Aberthaw Powerstation
Took a drive to Aberthaw just as Storm Clodagh hit our shores - new to the world of digital & editing so open to any CC!
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Charles Mercier
Grain silo
A couple of old photos taken while the Amtrak was stopped - somewhere in Colorado, I think?
(And yes, I like that the vertical leans!)
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Last: Oct 22, 2026
Alan Brown
New website post
Just a heads up for anyone that may be interested (and as things are slow in the group.....).
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Last: Oct 22, 2026
Colin Andersson-Hamill
Black Leopard
This female has arrived at Hamerton. This place rescues animals from all over the world, mainly endangered species, and they breed when they can.
Hector Reyes
Leopard spots and high heels
I've photographed Ady a few times now. We get better each time as a team. This image was a fave from our latest session. I hope you like it to.
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Last: Oct 16, 2026
4 Comments
Hi Dexter :) I quite like this photo, I'm digging the desolate atmosphere! I hope you don't mind but I did a really quick and dirty edit of your photo to show what I'm so bad at explaining. I basically just cropped the left and bottom, played a bit with the exposure and contrast and added a ND grad filter to it.
Hi Paul! Thanks for putting time into giving it a quick edit. I'm digging the crop, I'll have to have a play around with that. I also think I need to calibrate my monitors as my original looks much lighter on my ipad than at work in comparison to yours. Cheers!
I recently did some muddy weather photos and converting them to black and white was not especially successful. Paul has offered a quite workable solution in this case. The basic trick I feel is to lift the mid tones and to drop the shaddow tones a bit. Then add either an ND grad or a darkening vigniette to play to the atmosphere. In this case, if you choose to crop to a wide aspect ratio then the grad will work better than it might in a full frame version.
Make sure you calibrate your monitor, or you are just wasting your time, and use adjustment layers, ideally or work on a copy of the original. So you retain all the quality if you change your maind after the edit
Thanks Ian!