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Yet another busy week this week preparing for the exhibition, surviving my other work and so on. But, I got asked a few weeks back to try and photograph some beautiful antique jewellery, and today was the day.

Here is a sneak peek. An antique Sapphire and Diamond ring.

A busy week this week preparing for the exhibition in October, but I managed to take this one this evening. Not my best, but I hope it is liked by some.  So I give you “And the Queen Cried…”

I have had quite a few people of late asking me about HDR. The usual question is a straight forward “What is HDR?”. So, in an effort to explain this a little for those of you who visit this site, I though I should give a bit of an explanation.

HDR or High Dynamic Range Photography, in basic terms, is a technique where bracketing is used in a digital camera to take several (usually 3, though it can be more or less) images of varying exposure values. These images are then merged in software to produce a single final photo that has a high, often exaggerated dynamic range of colour and light.

In my case I have been experimenting with three images. One is at a normal or near normal exposure, one is over exposed and one is under exposed. The over exposed and under exposed shots are obtained by using the auto bracketing setting on the digital camera set to +2/-2 EV.

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Week 4 already, and I am still managing at least one image….YAY!!

Okay, this week is something very different. I have done a shot like this before, but it did not turn out quite as well as this one I think. What it is though, is an image taken with an Infra Red filter. It was a 5 second exposure, and as the shutter remained open, the zoom on the lens was turned. So, here is “Void”;