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Curating your own photography

Posted: March 14th, 2014 | Tags: | Posted in: General, Photography, Tutorials

Curating your own photography is a difficult thing. You take your entire collection of “keepers”, potentially thousands of images, and condense it down into a very small collection of around 15 that say the most about you, and more importantly, about you as a photographer. In my opinion …
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At the end of the pier watching the aurora.

Aurora borealis over Wick

Posted: March 1st, 2014 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

On the evening of the 27th of February I (and most of Caithness) saw some of the most fantastic displays of the aurora borealis ever! Unfortunately I was engrossed in episodes of Lilyhammer (check it out, it’s fantastic!) and only found out about it at around 10 p.m when …
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A before and after of an image I processed in Adobe Lightroom

Why do photographers edit images?

Posted: January 29th, 2014 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

Just the other day on Facebook I read something that annoyed me a little bit. It was on a Facebook Group called “Scotland From the Roadside“, and read: Love this page but the unedited photographs that haven’t been enhanced need way more appreciation IMO It made me think …
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