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Simon Hawketts' Photo Blog
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A blog about photography and other things
  • Beamish village
    Family

    Beamish village in wide-angle

    22 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • Small skipper butterfly
    Nature

    Macro photography – small skipper butterfly

    21 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • Macro photography – Hoverfly
    Nature

    Macro photography – Hoverfly

    20 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • RAW shot recovery in Lightroom
    Post Processing

    RAW shot recovery in Lightroom

    17 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • Clarity adjustment in Lightroom
    Post Processing

    Clarity adjustment in Lightroom

    15 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • The church in Beamish Village
    Family

    Beamish – another view of the church

    14 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • Walk to the church
    Family

    Beamish – walk to the church

    14 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • Post Processing

    Moving pictures in Lightroom

    11 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • Some black & white pictures taken in Hexham Abbey - Three arches
    Family

    Hexham Abbey in black and white

    6 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • Panaroma Effect
    Landscape

    Panorama effect from wide angle

    2 September 20131 March 2023

    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…

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  • How much should we post process ?
    Post Processing

    How much should we post process ?

    31 August 20131 March 2023

    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…

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