Category Archives: before and after

A quick photo for Facebook

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2014-07-23_0835 2014-07-23_0836 2014-07-23_0837 I try and support local business and events when I can, so when the Roebuck announced a music festival I thought I would share it on Facebook. First a new picture of the pub would be in order so I pop up town on a sunny day to take one.

Here is where the problems started, the sun (or the pub) were in the wrong place, leading to a dull picture, the normal advice of going back at a different time only applies to people with nothing much to do with their day, so I took the shot knowing a bit of processing was in order to jazz it up a bit. read more

HDR photographs

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I have wanted to write a post on how to create HDR images for quite some time, in fact since the last post on this blog in September last year, but when i got around to researching the subject i found that there are loads of very good tutorials out there. So instead of spending loads of time just rehashing the same subject i thought i would do something a bit different.

When i first stumble across a new technique in photography it is usually not in the form of a how to guide, but just a random image with no explanation of how it was done. So my first step is to Google it. In the case of HDR images loads came up on the search and a few lead to some great how to articles. read more