Category: Photography
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Monochrome Madness – MM3-27
Well time this week has been on my side and with a spare few minutes and a mind that has remembered to get the photo in before Tuesday, I thought I would do a photograph for Leanne Coles Monochrome Madness Photo Challenge. The above photograph was taken at the weekend at Great Comp Gardens, near […]
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On The Loch
Just over a week ago, I received an email from Jodi Robbins of Topaz Labs, who had seen my Duck Pond photograph; and she asked if I would be prepared to write an article for the Topaz Labs.. First of all I was gobsmacked… I couldn’t believe that I was being contacted by a renowned company […]
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Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge – Rocks
First of all my sincere apologies to Cee for not taking part in her photo challenges lately, time has been of the essence and life got in the way. Anyway, her challenge this week is about Rocks and I just had the perfect photograph for this. It is my rock hugger photograph.. it is one […]
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Topaz Texture Effects – Preinstalled Presets
For day 7 of my ‘test before you buy’ of Topaz Texture Effects 2 I thought I would take an image of Leeds Castle, with Lightroom Basic Edits and distractions (people) removed in Photoshop and apply 5 preinstalled Presets of Topaz Texture Effects 2. No further edits were carried out and none of the presets […]
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Topaz Texture Effects Comparison – SOOC -vs – Lightroom Basic Adjustments
Well today is day 6 of my Topaz Texture Effects ‘trial before buy’ challenge. So for this challenge I thought I would do a complete comparison of using Lightroom and Topaz Effects and just using Topaz Effects. This is the image I started out with… which was taken at Inveruglas on the edge of Loch […]
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Trying something new…yet again
I just love experimenting.. and when you experiment you learn to do new things in Photoshop and Lightroom. Now on this PC I have a problem the Oil Paint filter refuses to work in Photoshop. I don’t know what the problem is but no way will it play ball. And today I wanted to […]
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Leeds Castle in Monochrome
This photograph was processed using the same method I used yesterday for my Canary Wharf at night photograph. And the method being this process was as follows: Within Lightroom I took three photographs of different exposure times and opened them as layers in Photoshop. I then aligned the layers using the auto-align feature I then […]
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Canary Wharf at Night
The above image was created by stacking 5 different exposed shots and then aligning the images and by using stack mode of median, before processing in Lightroom.
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Split-Toning
I was playing around today with an image I took at Merriments Gardens in East Sussex. As soon as I saw the image I knew I wanted to create a monochrome image of this tulip… I loved the shine on the petals. Anyway after processing the image I thought about playing around with the Split […]
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Apricot Roses
One of the things I love about photography is post-processing… and taking photos to a whole new dimension. Lately I have been experimenting using Photoshop… which I am slowly becoming conversant with. The above image started out… being rather bland and lacking colour. And I wanted to make those roses more apricot in colour… […]
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Reculver Seafront – Monochrome Madness MM3-19
First of all my sincere apologies to Leanne Cole for not participating much in MM… things in real-life get in the way and I’ve not been out much lately with my camera… but that will change now…. wheelchair arrived yesterday and it is bank holiday weekend and the sun is going to shine …. I […]
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Buttercup colour flowers
A photograph of yellow flowers taken at Lullingstone Castle Word Gardens… what attracted me to these flowers was the buttercup colour of the petals.. The original photograph was shot slightly under-exposed and I was rather concerned as to whether I could bring it back in Lightroom and Photoshop… I did use my ‘Deep and Moody’ Preset […]
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