New Journal 48 – A day in Seattle Yesterday we met a cool group of photographers at Kerry Park. Some of them mentioned how they hate it when a photographer writes in the 3rd person. Since they hate it, I’ll write today’s article that way. Jimmy sat, overlooking the skyline, watching the pinks in the […]
New Journal 47 – Writing an E-book and making plans As some of you may know, I’ve been in the process of writing an ebook for about 9 months. Progress has been slow. It’s going to be an HDR guide teaching everything from Luminance masks to tone mapping with 3 different programs. My aim is […]
New Journal 46 – American Hospitality From East coast to West and anywhere in between, our American road trip has been characterised by two things: Photography and hospitality. In every single city we’ve visited, local photographers and non-photographers alike have been amazing. In our final American leg, Dave Morrow, star photographer extraordinaire, has been awesome […]
New Journal 45 – The Beard is Back Eight weeks after leaving the UK, freshly shaven and excited about the adventures to come, I caught sight of myself today in a shop window in downtown Portland. The bushy-bearded hobo that haunted the streets of Valencia 4 months ago has returned. I start out with the […]
As a blogger, it’s fairly common to be asked to review books. In 3 and a half years in the blogesphere, I’ve reviewed only one. The truth is, I’ll only give my time to authors/photographers who I respect and whose book I think I’ll enjoy. But Jimmy, you should review bad books too so we […]
New Journal 44 – A football match (soccer) in America – Portland Timbers vs LA Galaxy As the 90th minute approached, the Timbers were searching for a winner. It had been a hard fought match. Despite the best efforts of a passionate crowd who, to my naive surprise, could out sing more than a few […]
New Journal 43 – Is tone mapping dead? I received an email yesterday that was just one of many communications I’ve seen this week that has been about the same thing: the idea that surreal tone mapping is becoming less popular. I won’t use the term ‘tone mapping’ as liberally as others since each software […]
New Journal 42 – Cannon Beach My feet were cold. Despite the warm weather to be had in Portland, Cannon beach had a distinctive chill to it. I’d been wading in and out of the ocean for about 45 minutes. The conditions weren’t exactly Arctic but all I could feel was a constant pins and […]
New Journal 41 – Getting settled before shooting We’re now mobile. A brief visit to an Enterprise today and we were armed with 4 wheels. An even briefer visit to the Apple store downtown and we were armed with an ipad mini – our new GPS unit. Tomorrow our explorations of the North West coastline […]
I’m pleased to show you my readers’ renditions of the Valencia at Blue Hour image. This was part of the #hdrphotofun project I’ll be running from time to time where I will offer readers my RAW files so that they can create their own HDR versions. I’ve included my favourite at the top, which is […]