The Peak District at sunset. Nikon D800, 24-120 lens at 75mm, ISO100, 1/5" at f/16.0. Tripod and soft ND grad filter. Yesterday I received an email that’s made me question this blog (again). For a long time, I have run a separate blog and website. Originally because the website hosting company I used was useless; … Continue reading The Final Friday Image
Today I was going to share an image of the Franz Joseph Glacier. But having published two mountain images in the past two weeks I decided I wanted a change. Looking through my recent collection of images from New Zealand I picked this image from Punakaiki with its famous pancake rocks. Fuji X-T2, 10-24 lens, … Continue reading Friday Image No.202
View from the Hooker Valley trail, New Zealand. See text for camera settings and processing. Last week I shared the first image from my New Zealand trip.It was a mountain scene from a trek I did along the Hooker Valley. For today’s Fridayimage I want to share another scene from the same trail. In all … Continue reading Friday Image No.201
Mount Sefton from the Hooker Valley trail, New Zealand. Fuji X-T2 with Fuji 18-135 lens at 46mm. ISO200, 1/640" at f/11. Handheld. My last post was back at the end of September. At the time I said I was taking a few weeks out but didn’t explain why. Now that I’m back I can share … Continue reading Friday Image No.200
Langdale Valley, The Lake District, Cumbria. Nikon D800, 24-120mm lens at 35mm. ISO100, 1/10" at f/18.0. Kase Wolverine 0.6 ND Grad, Polarising Filter. Tripod Mounted. Did all you Fuji users see it? Phase One released a version of Capture One exclusively for the Fuji. You won’t though be able to use it with all your … Continue reading Friday Image No.199
Fuji X-T1 with 10-24mm lens. ISO200, 1/10" at f/8.0. 0.6 ND Grad filter. Tripod mounted. I’m going to start by apologising for showing this image. I have shown it in the past, well a similar one anyway. The reason I’m sharing it again is that I’ve been experimenting further with Alien Skin Exposure X4. I … Continue reading Friday Image No. 198
Yew Tree Tarn, The Lake District. Nikon D800, 24-120mm Nikon lens at 70mm, ISO100, 1/6" at f/9.0 Exposure from Alien Skin is one of my long-time favourite processing tools and yesterday they launched Exposure X4. I’ve already got my upgrade and I can see a few enhancements and new tools. You can find out more … Continue reading Exposure X4 Launches & YouTube
Wastwater, The Lake District. Canon 5D MKII, 24-105L lens, IS)50, 1/10" at f/16.0. Handheld. For this week’s Friday image, I’ve decided to share an image I shot back in March 2010. Yes, it’s taken me just over 8 years to get around to processing this one. But that’s not the reason I want to share … Continue reading Friday Image No.197
I haven’t posted much on the blog in the past couple of weeks. I’m quite short of time at present and the blog’s unfortunately taken second place to other important activities. I’m therefore going to change the direction of the blog a little. I suppose this goes back to my post at the end of … Continue reading Future Blog Posts and Sharpening Tutorial
I do hope you aren’t getting tired of these Peak District and heather images. The season for shooting heather is past us now but I still wanted to share another photo. I captured this in the Peak District, just above the Surprise View car park. I couldn’t resist the clump of heather, trees and bracken … Continue reading Friday Image No.196
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