Church Interior HDR

I took a trip to Akaroa last weekend trying to get some images for this weeks diploma task, in the process I took a number of bracketed sets intended to generate HDR tone mapped images. Unless the light is very strong I generally take 5 images with one exposure between each image. I then process [...]

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West Coast Trip

Last weekend I took a trip over to the West Coast of the South Island, I have only been across a couple of times and in neither case did I have time for much exploration. The weather was mixed but I enjoy a sunset on the way. On Saturday a travel north from Greymouth to [...]

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Kaikoura

Just before the kids to Kaikoura for the weekend. The kids really like it there, playing in the rock tools fishing and so on. A lovely place, quite busy in the summer with tourists and visitors. One of our favourite places is South Bay which changes in character with the tide. With the water out [...]

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Remember to reset your settings

I have been taking a lot of images lately, I had a lovely trip to Lake Tekapo last weekend which was beautiful, a perfect sunset. The sunrise was not so good, thick fog but still interesting for other types of image. I took all sorts of images using lots of different settings, changing metering, changing [...]

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Monochrome HDR

I’ve just been playing with some more of my images from London and thought I’d give monochrome HDR a go. I have seen quite a few on HDR Spotting and quite like the effect. The following is a 3 exposure HDR processed with Photomatix and then converted to monochrome using Silver Efex Pro (which I [...]

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