Warsaw by night

I was in Warsaw last week delivering a presentation, I had only one night in the city and my generous host offered me a whistle stop tour of the old town in the rain after taking me out for dinner. As usual my gear was a 5D Mk2 and a wide angle lens (16-35mm in this case) The slight wetness to everything really helped with the low light as the buildings had a sort of reflective "sheen" to them.












































































































































The image above is a memorial to the president and his wife, killed in a tragic air crash in Russia earlier this year.

Steam Fair

I recently visited east London for a quirky festival in Victoria Park and was surprised to find one of the only touring "steam" fairs operating. A "steam" fair is a funfair where the rides (well some of the rides) are powered by steam.. Carter's was immaculate - styled in 1930's to 1950's artwork it almost came across as an echo of Empire days long gone..

Dublin

I just got back from two great days in Dublin training with my friend David Newton for Canon Ireland, we covered both HD Video on the first day and flash photography and digital retouch on the second.

As I was delivering the retouch bit I had to grab a few snaps before presenting, I quickly nipped down to the gift shop to get some humorous props - an apple and a tiny squeezable "stress pint" - despite the stupidity of the subject matter the model did a great job and I got a few images I was happy with - lighting tuition from Dave here - one speedlight through a brolley from the top left.

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Candid!

Few Scottish Black and Whites

I'm in Dublin at the moment doing some work with Canon Ireland and Adobe but before I nip out for a Guinness I thought I would drop a few more black and whites from Silver FX Pro, Scotland has some really breathtaking landscape and I can't wait to visit again next month..

Riga

Last weekend I was in Riga in Latvia, the city has some of the most beautiful architecture, I have only had a tiny amount of time to process the pictures but I have a few to share now:

Black and White

I have been unable to blog the last few weeks owing to an intense work schedule including the UK iPad sales training and the Adobe CS5 tour - both encompassed a ridiculous travel schedule and very little time to take any pictures..

Before I post the best of the lot I will share a few black and whites that have been sitting in my photo library.

These are a few of my recent black and whites, the first two from Ko Phi Phi in Thailand and one from Jumala in Latvia, all processed from colour RAW's in Silver FX Pro from Nik software - a truly incredible plugin suite that has consistently given me great black and white images with its flexible tools. I added digital ND gradients to the top Thailand image and the Latvian photo and used a combination of control point masking and photoshop levels to get the crisp rocks in the second picture.