Elvis Festival 2012, Porthcawl

New Wales Based Photographic Site

Head over to petermorganphoto for a collection of my favourite photographs ranging from people to landscapes, the images can be ordered as high quality prints directly from the site, using the services of good UK based labs.

Here's an example gallery of landscape pictures taken along the dramatic coastline of Wales:

Nikon Facebook PR blunder "A photographer is only as good as the equipment he uses..."

Crass error, most likely an intern with the social media PR firm used to update the Nikon facebook page. Over two thousand mostly angry comments.

"Do any of our facebook fans use any of the NIKKOR lenses?" asks the insightful poster. Note the "any". Completely clueless.

and the follow up comment from Nikon...

500px

Trying out:

It's a shame the selling of prints via fotomoto is so US centric.

Taking notes on the Pink Beach - Topaz Labs Plugin processing technique

Taking notes on the Pink Beach
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Created using Topaz Labs, first clean then processed again using adjust to alter exposure and colour saturation. All worked on via Aperture 3 (not layers in Photoshop). Processing things through multiple passes with the Topaz Labs plugins can produce some very rich textures and effects.

If you use a layers based application like Photoshop or Pixelmator etc. you can isolate the impact of effects by employing a layer mask and brushing in or away one of the effects. This can be particularly useful if you wanted a pseudo HDR effect on a background but wished to keep a face looking more natural.

A Rainy and Romantic Night in Ibiza

A Rainy and Romantic Night in Ibiza
Originally uploaded by Stuck in Customs.

Normally Trey Ratcliff is excellent, this is however a good example pf what not to do with HDR. Not yet clown vomit, but close. Seriously, it'd be better in black and white. With shadows. It's night.