple of friends from our Facebook photowalking group. The tides were right but unfortunately the weather was dull and overcast. Though this was supposed to break up late morning it never did. As expected this resulted in some rather flat raw files so I had to consider […]
Yesterday’s trip to the New Forest was my first photography outing of 2023. However, the weather did not rise to this auspicious occasion and remained dull, Gray and flat all morning. That meant woodland landscape photography was out of the question so I wandered around looking for a suitable alternative subject. I came across a […]
Today I went to the New Forest, to a place called Bolderwood. Bolderwood is a popular place so I got there just as the sun rose, though the weather was grey and overcast with spots of rain. Bolderwood is famous for two things; its arboretum and the deer sanctuary. I was not there for deer […]
A quick post comparing various editing software and their ability to open a Raw file to give a good start to the editing process.
We are having some fun at our camera club at the moment as we struggle to get to grips with new technology. Some of our members are old hands at the new skills we have had to develop and some are finding the transition a little more difficult. One of the issues causing the most […]
I have been experimenting with using plugins to manage publication of images to various online systems from Lightroom. Whilst Lightroom comes with some excellent tools already, you might want to check out the plugins created by Jeffrey Friedl. These amazing plugins make automation of publication unbelievably simple. Take a look, you’ll wonder how you managed without them… […]