Entries by Richard Olpin

Layla

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A quick mono edit of the lovely Layla, shot at Eyebox Studio in Bristol this evening. Expect to see a lot more of this young lady very soon!  

Oops, rookie mistake!

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I had a quick trip out yesterday to take a few snaps with my friend Phil.  I’d suggested a quick trip down to the Severn bridge as there’s generally something pleasing to be had there.  I’ve been a bit under the weather for a few days and I clearly wasn’t firing on all cylinders as […]

RPS Workshops / Committee matters

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A quick update about my role in the local region of the Royal Photographic Society.. Following a very successful series of workshops I helped to run at the RPS HQ last autumn, I will be presenting three more at the RPS in the spring on the topics of digital workflow and editing with Lightroom and Photoshop. I’ve […]

Mono Conversions

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The example below show how much more effective a simple image can be with a monochrome conversion. Hopefully by the wonders of modern science you should be able to move your mouse over the image below (grab and drag the little handle) and see a before/after example of the original image with nothing done to […]

Copyright – a reminder…

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Recently I’ve had to remind a couple of people about the way copyright works. It’s all too easy these days to post an image on Facebook or a blog that you found somewhere, but it’s important to remember you need permission from the person that owns that image to do so.. It doesn’t matter if […]

Can you do me a favour ?

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It obviously nice that people like what I do, but sometimes it seems they don’t appreciate what it took to get there.. Often it seems that people assume that because you’re good at something “it comes naturally” or you just have “the knack”. How often have you heard someone say something like “well it’s easy for […]

Never leave home without it..

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Here’s another before/after example illustrating the benefit of using a circular polariser: Move the slider to the right to reveal the ‘after’ image with the polariser.. Note, other than the crop and adding the copyright text, these images are both straight out of camera. The only difference between the two was the use of the […]

Tyndale Photography Club

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I had another very enjoyable evening yesterday presenting a talk on digital workflow and editing techniques to the Tyndale Photographic Club in North Nibley.  They always make me feel very welcome, and it’s nice to have a group who are open to new ideas and who’ll ask plenty of questions! :-) A couple of people […]

More Than Human (Tim Flach)

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I’m rather looking forward to the first Royal Photographic Society meeting of the year tomorrow as we have a guest speaker who’s work I really admire. Tim Flach is a great wildlife photographer with a rather unique style The one thing I will say, is that his website is rather out of date, relying rather […]