InPixtures Photographic Studio

26/12/2024

A shot from just before Christmas. Trying to decide on whether to take the little Lumix GX80 or Fuji x-T1 on a trip. This film-like shot is straight out of the Lumix GX80.

12/12/2024

A memory from visiting the fair here in Torquay back in 2022. Captured on an old Fuji X-T1 which fell into disuse when I embraced CCD and LiveMOS sensor cameras. I'm pleased to say that that it's firmly back in my hand nowadays.

24/11/2024

Torquay Harbour, 2022

24/11/2024

The Bookshop, Oxford. An oil and canvas based digital painting.

24/11/2024

A reworked version of Café in the Covered Market, Oxford. Here I have cooled down the image to bring out some of the goreous greens and blues as well as picked out more detail in the people.

20/11/2024

I purchased some Photoshop actions the other day and since then I have been experimenting with digital painting using Photoshop. This painting, the base image is not mine so I cannot take any credit for it, was created using one of these actions with some modification of the resulting layers to create something unique. Early days but I do recommend that budding artists take some time with Photoshop to help with the creation of art beyond photography.

31/10/2024

So, I downloaded On1 2025 on my ancient laptop last night, but only after spending a few hours getting my operating system in top running order. First thoughts, other than Tacksharp and NoNoise it's fine, it runs pretty well including useful stuff like Super Select, Match Colour and even Mask Ai. It shouldn't though, the CPU is a 6th generation Intel, the GPU is an old GTX960M with 2GB RAM and it only has 24GB of memory. Tacksharp and NoNoise are effectively unusable, fine if you have 10 mins to spare for each image processed but I have Sharpen #4 which does a reasonable job in no time at all plus I have all my software on a desktop PC so I use that in preference. An image from my walk yesterday in Oxford, The Covered Market.

26/10/2024

I'm in a number of facebook groups where what you use to take photos is much more important than what you take. That's kinda crazy to me because it's always the photo that matters, the means by which it is captured is somewhat secondary. That being said, I am not immune to the hype🤣. Here's a shot, an old one to boot, taken with the out of favour Nikon D600, of Johnny Depp down on the harbour in Torquay😉

26/10/2024

You've got to love candid photography, the genre that just keeps on giving!

24/10/2024

Another local image. This giant ice cream catches my eye every time I pass, which is often and I have photographed it a few times from various angles. Never really been happy though. I think this B&W version gets close.

23/10/2024

A favourite image from 2024 taken with possibly the smallest CCD camera I own, the diminutive Casio EX-Z850

20/10/2024

Oscar

Going back through old photos and this one came to light. Oscar, about 3 years old

20/10/2024

Going back through old photos and this one came to light. Oscar, about 3 years old

19/10/2024

I came across this photo from about 20 years ago and had to share as my (now) wife Kate looks absolutely beautiful.

15/10/2024

A Harbour View in oil

15/10/2024

The old deserted farm house at Nun's Cross reimagined in oil

14/10/2024

A toned down Olympus E-300 image for today. Although I have selected the Vivid profile I have kept the contrast and saturation set to +0 so as not to overpower the image. I think that this works well but do you agree? Photo taken with the Olympus E-300 + Zuiko 18-180 f3.5-6.3 D, RAW processed in On1 using the Vivid Camera Profile imported from the E-300 with sharpness applied to overcome the butter soft lens characteristics and WB adjusted because i made an error setting it up. Doh!!