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05 Mar

A Mid-Week Photo Walk with a Difference

Last weekend I headed onto the local moors for a longer walk and some much-needed exercise. When you usual walk around 15-20km over sometimes quite steep ground, walking around the village for an hour doesn’t keep you fit. During the recent restrictions I’ve found...

26 Feb

I Now Know Where This Is

Last week I shared an infrared image that I’d recently found on my hard drive, but which wasn’t in my image library. This week I’m sharing another image that I shot a short distance from the last one. In fact, if you look at...

17:08 / Digital Photography / infrared / Nik Collection / youtube video

05 Feb

Black & White Photography has me Fascinated

This past week has seen me finishing the layouts for the print version of my Affinity Photo How To book. This afternoon I hit the publish button and with a bit of luck, the print version will be on sale on Amazon within 24...

17:41 / Black & White / black and white / Digital Photography / Fuji 18-135 / Fuji XT2 / Landscape photography / on1 photo raw / peak district

29 Jan

Making the Most of the “Bad” Weather

Whilst I haven’t done any photography this week, mainly due to poor weather, I have been processing some old images. What I realised whilst doing this was that I had a nice collection of local images, captured in we photographers like to call “Bad...

17:29 / Digital Photography / Fuji 18-135 / Fuji X-T2 / Post Production / saddleworth / video / Vision / youtube video

23 Oct

Some (interesting?) things to Share

If you’ve been reading this blog for the past couple of weeks you will know that I became frustrated by the quality of my Fuji images. The result was that I purchased a micro 43 camera. A Panasonic G9 to be precise. I’ve now...

16:27 / Digital Photography / DxO Photolab / Image quality / Panasonic G9 / topaz sharpener

07 Aug

And this Weeks Image is…

Limestone Pavement above Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales (shot 2011)This week I wanted to share a black and white image that I’ve just processed. I shot the original image back in 2011 using a Canon 5D MKII with 17-40 L series lens. I had the...

16:54 / black and white / Digital Photography / Landscape photography / nik silver efex / Silver Efex Pro 2 / youtube video

17 Apr

Freestyle Photo Editing

My usual approach to photo editing is to have a clear finished image in my mind before I start. I like to focus on this finished image to get it as clear as possible in order to plan out the change I’m going to make....

16:47 / Digital Photography / Padley Gorge / peak district / photo editing / trees

28 Feb

Nik Collection 2.5 Launched

Pools of light on Formby Beach at Sunset. Processed using the new film simulations in the Nik Collection 2.5Have you seen the news? There’s a new release of the Nik Collection. Much of the chatter is around the new film simulations in Color Efex Pro....

17:18 / Digital Photography

07 Feb

Cold Snap in The Peak District

Frosty conditions on Higger Tor, The Peak District. Fuji X-T3 with Fuji 10-24mm lens at 11mm. ISO160, 1.4″ at f/13.0 tripod mounted and 0.9 Soft ND Grad on the sky.This winter the weather hasn’t been very wintery here. In fact, I think I can count...

16:43 / Digital Photography / higger tor / Landscape photography / mask problem / masking / outdoor photography / peak district / photoshop

10 May

More Landscape Photography from the Scottish Highlands

Lake Assynt, Scotland. Three shot panoramic with a Fuji X-T3. See below for full description.Today I wanted to share another image from my recent Scotland trip. I suspect there will be a few more yet to come. Originally, I had intended this to be a...

17:57 / Digital Photography / Landscape photography / Nik Collection / Nik Collection 2018 by DxO / Scotland