Verdant Vista Blog
Welcome to my blog where I intent to witter on about how I process selected photos.
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Neil.
Last updated on Sunday, January 26, 2014
I was out a week or so before this trip, almost the first time this year, to do some images for a tutorial I'm writing on how to use the very excellent Image Averaging technique I saw mentioned on Flickr.
Last updated on Sunday, August 18, 2013
Ben Starav
(Original Processing)
Ben Starav
(New Processing)
This is an interesting photograph for me because initially I completely missed the composition! When I returned from the trip – which had been fairly wet and uneventful, photography wise, I’d skimmed through the shots. This didn’t really leap out at me. I’d done my normal DRI processing but wasn’t impressed with how it turned out.
Last updated on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Many moons ago I read a Q&A with New Zealand landscape photographer Andris Apse. Among the things he talked about was, and I paraphrase, the importance of not deciding which image to keep until months after it was shot and processed. The idea being that you're likely to be more critical when you don't have the same emotional connection to the piece because you've just spent lots of time working on it (shooting and processing)
Last updated on Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Organisation for this trip was a bit of a disaster if truth be told. I set my alarm for 4:45am intending to go to Dunbar for a sunrise at the old harbour. Sadly I forgot to actually turn the alarm on!
Last updated on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
I use WXTide32 quite extensively in my planning for seascapes. I used to use the BBC tide tables but it's not the best for longer term planning plus it's fiddly to use!