Fish Was Flying Eye
The flying fish was shot during my recent visit to the Horniman Museum, the eye was painted on a wall in the partially forsaken village of Doel in Belgium, the the background is Manor House B. The image is ten layers composited together, five of these being to create the border using textures and d[......]
Article in RPS Digital Imaging Group Magazine
I was commissioned to write this article for the journal of one of the sub-groups of The Royal Photographic Society, the Digital Imaging Group, which is for members who use computer manipulation on their photographs using various available software and techniques. These pages are reproduced with kin[......]
To Willie With Compliments
This image features another of my Mum’s vintage postcard gems, as soon as I saw it I knew I had to make something further from it. The old fashioned captions on the card – ‘A present for the Kaiser’ on the front, and on the reverse ‘our grand artillerymen like to address a shell before they fi[......]
Emily / Viveca – How I Created a Vintage Portrait of Myself
This is one that I did a while back but I thought it was worth writing about the technique I used to create this image.
Emily was a relative of mine on my Mother’s side of the family, and I liked this portrait of her looking ever so slightly self-conscious,
which is how I usually feel when someo[......]
A Room With A Dog
When I saw this scene, I felt that it had the look of a painted scene, extending beyond the actual reality of the painted dog by artist Luke Da Duke into something unreal, almost like a doll’s house. I set about deliberately photographing it in a very precise way, keeping all the lines as straight[......]
Cloned Self Portraits: How I Do It
I have been asked by several online friends how I create the photos of multiple me’s such as this one below, so here is a tutorial. This is my Christmas card 2010.
I set up the tripod in the corner of the room and composed the shot, ensuring that all the places I planned to be were in the fra[......]
Leviathan
Mark and I went to investigate Cliffe Fort in Kent on Saturday, and whilst I was too much of a wimp to climb over the fence to get in (requiring walk over slippery wooden ‘gangplank’ and then a lumber over the metal pronged fence, with enough water on either side to get one thoroughly wet if f[......]
“Communication” – The Making of An Image
I have been asked by a couple contacts on Flickr about the making of this image, so once again here is a break-down of the different components used, and stage I went through to reach the finished article.
The first stage was to combine a lighter exposure with a darker exposure, so I pasted the[......]
“Summer Breeze” – How I Created This Image
Having spent all afternoon on this image, I have decided once more to share how I did it, and which individual images went into making the final artwork. I started with a self-portrait taken recently in the New Forest, using flash diffused through an umbrella, one of the first that I have ever done[......]
“Cut” – The Making of an Image
I have recently been experimenting with multiple texture overlays in CS3, to create slightly more abstract images as I start to move down the path of Fine Art Photography, and a comment from one of my friends on Flickr has prompted me to write this piece. Jeremy said “I have no idea what I’m look[......]
