I'm pleased to announce that my latest book “Topaz Detail for Landscape Photographers” has been published on amazon. The book is very much in the style of my previous releases. It's concise (around 170 pages), well illustrated (130 screenshots) and geared to helping you understand how to use Topaz Detail effectively. The book covers the … Continue reading Topaz Detail for Landscape Photographers
If only it had been in focus
Regular readers may know that I have a 7.5mm Fisheye Lens for my Micro 43 cameras. Whilst it doesn't get used all that often, it's a great lens, very well priced and is incredibly well made. If you haven't seen one check out this link on Amazon (http://amzn.to/1QyJzUJ) and take a close look at the … Continue reading If only it had been in focus
Friday Image No. 51
This weeks image is another from my walk on Monday where the weather was perfect for Infrared. The image was shot with the EM5 Infrared converted camera. Processing was then caried out using Nik Color Efex, Silver Efex Pro, Analog Efex and then back into Color Efex. It was a bit of an experimentation in … Continue reading Friday Image No. 51
The Weather for Infrared
If you live in the UK and enjoy Landscape Photography you will have noticed that the light is growing more harsh and the time of day for shooting great Landscapes is becoming more restricted. At this time of year you often find yourself need to be shooting landscapes at either end of the day or … Continue reading The Weather for Infrared
No Friday Image
It's a Bank Holiday weekend in the UK and I haven't had chance to post the usual Friday image. We have had friends staying with us over the weekend but I still wanted to share an image. This is one from my recent trip to Nantes to see my daughter. I can't recall what this … Continue reading No Friday Image
Lightroom 6 Panorama Feature
One thing that I love to do is shoot panoramic images. I have an XPan Panoramic film camera and for digital I have a number of tripod attachments that allow me to shoot sequences of images for stitching. What I also do a lot of is shoot “informal panoramic sequences” where I hand hold the … Continue reading Lightroom 6 Panorama Feature
Installing Lightroom 6
Last week saw the launch of Lightroom Creative Cloud 2015 or Lightroom 6 as most people seem to know it as. On paper the upgrade didn’t look too dramatic with the exception of a new “Merge to…” option which could produce HDR images or Panoramic images. Despite this limited benefit I decided to install the … Continue reading Installing Lightroom 6
Friday Image No.54
For this week's image I thought I would share a Panoramic. This was captured as four images using a Canon G16 compact camera. The resulting stitched image is approximately 21" x 12" at 300dpi. The stitching was done using the new Lightroom 6 (Creative Cloud 2015). All I can say is that I'm now addicted … Continue reading Friday Image No.54
Don’t do this if you shoot film
A couple of weeks back I had a clear out in my study. I have shelves full of books and decided to throw out many of the older ones. I also have stacks of old note books full of random jottings so I pulled out and ripped up all the used pages. It wasn't until … Continue reading Don’t do this if you shoot film
Interesting Infrared Process
I have been experimenting with the image from my new Infrared camera and identified a rather interesting look that can be achieved in Nik Color Efex Pro. You can see the finished image above and shown below is the starting image following RAW conversion and white balance correction in Lightroom. The next image shows … Continue reading Interesting Infrared Process
The Lightweight Photographer 