How do you do that?

I'm occasionally asked how I achieved a certain result given the prohibitive conditions at the time, so I thought it about time I revealed a few of the techniques I use.

This image taken on Skye on a grey day in December 2008 was achieved using a method called exposure blending. The camera was set up on a tripod, in manual mode and 5 exposures taken, from well over exposed to well under exposed.

After processing in Lightroom with no adjustments, they were blended together using Photomax Pro. This gives a result which is far from finished, but a glance at the histogram tells me that I have all the detail in shadows and highlights and therefore have everything I need to make a half way decent picture.

The final image after a bit of retouching in lightroom and photoshop

New Portraits

Smith of Derby have been making clocks for hundreds of years. They also service and restore them, Big Ben included. Here are a few portraits of the people involved.

Norton Motorcycles are now being made in a purpose built factory at Donnington Park grand prix circuit. Stuart Garner bought the name from the American owner last year and the famous old marque is back on the road again.