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Before and After – On the Ouse at York
Well, it seems like months since I did a before and after in Lightroom. So, I thought I would do a before and after (With Settings) that I used on the image below. Lightroom Settings Edit Panel Lens Corrections Panel Transform Basic Panel HSL Panel Detail Panel Effects Panel Masking Panel Mask 1 I selected…
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Before and After Challenge – 1st January 2020
Happy New Year Everyone xx We hope you had a great Xmas and we wish you a happy and prosperous New Year. This month’s Before and After photo challenge is a photograph of Llandudno photographed from the pier. DOWNLOAD FOR THIS MONTH’S PHOTO To use the image, which is in raw and jpeg, download…
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Before and After Challenge – 1st December 2019
This month’s Before and After photo challenge is a photograph of Canary Wharf taken from across the River at North Greenwich. DOWNLOAD FOR THIS MONTH’S PHOTO To use the image, which is in raw and jpeg, download the zip folder and then extract the image contained in the folder. My Edits In Lightroom, I used…
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Before and After Challenge – 1st November 2019
This month’s Before and After photo challenge is a photograph of Bodiam Castle in East Sussex. DOWNLOAD FOR THIS MONTH’S PHOTO To use the image, which is in raw and jpeg, download the zip folder and then extract the image contained in the folder. My Edits For my edits, I wanted to create a dark…
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Before and After Challenge – 1st October 2019
This month’s Before and After photo challenge is a panoramic photograph of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, which I stitched together in Photoshop. DOWNLOAD FOR THIS MONTH’S PHOTO To use the image, which is jpeg, download the zip folder and then extract the image contained in the folder. My Edits I did…
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Critiquing your own image
Must be one of the hardest things to do… I know I have found it hard. Well, let’s start at the beginning. You all know I had a hard-drive failure and one of the images I lost was one I processed in Topaz Studio and Luminar of boats at Folkestone Harbour. As much as…
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The power of texture
It was cold, it was murky and the sky was absolutely dreadful.. it was dismal and there wasn’t any clouds that gave drama to the sky… but even with the sky as dismal as it was.. I still liked the photo… so what do I do with it? Of course, at a texture and use…
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From Harsh to Delicate
I wanted to create a soft looking flower… and to see how soft and delicate I could make a harsh looking photo by using Lightroom and Photoshop. As you can see from the SOOC photo on the right, that particular rose has many petals and I did manage to get most of the rose in focus……
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Before and After Monthly Photography Challenge
One of the things I like about Photography is processing an image… I like to see what it looked like before I started to do my edits and what the final image looks like.. so with that in mind I thought I would start hosting a mid monthly photography challenge, where you can send in your…
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Sheer Drop
The above photograph was taken at Birling Gap in East Sussex, and was shot just by the houses that are very close to the cliffs edge. As you can see from the SOOC photo, there is a fence post that is rather distracting and a piece of fencing that just doesn’t seem to belong…
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Stranger on the Shore
On Friday we went to Seven Sister and Birling Gap in East Sussex… I have to say the drive down there was beautiful as we headed through the Kent and East Sussex countryside… and the views from Birling Gap are astounding. For the above image I wanted to create a dark image… with a…