Category Archives: Lanscapes

HOLIDAY

Week 26 and this week its time for me to take a break, so i have headed of to the splendour and beauty that is the Lake District, I am stopping at the Windermere Marina and its stunning, all be it internet access is an absolute pain to say the least. so being as its a pleasant night I have found myself a nice wooden bench to sit at and have managed to find some free wifi to enable me to bring you this weeks blog shot! yaah.

So this is a quick bracketed shot i took today over the marina and of course I have given it the HDR treatment all be it I am not sure how its going to look as i did the editing on my laptop and wow is it slow to edit in photoshop (I miss my home PC already) well I hope you like it and I wish you all a great week lets just hope the weather holds out over here too yippee.

I hope to try and get my July / August diary sorted for shoots as well whilst I am away so that I can get back into the swing of things just as soon as I get back from my chilled out Holiday, thanks to everyone for visiting and continually supporting me in my photographic adventures, please do leave your feed-back and if you want to perhaps follow me on my facebook page here.

Take care one and all, Jurgen

RANNOCH MOOR

Hello everyone, as we slowly encroach upon the Yule tide of Christmas I find myself looking back into the archives of what seems like a million years ago as I drag from the archive this rather lovely image taken early this year whilst up in Glen Coe, this was actually taken on my old Sony A550 DSLR and I have done little to it other than a touch of noise reduction and colour saturation.

This week has seen little time for me to enjoy any real photography and as yet I still havn’t had time to go through my images from last weeks visit to Wales.

I have been watching loads of video’s and reading up on portrait / flash photography so I am keen to give that a go over the next few weeks so watch this space everyone.

There has been a little confusion on the weekly blog email as people seem to think that they are getting the same image each week?  but if you read the email there is a link saying “Click Here To See This Weeks Blog Shot” please use that as the image at the top is simply part of my email template OK.do please leave your feed-back on this weeks image or any other image on my blog site and forward the email on to your friends and family,

Well have a great week everyone and thanks for your continued support, I am off to see A-Ha in concert now Yaah! Jurgen.

OLD JOHN

Hello everyone and welcome any new members to this my Blog site, well a bit of a boring week as I have been off work due to illness but things are looking allot rosier now that my leg has healed a great deal, many thanks for all your well wishing. so this weeks image again comes from my back catalogue of Millions of images! I had a little play with this one and as you can see the results are fantastic and in all honesty I can say this really does sum up the day we had when we visited Bradgate Park in Leicester, as the rain clouds where very heavy with these somewhat amazing patches of sunlight bursting there way through wherever possible. This in turn gives a fantastic light in the mid-ground and across the “OLD JOHN” building on the hill top whilst it still manages to convey a very threatening outcome within the sky.I love it! (But I am bias) I hope you all do to and many thanks for any comments that you leave.

Have a fantastic week one and all, Jurgen.

PADLEY GORGE

Welcome back, well it was a fun packed week (NOT) as it was my return to work so I had little time to pursue that important thing being photography. Friday myself and my mate Andy managed to take a trip to the fames Padley Gorge up in what was not so sunny Grindleford, however this made for ideal lighting condition. It was a bit of a stumble down to the gorge and I so wish I had taken Wellington boots as I could have gone paddling with my trusty tripod.

I took about 30 – 40 shots in varying locations along the gorge at differing F stops to try out different exposures, but what I found most difficult was trying to close the image down to a main focal point as the background was often quite busy and with no dramatic lighting this made for a difficult composition.

so what have i done to this image? well there is a graduated filter top and bottom in reverse expose / brightness levels to try and bring out the brown of the water and darken the background to bring you back into the action of the flowing waters. All the usual sharpening and colour correction has been applied and with the flat light coming in from above over a long exposure I feel this makes for a great image whilst trying to keep some of the brown colour to the water. Overall a very ethereal feel but I must say I loved the challenge and would welcome a trip back there soon.

I hope you all like it and remember to leave your feed-back via the website as it really does help me think in differing ways when trying to produce these shots. All the best and take care everyone, Jurgen.