This was taken in Wiltshire near Stonehenge. The image only needed some subtle adjustments to balance the greens and bring out the colour in the bark.

Ever wondered what a Pharaoh keeps under his skirt?

This is the Temple of Hathor in Egypt. It was dedicated to the Nubian Queen Nefertari. The image was made with layers of As Shot and HDR blended in various modes.

This railway viaduct was built in 1878. It is three-quarters of a mile long and crosses the Welland Valley. To create this image I used alternate layers of HDR Detail Enhancer and HDR Tone Compressor. I used a variety of blending modes to build up the image.

Karen took this is a shot of me on Hadrians wall. The sky was almost completely blown out in order to capture as much detail as possible in the stones. I managed to squeeze out some more detail by using an extreme tone curve. You can see from the gray bar chart the original image had almost no mid-tones.

This sunset on the north shore of Rutland Water was processed with Photomatix to produce two HDR images. I loaded these and an unprocessed image into three layers in photoshop. As all three layers are very different it is possible to get some extreme results from changing the blending modes.

This was taken on the side of the road along the Hambleton peninsula. The panel below shows the layers used to develop the image.

This is the North shore of Rutland Water. I’ve shot this path from another angle here. The panel below shows how I have digitally developed this image in Photoshop. The Levels and Curves layers affect the whole image. The other two layers have masks applied. The Colour Balance layer only affects the ground and the Hue/Saturation layer only affects the sky.

Today I got on my bike to capture some of this crazy weather we have been experiencing. Cycling up and down icy hills is not for the fainthearted. This image was taken in a field in Hambleton which is the peninsula in the centre of Rutland Water. How to make your own world.

This stunning sunset was taken by the side of the road in the deserts of western Egypt. Capturing a sunset can have it’s problems. The first thing to do is turn off the cameras automatic white balance. If you let the camera decide you could lose most of your warm golden tones. This is because it tries to give a mix of colours even if its looking at a big red sky. The next problem is the dynamic range of the scene will probably be much higher than the camera can record. You can take multiple exposures with a tripod and blend them with HDR. This was a hand held shot so I used Photoshop to bring back the colours which the camera did not capture. I’ve also had some interesting results from split toning sunsets.

I took this on a family holiday to Austria in 2008. This Panorama was created from three wide angle shots. I used various blending modes to build up the image.