Monthly Archives: May 2012

Harnessing The Power Of Sunflare

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Large sunflare over the beach in Hastings

(Photo taken at: 1/400, f/16, ISO 100 – with florescent WB)

This past few days has brought with it glorious sunshine. In England when the sun comes out, people go a little crazy, off come half the clothes, and everyone crowds onto the nearest patch of grass.

In my case my craziness reveals itself in my love for making things sparkle. I’ll take any excuse to create little shining stars across an image, the more or the bigger the stars, the better. To celebrate another beautiful summer morning, I thought I’d share a little tip to help you play with flare yourself.

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Fields of Gold – Part 2

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I went back to the field today.

It was cloudy, cloudy, rainy, cloudy, aaall day long. However, as soon as I left work there was a brief burst of sunshine. I ran to the field, and took a few more photos before the sun went away for the night.

(Photo taken at 1/4000, f/1.6, ISO 100)

I was so pleased, the sun was exactly where I hoped it would be, and just bright enough to make the flowers shine, with just enough cloud to make the sky interesting. The photo gods were smiling on me this evening.

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New Website Launch (and giveaway)

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screenshot of http://vrindawebb.com

After months of hand-drawing doodles, swirls, frames and funny little boxes, writing, rewriting, deleting it all and starting again, I am super excited to be able to introduce to the great big land of the all that is internet…. my new website.

From now on you can find me at:

http://vrindawebb.com

(No www. Don’t ask me why… I have no idea, it just doesn’t work.)

Please let me know what you think! And also let me know if you come across any bugs or weird typos (I’m also not sure how it acts on ipad/iphone, not having either to test it on). I may count this as my beta launch.

The Fun Part

I’m so thrilled it’s all finished and running that I want to give something away to celebrate. I don’t have a lot to give at the moment except for my time, so I would like to offer everyone who comments on this post, the chance to win free photo enhancement and retouching on any two of their own photos they choose.

I will randomly select a winner from the comments below 10 days from today, on Saturday, 12th of May.

If you would like to double your chances to win, feel free to stop by and Like my photography page on facebook. Leave another comment here once you’ve done that and I’ll enter you twice. If you already Like my page, just let me know in your comment and I’ll enter you twice straightaway.

Please pass on word about this little giveaway, I’d be so very grateful and will return the favour as soon as opportunity arises!