My Other Photos

Yellow

Photo taken in the garden on one of those rare sunny days here.

Cornfield

A slightly long walk away from the house I found these fields ripe.

Sheep and the lamb

I was out with the long lens one day and captured a few shots of the sheep and their pups who were in a field behind out vet.

First snow

Hello, this is my first proper new photo in ages!! Sorry for being away for so long. Just lack of time, lack of motivation and lack of access to Photoshop CS. Hopefully I’ll be able to get a few more done before my trial runs out in 12 days time.

This was taken in the fields near my house after a we got covered in snow (for the first time in years) in February 2009. We don’t get much snow here so I made the most of it and took lots of pics.

Flickr uploads to 23rd May 2008

As something different to the batch of recent link round-ups, here’s what I’ve been uploading to Flickr in the last few weeks (click on the images to see more):

Happy family	Scenic
It’s pretty easy to take photos of the sheep found in the fields behind our local vet. They’re not… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 23, 2008 1 comment	A friend of my parents our the estate where we live took Kaz and myself up to a local forest to walk… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 22, 2008 1 comment
New Peony	Water beads
This peony popped up in the garden recently. I got it while it had a bit of sun on it (we don’t… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 21, 2008 2 comments	I thought this might be a good one for black and white and pleased at the result. I converted it in… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 20, 2008 0 comments
Do you like my new look?	Tree in the dark
A very, very muddy Kaz. It goes without saying that we had a long old scrub of the… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 19, 2008 6 comments	Untreated cold early morning shot taken in a field in Edenbridge. Please check out my … Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 17, 2008 1 comment
Long grass	Bird
This is the ‘new’ field I take Kaz to. The grass is really long so Kaz is having great fun jumping… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 17, 2008 4 comments	One of only a few in-focus (or at least near in-focus) shots taken with my long zoom lens while I… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 15, 2008 2 comments
Muddy plain	Blurred vision
This was taken a one of my long early morning walks during the winter. The farmhouse in… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 15, 2008 1 comment	A shot of my computer monitor. I can’t remember if I intended to do this or was an accident (yeah I… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 13, 2008 0 comments
Dark and dirty	Buttercup
For some reason this shot came out really dark (no idea what I did) but I went with it and created… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 12, 2008 3 comments	Sorry I’ve been away from Flickr for ages now, this is my first upload since the end of March and… Some rights reserved. Uploaded on May 11, 2008 2 comments

New photography mosaic

 

 

This is just a test post. It’s for me to check that I can blog from Flickr directly into my new blog here at Squashy Frog Photography.

By the way, this is a mosaic of some of my better photos.

Boxham Tree HDR

This is my second attempt at an HDR image. The photo shows the farmhouse at Boxham Farm in Edenbridge in Kent, UK. I took the shot while on one of my early morning walks in the local fields. As you can see it was a cold, cold morning but it’s worth it when you get such a great tree in the wonderful sunlight. Unfortunately I was only carrying my 18-50mm lens and could step any further back to get the whole of the tree in shot, so alas this won’t make it into my portfolio. But ignoring that I really like the shot and experimenting with HDR for the first time was fun. Flickr liked it too, so much so it made #11 for 22-Feb- 2008 on Explore!

The way I created this HDR (High Dynamic Range) shot was from one RAW file. I saved it out from Camera RAW to a TIFF file and created 3 images one at -2 EV, one at 0 EV and another as +2 EV (so 3 exposures, one dark, one normal and one light). I then dragged these into Photomatix, generated the HDR then tonemapped it. It took a bit of fiddling with the tonemapping settings but eventually I got the result above. The first thing I’ve noticed is that the clouds are far more dynamic but this is at the cost of a lot of added noise. I’m not sure I really like this style of HDR but it’s an interesting alternative and was fun to try. I’ll be posting a more detailed entry on how it was, so please check back soon.

The original photo is below, so please compare it.