Category: Natural Lighting
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Seafarers Bride
Shot with the lovely Artemus Fauna in studio and on location, Dublin July 2016. Click on the images below for a better view.
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Success for Ireland in FIAP 33rd Biennial
Last April I got a message from Bill Power asking for a high res version of one of my images for submission in the FIAP 33rd Biennial – Monochrome as part of the IPF Irish panel entry. I was delighted and honoured to be asked to represent the country, only problem, I was in California…
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Another Salon Gold Medal
NSAPK CIRCUIT 2016 2 Country Serbia – Montenegro 4 Salons Novi Sad – Aleksinac – Podgorica – Kotor Dark Beauty Bink made DPA Gold Medal this week in Monochrome section of Podgorica salon. In addition, I received a total of 33 acceptances out of a possible 48 for the entire circuit. I haven’t been entering…
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Donabate 2016
Today all over Ireland people marked the centenary of the 1916 rebellion in public and personal ways. Some of the images I recorded today are in this gallery. Many locals dressed in uniform or costume remembering relatives locally involved in 1916. The image below was one of my favuorite portraits of the day. It saddens…
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Mayo Weekend – Part II
Up at 6am. Look out the window, cloud, and more cloud. Brain might be slow, but it doesn’t take long to decide to go back to bed! When I finally get up there is still blanket cloud cover but a glimmer of light on the horizon and the forecast for sunny spells motivates me to…
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Revisiting the landscape
Never delete images! The above image was taken in 2008, I’m only got to post process it yesterday! Back then I would not have used the same techniques and would not have been as happy with the results. It’s not my favourite image from then, but others seems to like it a lot! I’ve…
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Finding my inspiration
Since achieving my AIPF distinction last September, my model photography went into hibernation. Partly because the effort to come up with my panel had exhausted my brain, partly because my main location in the shed/studio was too cold for comfortable winter work. so I was delighted this past weekend to be back shooting with Madame…
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Letter Box Landscapes
I’m not usually in the habit of making very wide format images, but recently I’ve been asked to fill walls requiring this format so thought I’d look at some of my landscapes and see how the work. I think i have plenty more images that will work well in this format, so might have to…
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My Weston Influence
It’s hard for me not to notice the name Weston, I’m married to Liz Weston! I discovered Edward Weston indirectly through my many visits to California and Yosemite since 1989. Before I got immersed in photography as a hobby I was inspired by the work of Ansel Adams during my visits to the Curry Village…
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Seascape Blending and Editing Workflow
I’ve finally recorded a short video of my general workflow to blend some action from multiple seascape images into one final image like the one shown above I took this morning. The sun never appeared, but the high tide and breaking waves made an interesting vista all the same.
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