London XXI

Four images superimposed to show a BMXer performing a trick at the 2012 Red Bull Empire of Dirt. The image has a bit of blur that I'm not happy with, but this was taken with the cheap Sigma 70-300, so not really a surprise that it isn't sharp.

Brussels II

Looking up at the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium. A three exposure HDR image.

Lucerne IX

Looking out across Lake Lucerne. A three exposure HDR image.

Bath IV

A three exposure HDR image processed using Photomatix/Lightroom/Photoshop.

Nottingham XXXVI

Looking up at the brutalist architecture of the originally named 'Tower Building', found on University Park (Nottingham University). At 17 floors and 61 m high I don't think this quite classifies as a skyscraper, but it's still a fairly imposing building. A three exposure HDR processed with Photomatix/Lightroom/Photoshop.

Trier II

A three exposure HDR image of the front face of the cathedral in Trier.

Edinburgh IV

HDR capture of the evening sky over Edinburgh, as viewed from the castle.

New York XXX

Looking up at the Chrysler Building.

Brussels I

A three exposure HDR image of the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium. The 102 metre high sculpture forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.

Ghent I

Taken during my brief tour of Belgium. If only I had that wide angle lens then I could have got the full reflection in!

By the canvas here or the wallpaper here.

Lucerne VIII

Walking on water?

Meersburg VII

One of the many boats on Lake Constance, as viewed from Meersburg whilst the sun sets.

London XX

Tower Bridge HDR. Three exposures merged and processed with Photomatix. Cropped and adjusted in Lightroom with final touch up and edit in Photoshop.

Jersey City III

Another image that was sitting in a 'to edit' folder for far too long. This involved generating a HDR image from a single shot, then adjusting certain areas in Photoshop. Finally I touched it up in Lightroom. For whatever reason the EXIF has been stripped out during the processing, but this was taken with a Canon EOS 500D and 18-55 kit lens in July 2010. Taken at either a PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) station in New York, or New Jersey, I really can't remember which.

Buy the canvas here or the wallpaper.

Lanzarote I

El Golfo. I was fortunate enough to be sent to Lanzarote on a conference the other week. I really wish I had a wide angle lens though. This is a three image panaorama, each shot being a three image HDR capture (ie nine images in total). Processed using Photomatix and Hugin.

The sky was fairly washed out, so I decided to 'swap' it with a sky from another image. I'm not entirely sure whether I'm happy doing this or not, since it is no longer the true original image. But then since I process things quite a lot I decided to give it a go. A little bit of information, the lake/lagoon is green due to microorganisms living in the water and the beach is black due to volcanic ash.

Vienna V

The power of post-processing? Every so often I go back through my 'archives' and try to apply some of the new tricks and skills I have gained to some older shots. Here is an example of a photo I took in June 2007 with a Samsung Digimax A6 (an extrememly low rent point and shoot). I even uploaded the original here.

In order to re-adjust this image I took it into Lightroom to adjust the levels, then into Photoshop to remove the unwanted people on the left side. I still wasn't happy though, so I created +1 and -1 exposure equivalent photos and created a 'faux' HDR in Photomatix. Simply using the preset 'painterly' effect and then some final adjustments in Lightroom I got the look I wanted.

For those interested, this is the "Die Macht zu Lande" fountain created by Edmund von Hellmer in 1897.