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Carlton Mitre
This was the venue of my cousin Nikki and Paul’s Wedding reception. This shot of the Carlton Mitre was taken from the bridge. I tried a few settings and found a 1/6sec produced the best results getting...
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Purple Aubretia
This Purple Aubretia was shot at londonthorpe in the UK just over one month ago. I used Camera RAW to process the image.
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Nile Fishing
This was taken near Luxor in Egypt. The image was processed using Photoshops Camera RAW developer. The effect was created using the inbuilt split toning feature in Camera RAW. You access the panel by...
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El Qasr
This is part of the ancient desert capital of Bahariya which is in present day central Egypt. The scene had a very wide range of tones and looked a little dull. In order to capture the detail one copy...
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Ladybird Spot
This simple use of spot colour is achieved by painting black on the layer mask of a Black & White layer. The Hue/Saturation layer above was used to make the ladybird nice and red. It was a little...
View ArticleFive Pups
These puppies were photographed on a family holiday to Wales in 2010. They are either Border Collie Sheep Dogs or Jack Russell Terriers. If you know please leave a comment. The main task for this image...
View ArticleEnhanced Ride
This shot was taken in Bournemouth when Karen and I were on the Great British Poker Tour. It has just sold as my eighth Enhanced License. These licenses allow the image to be used for unlimited runs....
View ArticleWelsh Pub
This is another shot from a family holiday to Wales last summer. I can’t remember the name of the pub but if you recognise it please leave a comment. Photoshop gives you many ways to make black and...
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Evening Fishing
This was taken at Rutland Water in 2010. As with most images these days I used Camera RAW to do the main processing. Camera RAW produces higher quality images than If you did the same adjustments in...
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Edible Asteroid
This image shows what you can do by compositing images in photoshop. I started with a shot of me biting into a ball. This shot of the moon was added on a layer above and a mask was applied to reveal it...
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Braunston Village
This is Braunston in Rutland, UK. It is a beautiful old English village. To make it look a little older I removed all the pylons, wires, concrete and tarmac. To add some colour to the sky I used the...
View ArticleCamel Smile
This was taken in the Bahariya Desert in Western Egypt. Although I have spent the last three years using Photoshop to flatter the subjects of studio images some shots are beyond even my ability to make...
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Swimming Pyramids
This was created by compositing three separate images. The Pyramids of Egypt, The Seas of Dahab and Rutland Water. Many adjustment layers and masks were needed in an attempt to balance the shot as each...
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Jet Surfer
This jet surfer is a composite of four images. The desert dunes of western Egypt, A kite surfer from Dahab, The moon from an earlier post and a methane engine I found on this site. Unlike the last...
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Montego Sunset
This sunset was shot in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It was taken in 2004 with an early digital camera EX-Z3. In those days memory cards cost 240 times what they do today. In fact the two 256MB cards I used...
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Rose City
This is the Rose City in Petra, Jordan. To process this image the Recovery slider was set to 100. Normally this adjustment is used to recover detail lost in the highlights. In this image the highlights...
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Hassan Rifa’i
These are the Al Hassan and Al Rifa’i Mosques of Cairo in Egypt. The image was created from two separate exposures stitched together in Photoshop. A mask of the sky was made to add some blue however it...
View ArticleFloyd Riot
This composite used a photograph taken by Kerim Okten. I knew as soon as I saw this image online it would be one of the defining images of the London Riots. Sure enough it was used by The Daily Star,...
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Snowdon Route
This was taken on a family holiday to Wales in 2010. I used Camera RAW to process this image. I like to show what setting I use for each post unfortunately “Print Screen” does not record anything when...
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Amateur Advantage
This lucky shot was taken on the way home from the Ferry Meadows firework display. The only reason the four figures are not blurred in this 1 second exposure was that they stopped for a moment while...
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