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March 5, 2013
Photoshop has many options when it comes to removing or repairing detail in an image. The clone stamp, healing brush and patch tool all allow us to repeat or repair pixels by covering or matching areas. However, they all tend to alter texture and are only effective tools when they have source detail to clone from. So in a image where you want to preserve texture and clone with minimal source data where do you turn?
To the…
March 2, 2013
Any photographer sooner or later needs a strategy for backing up and archiving their image collection. Here are several tips I've found useful in creating a simple but organised photography archive -- which should be the goal of any backup structure.
What's in a name?
Naming conventions for files or folders are central to creating an organised image archive.
Adding descriptive information to a file name makes its identification easier in the long run…
February 18, 2013
A winter's sunset over a cover near Woolacombe delivered just the conditions I'd been after at for a while. Having visited the area around a few years back, I'd been struck by the potential for landscape photography in the numerous bays and coves along this stretch of the Devon coast.
Woolacombe's long (faily photographically boring) sands are flanked by numerous coves, all full of tidal pools, giant rock stacks and jutting black shard like mountians of ancient…
January 18, 2013
The Rule of Thirds is arguably the most widely known composition technique, as well as commonly being held up as the most powerful approach to creating strong compositions. I took several of my most popular images from my 500px collection and reviewed them against the principles Rule of Thirds to see if my most popular images followed any of the principles of this compositional holy grail.
The concept, I’m purposefully going to steer clear of the word rule from here on in, is based…
December 29, 2012
Whilst digging around my photography archive, I found some street photography taken during a trip to Cuba way back when in 2008.
Wandering around the side streets of the Habana Veija in the Havana Old Town, there are countless colourful characters, so I dug out my high school pidgeon Spanish, made a few cadjoles with the Canon 300d and dabbled with a few portraits give our travel plans didn't take us through the countryside for any landscape action.
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