TGIGreeny's Photography Blog

Yup, I said I had my own domain. Well now I'm using it. Please point your browser, and your bookmarks over to...

photoblog.tgigreeny.com

...this site will no longer be maintained, all the posts that were here are now there, along with lots and lots of lovely new ones. The new design is prettier, the pictures bigger and everything's a lot easier to follow. So get over there right now!

Thanks to the lovely folks at Dreamhost, I’m now the proud owner of my very first domain name. And a .com at that. No .co.uk malarkey for me. TGIGreeny.com

Dreamhost were doing a March sale, offering a year of hosting (including a domain registration) for just $9.99. That’s around £6. Bargain.

I’m working on the site right now. It’ll be a sort of portal to all my blogging, photography and design projects. Of course this blog will move over there. I’m just trying to work out whether or not to keep it in Blogger, or whether I should shunt it into a custom blogging solution hosted on my own server. We’ll have to see. Anyway, I’ll doubtless give the design a lick of paint, and finally sort the annoying bug that means you can’t see the date posts were made. Oh and I want to ad some Digg buttons too.

Whilst fiddling around with Photoshop CS4 (I had previously been using CS3) I noticed that Camera Raw (the plugin that converts RAW files), had been significantly updated (5.2 now, I was previously running 3.5). The results seem a lot better, with more control over sharpening, and saturation – two of my biggest issues. To test this I’ve been tweaking some of my favourite evening Seattle skyline shots, and will post some comparisons soon.

In many ways I’m delighted that CS4 is so much better. Similarly I’m dismayed that I might have to revisit so many of my old photos to get them looking their best. Oh well.

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Comic Relief is on the telly as I write, being presented by Fern Britton. Which reminds me. The other day I was out on London's South Bank in the snow, taking some shots of a slush-covered London. There out on the riverbank were 'This Morning' presenters Fern Britton and Philip Scofield. Phil was dressed in his technicolour dreamcoat from his 'Joseph' days and they appeared to be interviewing Gareth Gates, presumably as part of a live OB on 'This Morning'.

Well, I had my camera, so it seemed rude not to fire off a few shots. Here they are:

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I recently took a quick (two hour) trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew with my girlfriend. It's just down the road from me, but I'd never been before. It's fairly pricey to get in (£13 per person), and we didn't arrive till about 2.30, so it was late in the day. I must go back when the weather is stunning, as there are some beautiful spots. Despite the cloudy skies and failing light, I managed to grab a few good frames. My favourites are below, including some tonemapped images, as part of my recent drive to play around more with HDR:

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Finally all my Pacific Northwest photos are edited, and uploaded to Flickr. I've put them in a collection because there are so many of them (around 950), and split that up into sets detailing each individual place I went to. Click on the link above to view the collection, and in the next few posts I'll talk about each of the places I went to, and add some of my favourite photos. Here are some that I particularly liked from the trip overall though:

Sorry folks. I've been away for a while, and very busy with a new job. Finally got some time off though, and I want to update you on all the things that I've been up to. So here goes...