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Quick Tip – Using The Flow Control in Lightroom
One of the sites that I regularly visit in Scott Kelby’s Lightroom Killer Tips. And this particular tip I have found very useful. The tip is about using the Flow Control when making local adjustments. In the past I have just set my Flow to 100 and then lowered or increased the relevant slider […]
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Favourite Place WordPress Photo Challenge
I have to say that the topic this week for the WordPress Photo Challenge called Favourite Place has me thinking of a place that is close to where I live.. called Ashenbank Bank Woods near Cobham in Kent. Just a few minutes drive from us is this wondrous place which brings nature to our doorstep. […]
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Rounded WordPress Photo Challenge
Finally I am getting there… I have am catching up with the WordPress Photo Challenges I have missed.. and boy was there a few. The final topic, which was last week’s topic was called Rounded. Objects which are rounded and have curves within their structure are all around us, whether it be flowers or architecture. […]
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Scale WordPress Photo Challenge
Scale is the topic for the Weekly WordPress Photo Challenge for the Week beginning the 11th October 2017, and I have only just got around to processing a photograph for this particular challenge. As I said in my previous post I have a lot of catching up to do. 😀 😀 😀 And for my […]
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Windows WordPress Photo Challenge
It is Wednesday evening and a new WordPress Photo Challenge called Windows has just been set. And to be perfectly honest the weather is dank and miserable here and my garden is not in a very good state at the moment, so I thought for this challenge I would think about the kind of view […]
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Layered WordPress Photo Challenge
Layered is the subject for this week’s photo challenge curated by WordPress. And there is nothing like the layers of branches on a tree full of red coloured leaves like this one at Sheffield Park Gardens, taken only last week. Sheffield Park Gardens is one of my favourite places to visit.. I love autumn colours, […]
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Windows WordPress Photo Challenge
It is Wednesday evening and a new WordPress Photo Challenge called Windows has just been set. And to be perfectly honest the weather is dank and miserable here and my garden is not in a very good state at the moment, so I thought for this challenge I would think about the kind of view […]
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Lightroom sluggish… some tips to speed up Lightroom
Is Lightroom sluggish for you? Well here are a few tips to speed up Lightroom. Import using at least Standard Previews (if you have enough disk space import using 1:1). This might slow down the import but will benefit you during your workflow. And not for the faint hearted – clear develop history. But don’t […]
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Waiting WordPress Photo Challenge
Honestly, that was me yesterday… Waiting to get some peace and an afternoon nap… You see the day started out with a loose kitchen tap… yes it needed tightening up and I got a phone call from hubby saying, ‘If you clear the under-sink cupboard out and find the monobloc spanners, which are in the […]
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Corner WordPress Photo Challenge
The topic for this week’s photo challenge is called Corner and you are asked to type of corner evoke emotion within yourself. Well for me it has to be corners in Architecture. Especially when you have such great architecture like the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco with its columns and the intricate mouldings […]
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Rework of a Little Egret
Back in 2016, I processed a photograph of a Little Egret which I took at Northward Hill Nature Reserve and processed the image in a blue wash. Today I decided to rework that image.. and the first thing I did was to flip the photograph horizontally. I wanted to do this image in black and […]
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A collection of old photographs
Arthritis is such a pain… and lately my hands have really been hurting and I have noticed that some of my photographs have a lot of camera shake when I am using my heavy DSLR. I love my Canon EOS70D but by the time you add a lens to the camera… boy is it heavy. […]