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Blue Bells

No signs of spring yet but these blue bells from 2008 were normally the first flowers to appear in our old garden. I applied sharpening to the small focused area and reduced the clarity in the rest of...

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Nottingham World

This world was made from a 360 degree panorama. Read this to find out how to make your own planet. The biggest problem with making planets out of city panoramas is you need to be far enough away from...

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Cuba Chevrolet

I shot this beautiful car in Cienfuegos in Cuba. This is my first attempt at using the Orton Effect. At this point I must mention the very cool photoblog zOOm and thank Florence for sharing this...

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Orange Burst

This is my most popular stock photo. It has been accepted at five agencies. Putting the same image at different agencies is a common practice as the photographer keeps the copyright to an image whoever...

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Petra Siq

This is the siq on the way to the Treasury in Jordan. To process this image I used Photomatix to produce an HDR image. I then layered the HDR with copies of the original image using various blending...

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Valentine Rose

This is a rose from our old garden in Nottingham. I used a time saving trick to desaturate the greenery. Normally you would add a Hue/Sat layer and cut out a mask to get this effect. Instead I added a...

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Sphinx Pool

This was our hotel pool in Dahab, Egypt. I used a tripod and a 30 second exposure to get the lights to sparkle. To process this image used a colour balance layer to make the pool a nicer shade of blue....

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Wind Surfer

This is another shot from Dahab in Egypt. The sun was in the wrong place to illuminate the surfer so I reduced the contrast with a curves layer then used a mask to boost the saturation of the surfer. I...

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Amman Night

This was taken from our hotel in Jordan. I used a Nodal Ninja to get the shots needed to make the panorama. I stitched them together using Panorama Studio. To process the image I used the Orton Effect...

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Syracuse 1926

Ciao ai miei lettori italiani. I’m not sure why this blog has had more visits from Italy in the last month than any other country. Especially as I’ve never photographed Italy. All I can offer is this...

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Cairo Museum

This red building is the back of the Cairo Museum in Egypt. I took the shot from the street looking up. I used Photoshops Filter>Distort>Lens Correction to restore the perspective. Making the...

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Caribbean Coast

This was taken on the West coast of Jamaica in a place called Negril. The Photoshop layers I used to build up the image are below.

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Ocean Rocks

This image from Jamaica is one of my very first stock photos. I received an automated email from dreamstime agency saying “image has been online for more than 4 years with no downloads up to the...

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Cuba Buick

Karen shot this 1950 Buick on the streets of Cuba. To process the image I used a similar technique to Cuba Chevrolet. I started by using the Orton Effect to give it a bit of a glow. I worked on the...

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White Desert

This shot of the White Desert in Egypt has become my fifth Enhanced License sale.  The original image had a very narrow tonal range giving it a dull greyish look. It is situations like this where it...

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Volcanic Sunset

I heard the sunsets would change now we have a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland drifting over us. It was a clear night so without high cloud there was no red in the evening sky. These are the...

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Peacock Butterfly

This Peacock Butterfly was sunbathing outside our house.  To process the image I developed it using photoshops RAW developer. Once in photoshop I blended in layers to desaturate the background and keep...

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50 Matrix

This is the 50th post since the blog changed to its new format. WordPress has proven to be a powerful and flexible solution and the Reflections theme had the style I was looking for. This matrix of...

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Shetland Pony

I remember thinking this Shetland Pony was carrying a little extra weight. The mystery was solved when she introduced this new foal to us. To process this pair of images I used 3 adjustment layers to...

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Llyn Llydaw

This is Llyn Lldaw on the way down from the Snowdon Peak in Wales. To process the image I used Vibrance instead of Saturation to bring the colour out of the bleak landscape. I then used various masks...

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