Lunchtime in Hammersmith

by Paul BannisterJuly 31, 2009 All

Lunchtime in Hammersmith, originally uploaded by NorrisTudor.

160:365 Bright day.
Very difficult to get slow shutter speeds for movement. (am obsessed by movement and flare at the moment), so had to overexpose this in a big way, and bring it all back into line in PP. And had to add sky and flare as it got [...]

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View from the Lords

by Paul BannisterJuly 30, 2009 All

View from the Lords, originally uploaded by NorrisTudor.
Took this from the Terrace. Stunning sky

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Palace of Westminster

by Paul BannisterJuly 29, 2009 All

Had a visit to the house of Lords yesterday, and was guided by Lord Anthony St John of Bletso. Fascinating! Wonderful architecture and history.
Did you know that…”Toe the line”, came from parliament, and was the term that required members who had transgressed the rules, had to put their toe on the line and [...]

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Don’t smile

by Paul BannisterJuly 28, 2009 All

When taking portraits its so natural for people to smile, as thats what you do isn’t it when some else lifts a camera to their eye. But infact its “unnatural”, and so I have to ask them not to smile but just relax.
I like this portrait because of the casual nature in which it [...]

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Breakfast in the Sun

by Paul BannisterJuly 27, 2009 All

blueberries, originally uploaded by NorrisTudor.
There’s nothing better than sitting out, enjoying breakfast in early morning Sun….Especially in London
Took this using my Vivitar Series 1 macro lens. Beautifully sharp. For macro you don’t need AF, so the old PK lens are perfect for this.

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Eurostar is flying again…

by Paul BannisterMarch 27, 2009 All

Eurostar is flying again…, originally uploaded by NorrisTudor.
The Eurostar has been running a much reduced service the last few months because of a major lorry fire in the tunnel. Because the tunnel acts like an oven in situations like this, the temperature got so hot, it melted the concrete. So after a while of flying [...]

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Little ones new sunnies

by Paul BannisterMarch 17, 2009 All

How to get this image
Firstly I used a pink wallpaper (as my backdrop) with butterflies on, which my wife recently used to line the drawers in my little one’s chest of drawers.
Then after some careful lining up of the sunglasses to get one of the butterflies through the glass, I took the shot, being careful [...]

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Gone underground

by Paul BannisterMarch 11, 2009 Travel

Gone underground, originally uploaded by NorrisTudor.
Travelled today. Took this at St Pancras tube before boarding the Eurostar.
This was a 1 second exposure, with some post processing done with GIMP and Lab Colour

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Orton and Selective Colouring

by Paul BannisterMarch 6, 2009 All

One the photographic effects I have discovered recently is the Orton effect. In version of Gimp its in the FX-Foundary collection of plugins you can get for Gimp. In essence it gives a really dreamy effect to images, by creating two layers of one image. The 1st layer its boosts and [...]

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Apple shot

by Paul BannisterMarch 5, 2009 All

Many people have been asking me how I took the apple shot or apple bullet, so here is a short description of the process.

Please note that I use RawTherapee and GIMP for my processing, and the majority of you probably use photoshop and/or lightroom. Well most of the techniques are exactly the same, [...]

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