The Power of Printing

The Power of Printing

Being a photographer in the digital age can make you lazy. It’s all too easy to take hundreds and thousands of images and do absolutely nothing with them, leaving them to lie abandoned in some obscurely named folder on the remotest part of your hard-drive. As...
Woodland Workshop

Woodland Workshop

Woodland Workshop I’ve spoken in the past about how stepping out of ones comfort zone and doing something completely different, call it continuous professional development (CPD) if you want. Well, nothing could be more of a contrast to shooting macro and still...
The Journey Continues

The Journey Continues

As you all know, I am predominantly a macro photographer with a passion for flowers and insects and occasionally dabbling in Photoshop. In the past I used the odd texture to make the backgrounda little more interesting and it that originally was it. Whilst creating my...
Adding a border in Photoshop

Adding a border in Photoshop

There are occasions where you don’t want to add a mount to an image but still give the illusion of one being there. This can be done in Photoshop by extending the size of the canvas to create a border and then adding a keyline to distinguish the two. Open the...
Associate Qualification

Associate Qualification

Associate Qualification – Creative Category I’ve been a member of the Royal Photographic Society since 2010 and gained my Licentiate a few months later. In the past year I have become the organiser for the Distinctions Advisory Days for the Western Region....