Beamish village in wide-angle
I’ve added a few pictures from our recent holiday in the North East of England, some of which were taken at the Beamish Museum. This…
Photography
Macro photography – small skipper butterfly
This is another in my macro photography series, and this time features a small skipper butterfly. I took this picture in the priors wood area…
Macro photography – Hoverfly
My favorite lens for macro photography is my 90mm Tamron f/2.8 and this picture was taken with that lens on my Pentax K5 in August…
RAW shot recovery in Lightroom
This post covers the importance of shooting in RAW format when it comes to trying to recover pictures from badly exposed images using Lightroom, or…
Clarity adjustment in Lightroom
I use the Adobe Lightroom post-production software for making adjustments to the RAW images I take on my Pentax K5 DSLR. I originally used Apple…
Beamish – another view of the church
This is another view of the same church featured in my last post. This was taken from the Engine Yard next to Pockerley Manor where…
Beamish – walk to the church
This is a picture I took during our holiday to the North East of England last month. It is the pathway walk to the village…
Moving pictures in Lightroom
I’ve been finding over the last few months that the hard disk on my mac has been filling up and I decided this evening to…
Hexham Abbey in black and white
We visited Hexham recently and during the visit went to look inside Hexham Abbey. Naturally I had my camera with me and took a few…
Panorama effect from wide angle
I took this picture of the centre of Durham using the 10mm setting of my Tamron 10-24mm Super wide angle zoom. Once I imported the…
How much should we post process ?
I’ve been taking photographs for many years. First with black and white film, then colour film and slides and now with a DSLR. Although processing…