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 [...]
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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 taken [...]
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 [...]
Tags: 3D·photosynth
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 miles
Snowdon
1-45pm
4-10pm
7-30pm
8.5 miles
So as you can see I did succeed and completed it – I got to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: Flickr
Blog makeover
May 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps, Photography
Just a quick note to describe some recent changes to this site.
I’ve changed the template from the attractive but not easily configurable “Feather” theme to Chris Pearson’s “Cutline 3 column” one. The initial advantage of this was it was easy to set up my own header images to be my own photos rather than someone [...]
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Posing Robin
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Photography
While out walking one chilly morning in Attenborough nature reserve I spotted this Robin. Luckily for me he was in posing mood and I managed to get pretty close with my 200mm lens. The image is uncropped – I got within just a few feet of him.
I got some nice comments on the image from [...]