Pride 2023 (Gallery)

Impish

Free

Like No-One’s Watching

Sliding Into Your Demonic Messages

Titania Trust

Floss

Ultraviolet Flower Test

Hmm… Turns out if you filter out all visible and IR light, you don’t have much light left (!) so it’s hard to get a high shutter speed or small aperture. These all employed a UV torch to help that. I was naively hoping for otherwise-invisible patterns to emerge but either I’m capturing the light wrong, or I’m misremembering something from my childhood about bees….

Dahlias

Not sure which of these I prefer…

Doomscroll Alternative

Royston Rockets Compo Night

Excellent shoes

Barely rescued from the gloom

YAAAH!

Ikebana

I cannot decide if large-aperture multi-focus stacking creates a different image from a single smaller-aperture exposure (all other things being equal). My impression is that it creates a feeling of looking at a painted work (traditionally all parts in minute focus) that I do not feel with a straightforward large depth of field…

Black & White (IR) St Andrews

Edgecliff

Castle

South Castle Street

Castle Sands

Oscar

10-month old Oscar was in his happy place chasing tennis balls on the East Sands.

Letting light in on magic… This looked a bit flat, but then I applied a linear gradient mask to the background and desaturated the distance, very satisfyingly giving it more depth.

St Monans

BMX Abduction

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To be honest, when I look at this… I see this:

Overworked Tit

Overworked in the sense that I took a rough noisy image shot through a window and bounced it through multiple exports and Topaz and Photoshop re-workings before getting this. Your approval of this may vary.

Stotfold Mill

And, less interesting, but still something to bear in mind….