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Another challenge I came across today is one from a blogger I follow on WordPress called Cee Neuner. Her photography challenge is Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: #21 Landscapes. ESSAY Keep your horizon level. We talked about this during our…
Today in my WordPress Reader I came across a post by a blog I follow by Julie Powell and she had written a post about a Photography Challenge set by Hugh of Hugh's Views & News called Distance. So I thought…
Face is this weeks subject for photo challenge set by WordPress Daily Post. And so I thought I would create an oil-looking painting in Photoshop of a photograph that I took at Knole, near Sevenoaks in Kent earlier this year, of these lovely little…
I don't know about you but there are times when you think you have taken the perfect shot, only to find when you are back home and importing your photos into Lightroom that the image you've just imported it is not what…
Today I read a tutorial by Leanne Cole about reflections and how to add them to your photographs. So I thought I would give it a try with a photograph we took back earlier this year when we visited Maidstone.
This week I set up a reminder to enter Leanne Cole's weekly photograph challenge of Monochrome Madness. It is a weekly theme where you can submit a monochrome photograph and Leanne will host it on her blog. My picture for…
Julie Powell who supplied the photograph for this month's photography challenge, has on her blog, a tutorial for creating twirls. It was by luck that I found this tutorial. And luckily Laura Macky decided to use this technique for her…
It is that time of month again, when we enter the monthly Photo Challenge held by Stacy Fischer of Visual Venturing... called One Photo Focus. I wanted to create a dreamy looking photograph to this wonderful house.. so I did…
Last year we visited Quex Gardens near Birchington in Kent... and I took this picture of a white flower that was planted within the walled gardens. The exposure was all wrong and it was far too bright and I didn't…
This is my entry for the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge - Half-Light. The photograph was taken of a walkway bridge at Maidstone in Kent.
For the last couple of months, real life has been hectic and I haven't had time to process many photos or take part in Stacy Fisher's monthly photo challenges. This month I was determined to submit an entry for One…
This week's theme is Time... the picture above depicts the change in time that winter brings to leaves that were once green and vibrant and full of life.
One of the places that we love to visit is Sheffield Park Gardens, and since the car park changes at Wakehurst Place, it seems Sheffield Park Gardens has a hell of a lot more visitors than we've ever seen before.…
One of the very first places we visited when we started to take up photography was Bodiam Castle in East Sussex. It is a lovely place to visit and the steam train leaves Bodiam for Tenterden very regular... so whilst…
A few weeks ago I watched a video about how to create a sunset glow in Photoshop and thought I would give it a try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cc9-iQBMSI Even though I didn't go as extreme as the video showed me how to...…
It is that time again for Stacy Fischer's One Photo Focus Photography Challenge, and this being the last one for 2015.... my god where has this year gone. I can't believe it is December already. I wanted to create something…
Doesn't a month soon fly by... before I realised it, it was already the end of October and time to think about the November Monthly Photo Challenge set by Stacy Fischer of Visual Venturing. When I first looked at this…
Yes it is time for Leanne Cole's Monochrome Madness Week Number 29 post.... I missed last weeks entry ... MM 2-28, which I am annoyed with myself about... but I thought I would get this weeks entry to her rather quick...…
Just the other day I stumbled across a Photo Challenge hosted by Stacy Fischer of Visual Venturing. The challenge is to take a photograph submitted by another photographer and process it in your own style. The original photograph (set of…
Well you have all guessed by now, my forte in Photography is fine-art... I love adding texture and I love playing around in Photoshop. But one of the things that I find hard is masking, especially when you get a…
As many of you may have gathered, lately I have been doing a lot of photographs of flowers we have taken and added a black background to them. Yes you could use Photoshop, create a black background and then mask…
You can read the full tutorial about Using the Lightroom Adjustment Brush to add Dimension to a Landscape Photo by clicking here
I had read a post about reverse processing on another blog.... and thought I would give it another go. The reverse processing image came out pretty good except for the sky... It was dismal and had no drama to it..…
Now I don't know about you, but I have to keep my original photos on an external drive, due to the size of my photograph library... Lightroom is great for this because you can build smart previews of your original images and Lightroom allows…
Yesterday I produced a photograph of a snowy landscape and added an effect to the photograph to make it look like it was snowing... Today I wondered if there was a way I could take a photograph I took ages…
For this Week's Photo Challenge - Silhouette, I thought I would enter a photograph we took back in July when we visited the New Forest. We sat on a hillside and watched the sun go down and as we were about…
As part of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture, I have used the above picture as the texture of the brickwork gives a nice backdrop to this sole yellow flower amongst a mass of purple flowers.
Entered as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers - Taken at Upnor Castle, Near Rochester in Kent.
Reculver Entered as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge - Relic
Another tool in Lightroom I use regularly is the graduated filter... again you have many options with this tool, including exposure, contrast, tint, temperature and you can even add colour. But one thing I found with the graduated filter tool…
