Last month I looked at alternatives to caffeinated HDR processing as ways of handling a wide dynamic range — and a bracketed sequence of exposures. Since then, I’ve had occasion to put these into practice as my assistant and I prepare the images for my new book on the Tea-Horse Road, shot largely in southwestern China and Tibet, and I realised that there’s still more to say. Processing is, in any case, an open-ended subject, and it’s this ‘endless’ aspect of it — you can go on tinkering and re-interpreting raw images forever — that has put me off writing a book about it! Continue Reading…
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Oh… I only just realised that I’ve ignored this part of the site for a long time. Maybe this is why I find Twitter impossible (quite apart from never being able to say anything in just a couple of lines)
It’s not as if I didn’t have anything to write about, either. On Saturday I returned from a six-week trip that went Thailand-upper Burma-Yunnan-Assam-Chennai-Gujarat. Part of it was admittedly holiday, but more of it was adding to the Tea-Horse Road book - the little-known southern route, snaking down from Kunming into Shan State, then across upper Burma to Imphal, Continue Reading…
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