There are so many amazing sea side towns in Cornwall and St Ives is one of those!  As the weather warms up more and more people are heading to the beach and St Ives has a perfect little beach harbour! Crystal clear clean water and perfectly flat, so no good for Aussie surfers!  Here is a simple photostitch of the little harbour at St Ives. I used 3 photos in this photostitch and collaborated them using Photoshop’s built-in photo-merge. Doesn’t the water look great!

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Little Seaside Harbour

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Anyone who has lived in a big city will understand, “sometimes you just need to get out to the country side!“. I have seen too much of big cities and endless buildings. It was about time to get out and see the country side. I Had a great few days exploring Cornwall! The weather was great and the scenery was fantastic and the air was clean! Here is the first, and favourite, of my photos from Cornwall, England. It is a HDR (HDR Photography) of a lovely little stone jetty in a small seaside town called Clovelly.  The jetty was very photogenic and I couldn’t help but take several of photos of it! Over the next week I’ll add more Cornwall Photos to the Gallery but for now you can have a few pictures of Clovelly and its beautiful jetty. More…

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Little Stone Jetty

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I finally got around to taking some night-time pictures of the river Seine. I haven’t been taking many HDR images lately so it was a good opportunity to take a few. HDR photography is definitely one of my most favourite photographic techniques and I am hoping to make a simple tutorial soon! For now you can get a quick understanding of what it is from my HDR Crash Course.  I really enjoy capturing  the reflections of the lights across the water.I will need to keep an eye on the weather and do it again sometime as I missed some great shots because the sky was quite messy.

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I had a chance to get out of the city the other day, went about an hour outside of Paris to a massive forest. It was great to get some fresh air and to wonder through the trees! I was hoping to find some signs of spring to photograph but I was a few weeks to early! Despite spring not being here yet I still had a great time and found a couple nice shoots in the forest. The sun was shining through the trees making the whole forest look amazing! More Paris Photographs >>

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A couple of weeks ago I spent a weekend in London. I really like London, great place with tons to do and see! I took a few touristy shoots and some turned out very nicely. I wanted to setup and do some HDR’s but I ran out of time! I’m sure ill get another chance to explore that city and find some really great shots!

It was looking like winter had finished and I was going to miss out on the snow! But just a few days ago some cold weather moved in and we had a good bit of snow, here in Paris. I grabbed the camera and headed straight for the iconic Eiffel Tower! I know its generic and touristy but there’s just something about it. I had to fight the conditions as it wasn’t gently falling snow it was windy harsh snow. The other problem I ran into was how to capture the snow in the photograph without everything looking white and blurry? I settled for a HDR set-up (as I’m really into HDR’s at the moment) where I used the HDR image along side post-processing techniques to bring out as much detail in tower as I could.  HDR Crash Course >>

In the end I am really happy with how the images turned out. I especially like how the photograph depicts the snow and the poor weather conditions. Here is my other shot from the opposite side >>

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HDR Crash Course (Part 1)

HDR or high dynamic range is simply an image that has very high dynamic range from darks to lights. When you take a photograph your camera does its best to capture the full range of colours but alas cameras are not as good as the human eye and can only capture a certain range.

For example if you take a picture on a nice sunny day you may find that the sky is a wash of white. Instead the sky should have been filled with clouds. The same goes for the darker colours. (Of-course this also depends on what your camera has be set to, or focused on) The point is cameras can only capture a certain amount of the colour range(from Dark to Light).

HDR is the process of taking multiple images at different exposures and then combining them to create an image that has a “High Dynamic Range”. In other words creating an image that has more accurate & sharper blacks and whites, without compromise. To create an HDR image, you would take at least 1 x underexposed image (black image), 1 x normally exposed image(as the image should be) and at least 1 x overexposed image(white image).

You would then combined the 3 or more photographs in HDR software like “Photoshop’s HDR Pro” or “Photomatix“. Hopefully the end result is an image that has a lot of extra colour and details.

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Great HDR Tutorials:

>> In-depth HDR tutorial by Photographylife.com

>> Advanced HDR technique tutorial by Dave Morrow

Lately I have been taking a lot of HDR(High Dynamic Range) photographs. HDR photographs are great because it gives me more control over the details and colours within an image. This is important because my aim is to creatively add emotions and feelings to my photographs. I want the viewers to not only see a great photo, but also see the things that are important to me within an image.

This particular shot is of the Pompidou Centre Framework at Chatelet. Its current showcase is a modern art exhibition . As you can see it is a very interesting building with many angles and colours. I tried to capture as much of the interesting framework as I could. I also used the high contrast of the night-time blacks to bring out the intricate white steel spider web of the buildings framework.

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All weekend it tried its best to snow in Paris but the weather only managed to make everything cold and wet! No wonderful snow photographs of Paris for me! Time to warm up, this photo I snapped when I was crossing a bridge in Venice. I wasn’t searching for a great shot, I was just exploring. Its great when you accidently stumble into beautiful photo opportunities. Although I must admit that when you are in Venice there is no shortage of amazing photo opportunities.

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I really loved Amsterdam! All of the boats and houses on the canals are truly amazing! The shot below has some great reflections that I didn’t even notice until post-processing. I am now a lot more aware of water and the reflections on it. More Amsterdam shots here