Quick shots from the beach
I’ve been pretty busy recently, so it was nice to have the chance to get out over the weekend and in the sunshine no less and shoot some fun pictures. My sister and her husband have a new pup, called Remy, who isn’t the easiest target to photograph. With such strong backlight off of the sea and with fast movement, getting anything remotely right is pretty difficult. So I was pleased to get these shots of my daughter Evy, whilst she was playing with Remy. All manual focus, using an OM 50 1.8
This is also my first blog, using my old Smugmug blog to link to. With the change over to this website, I had started to upload blog images to here rather than Smugmug. Now with a bit of reorganising I’m back to using the old Smugmug blog to power this one. Sounds confusing, but sort of makes sense to me anyway 
Ice Forms
A couple more shots, capitalising on the cold weather gripping the UK at the moment. These two icicles were shot using a +2 macro diopter on on my ZD 40-150. Converted to Black & White and given the cyantone tint that I’m loving at the moment. Post processing in Silkypix.
Icy debris
The whole Europe seems to be shivering with cold at the moment. Here in the UK, we just had a dusting of a few inches over the weekend. I was out with my daughter sledging and on the way back took a detour along the beach. While the weather was bleak, there were some interesting snow formations on the sand to shoot. Here are a couple from yesterday. Hopefully I will get a chance to shoot some more before it all melts away..
Quick and easy HDR
I found a great little piece of software a while back, called HDRtist. It comes as a free and simple faux HDR package or you can buy the “Pro” version for not a lot. While PS and other editing software has plug ins a plenty for this sort of thing, HDRtist just does what is wrtten on the tin. Quick, simple and very easy HDRs and HDR fakes from single images.
It will open Raw files directly, so no need to go round tripping through a conversion first. Here are a couple I did the other day, from the same beach session in my last post.
Low tide breakwaters
Had my first day of 2012 shooting yesterday. The tide was out, leaving some pools on the beach. Tried a few different spots, but this was my favourite of the bunch. Raws processed with Silkypix, which I keep going back to for Black and White conversion.
