Filey Panorama

I am always looking for new techniques to try in my Photography and this is from my personal passion rather than the business angle. Panoramas are something I have wanted to try for a while but never got round to doing it. So when on holiday recently on the east coast I took a series of photos whilst on the Filey beach. It was a family holiday so hadn't brought my tripod which I have always assumed unnecessary for a panorama, so instead I used the centre focusing point in my view finder and kept that on the horizon line in order to take the series. Then I loaded all the photos into Photoshop and used Photomerge to create the panorama. I love the result and hope you do too.

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It's lovely being out for a lazy summers evening walk

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Another visit to the zoo

We are family member of Chester Zoo and it's one of the best things we ever did. Going to the zoo for a day used to be a bit of a chore. We had to set of early to make sure we got there in good time, and then once there we always tried to see everything in one day and in my opinion that is impossible. Becoming members has meant we can go as often as we like and whenever we like. By going as often as we do we don't try and see it all in one day, instead we take it nice ans steady and take in what we do see. The girls love the zoo and get excited every time we go, which is rather handy as we love the zoo too.

When we go to the zoo it's always a treat for me us as we get to combine our love for animal and photography at the same time.

Here is a selection of photos from our trip.

Web Site Restucture

Content matters and that's why we've trimmed our web site down a bit. We are photographers and so we have included more photos and less text.

We know that prospective slient want to see our work and then read about us so we have made that the focus of the site.

Also, the packages & prices page has been revamped and the wedding section now lists our 3 core wedding packages with prices.

Enjoy the new(ish) site.

Howarth 1940's Weekend

This weekend just gone we all set off to Howarth to visit, for the first time, their 1940's themed weekend. David had wanted to go ever since seeing a photo taken there that was publiched in Practical Photography and as it only happend one weekend in May each year it's been quite a wait. Of course as David has been ill with tonsillitis it was touch and go weather we would go or not, but in the end we made it.

Workflow and me

Some people might question why a photographer might give away secrets like workflow but my response to that would be that I am someone who likes to pass knowledge on rather than keep it to myself.  Kind of like the film "Pay It Forward" I believe that ultmiately I will benefit by passing knoweldge on and make the photography world a better place.

First of all I have to point out that this is my workflow and this is what works for me.  It might not work for you but it might give you some pointers on developing your own workflow.

I am a Canon shooter but I don't use the Canon software; I useAdobe Lightroom for importing, cataloging and most of my aediting and adjustments.  Occassionaly I will use Adobe Photoshop for further editing that is beyond Lightroom.

So here's my general workflow:

1. I import the photographs


2. I mass keyword groups of photos that were from a particular shoot, occassion or outing.


3. I will now run though all the photos from the set and either flag a photo as a "pick" ([P] key in Lightroom)or "reject" ([X] key).  As a general rule I will flag any photo that is out of focas or badly composed as reject and mark any acceptable image as a pick.


4. I now apply a filter in lightroom to only show me the "pick" flagged photos.  I then move carefully through the filtered set and rate any image that I deem to be worthy of further work as a 1.


5. I then apply a further filter to show me all my 1 star images.  This is where I will now spend time on each image in the Develop module making small adjustmentsto each image and then making further larger adjustments (be it a crop or changng to black and white).


6. If I feel the need to take an dimage to Photoshop I will give the image a colour flag (i.e. Red).  After making the minor adjustments in Lightroom I will visit each Red image and export it to Photoshop.

This is a general outline of my workflow and rom time to time I may alter this for a specific project or photo set.

Good morning...

Good morning everyone!


This is just a quick post to show off a photo taken by my 4 and half year old daughter.  In my last post I showed off a photo of her in action and here's the reverse of that photo.

I am planning to take her out with me the next time I got shooting wildlife.  She's follow me round with her little compact camera and hopefully she get some great shots because she is a natural.