Ophrys Photography exhibition

Ophrys Photography was exhibiting at the Eynsford Festival of Photography exhibition at the John Roper School on the 28th and 29th May 2006. In the picture below, John is discussing a monkey orchid picture with Tom Hart Dyke - who opened the exhibition. Tom is well known for his recent TV appearances in connection with the world garden at Lullingstone castle and also a documentary on his search for a new species of tropical orchid to name after his grandmother.


The next image is of a young photography buff casting a critical eye over the Ophrys Photography stand.

Kent on Sunday Review magazine

Ophrys Photography was featured on the front cover and pages 3 and 5 of the Kent on Sunday Review magazine. To read the article click on the following link and look at the 7th May 06 edition of the on-line magazine.

Bird showcase gallery

I have added a new showcase gallery of my favourite bird images to the Ophrys Photography website.

click here to view the bird showcase gallery

Digital Workflow and RAW Conversion in Photoshop CS2 - Tutorial

Photoshop CS2 has brought improvements to the way images are viewed and processed over it's predecessor Photoshop CS. The main change is the introduction of "Bridge" - which replaces the old File Browser, and enables RAW processing to be carried out in the background while working on other images in Photoshop itself.



In this tutorial I illustrate all the steps in the digital workflow from RAW image to finished TIFF file. In so doing, I will cover reviewing and ranking your images using the slideshow and star ranking method, I explore the RAW conversion advances over CS, and cover batch processing, batch renaming, and saving in the new dng format.

I hope you find this tutorial useful!

Please click here to view the Photoshop CS2 tutorial on digital workflow and raw conversion

Please click here to view other Photoshop tutorials

Ophrys Photography awarded Website of the month!

In the January edition of the prestigious magazine "Outdoor Photography" we were awarded the title of website of the month.

The site attracted a rarely awarded 5 "stars" and was described as simply perfect! Praise indeed.

To visit the website, please click here...

Ophrys Photography

British Butterflies - some images from 2005

SOME OF THIS YEAR'S BRITISH BUTTERFLY PICTURES

Heath Fritillary - Nr Canterbury Kent



Gatekeeper - Nr Maidstone Kent



Comma - Nr Maidstone, Kent

Swallowtail, Norfolk



Red Admiral, Dungeness, Kent

Another Heath Fritilary from Kent


For more Pictures of butterflies, click here

For a tutorial on photographing butterflies click here

WIldlife Photography hints and tips - Preventing and dealing with dust on the digital camera sensors

This is an enlargement of a portion of sky in an image which shows the effect of dust on the sensor of the camera. Does this look familiar?
Camera manufaturers do not recommend using sticky cleaning pads, and having a camera professionally cleaned is an expensive business, but is all totally avoidable if you follow a few simple precautions that I have described in my wildlife photography hints and tips.

To learn more please click here:
Removing and preventing dust on digital camera sensors

PHOTOSHOP CS TUTORIALS - Use of the clone stamp tool and healing brush

I took this shot of an iceberg in a small boat in the Arctic. Unfortunately, somebody got their red sleeve into the picture just as I took it. Also there are marks in the blue sky caused by dust attracted to the digital sensor in the camera.

I have prepared a tutorial which explains step by step how to use Photoshop's clone stamp tool to remove the unwanted sleeve from the picture and the healing brush tool to repair the sky.

To read my step-by step tutorial on the clone stamp tool and healing brush please click here

To read about other wildlife and nature photography Hints and tips please click here

To read my other Photoshop tutorials for wildlife photographers please click here