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Playing with Light
I was meeting up with Bondwoman for a drink prior to going to a fiddle concert last Friday evening, and as I was somewhat early and had my point and shoot camera in my pocket I thought I would take a...
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Playing with Light 2
This post is very much a follow up to the previous post. I was reading some stuff yesterday about negative images, and how they can be interesting in themselves. Now as an artist I am very much aware...
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Rescuing a Rubbish Image
Using a Neutral Density Gradient Transforming a quite ordinary image straight from the camera is quite easy to do with just a few easy adjustments and the application of a neutral density gradient to...
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From the Mundane to the Artistic
I find it quite interesting in these days of digital imagery and manipulation that it is so easy to transform a quite uninspiring photograph into something with quite a high degree of artistic merit....
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Changes
I thought it was about time for a few changes here to reflect that I am no longer posting solely about artistic matters, but more about the ways in which digital media (cameras and manipulation, in my...
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Collages in Photoshop
Collages in Photoshop CS5 This is a tutorial about how to create collages in PhotoshopCS5, the method should work equally in CS4, but I am not sure about earlier versions of Photoshop, the finished...
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Shadows and Steps Recovered
Shadows on Steps a Tutorial Ok a short description of how this was achieved, for those who have asked:- This started life as quite a mundane colour image with very little going for it, as you can see...
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Light and Reflected Light
Light Tutorial Sometimes I end up with a colour image that I am quite pleased with, but think that it could be improved somewhat, as with this image:- The idea here is right, it just lacks proper...
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Double Exposure Tutorial
Here I want to demonstrate a quite simple method of achieving a double exposure effect. I am using Photoshop, but the same techniques should work in most good graphics packages. First I open the two...
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Changes
I am in the process of making a number of change to this blog, taking it down a much more minimalist route. This will involve the deleting of a few posts that are no longer as relevant as they were at...
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Deletions
I have taken the unexpected (on my part) step of deleting all of the content that was here. This has been done because of a minority of people constantly, depsite my warnings, infringing my copyright....
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