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RPS Region Events February Tour
Really pleased to be delivering a five day lecture tour for the Royal Photographic Society up in the North East in February 2013. See RPS Region Events: February 2013 Itinerary
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Building an Image – Northern Lights Deconstructed
When I’m doing a lecture, people often ask about how to do a particular technique. I don’t consider myself to be a Photoshop expert, so I usually give a name to the process, e.g. “layer mask” and suggest they put that term into Google and come up with a tutorial somebody has done on that process! There are some great tutorials out there to help you get started. So, for my Christmas Greeting this year I have built a Northern Lights e-card, based on a web tutorial at this link, though I didn’t quite follow the process in the tutorial, preferring to use the techniques I generally work with. I…
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Pentax K5 IIs First Impressions
Christmas came early in Saddleworth and I was very pleased to take delivery of the new Pentax K5-IIs two weeks ago and gave it a first try-out on commercial clients’ jobs over the following couple of days. It’s a while since I upgraded my camera and I was pushed into this purchase when a piece fell out of my K7 lens mount a couple of days before, leaving me a bit vulnerable if a client needed a job doing at short notice. Some of the features of the K5 IIs 16.28 MP CMOS Sony APS-C Sensor In-camera stabilisation ISO range (expanded) 100-12800 (80-51200) AF System SAFOX X 11-point with -3 to…
