I’ve recently got the bug to take more photos with by iPhone 3G, rather than fixating on using my DLSR. Using a camera phone can be less intrusive in some situations. This scene just took my eye as my young boy was playing with Star Wars characters. I added a little bit of tilt-shift, and [...]
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Lovely morning in Attenborough
March 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Photography
I took this photo on my iPhone 3G – not a fantastic piece of photographic kit by any description. I used the excellent Instagram iPhone app to process the image. This app has a tilt-shift feature that lets you add fake depth of field, and I used that to blur out the trees in the [...]
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Playing with Light
January 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Photography
The Christmas break this year gave me the opportunity to play around a bit with long exposure shots. The bottle picture on the right is the best of my experiments, and is a single 20 second exposure with minimal post-processing. The set-up was easy – just an empty bottle of wine, a darkened room, a [...]
More exposure blending
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Photography
Following on from my previous post “Something from nothing“, this image uses a different technique to blend an overexposed sky with a detailed foreground. I nearly called it “Something a bit better from a little bit more”. This post is shorter than the earlier article, and hopefully less coma-inducing as a result. The photo was [...]
Tags: canon·layers·Peak District·Photoshop·post-processing·RAW
Something from nothing
January 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Photography
This image came out of nothing, and I’m not sure if it is cheating or not. With a pretty poor original photo (see below) I changed the colours, messed with the contrast, blended different parts together and airbrushed out some bits that were spoiling the shot. Which got me to thinking: at what point does [...]
Perfect Puddlejump
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Photography
This is one of my favourite photos that I took last year. After the heavy rains in the summer, I took my son down to the local nature reserve in his full waterproofs, knowing that big puddles would be too much of a temptation for a five year old little boy. As you can see [...]
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Photosynth goes live!
August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Computer Graphics, Photography
About a year ago I wrote about the Photosynth technology from Microsoft that creates 3D spaces from collections of photographs. At the time it only worked with a few sample data sets created by Microsoft, but there was a very nice demo to download and it was a pretty exciting piece of tech. Just a [...]
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3 Peaks Challenge – Part 2: The hikes
August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Google Earth/Maps, Life, Photography
In this second article on my recent 3 Peaks challenge I describe the hikes themselves and the transits between the mountains. See Part One for a description of the challenge. My personal times were: Mountain Start Summit reached Back at base Distance Ben Nevis 5pm 7-50pm 10pm 10 miles Scafell Pike 4-30am 6-30am 8-30am 6 [...]
3 Peaks Challenge – Part 1: Overview
August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Photography
On the weekend of June 20th I took part in the national Three Peaks Challenge to try and climb the three highest peaks in the UK mainland within 24 hours. Starting off at Ben Nevis (1344m) in Scotland, I also climbed Scafell Pike (978m) in the Lake District, and ended up at Mount Snowdon (1085m) [...]
Flickrvision – A Very Cool Flickr Slideshow
July 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Google Earth/Maps, Photography
Something that caught my eye on the Digital Urban blog was a reference to a fantastic little website applet that shows Flickr slideshows with a difference. Called Flickrvision, it shows a near-realtime view of images being uploaded to the Flickr online album website, overlaid on a map of the world. You can overlay the pictures [...]
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