david purdie photo blog and gallery news

I have made several of these tutorials and wasn't really sure what to do with them. So I have decided just to make them available on youtube and here.  First in the series is re-visiting the kent coast to see how things might look 1 year on from making the original picture....    

customer photo iphone 11 pro A recent client of my custom printing service has kindly agreed to let me use his pictures to talk a bit about the process. It has been something of a revelation!  CASE STUDY - PHONE PICTURES AS BIG PRINTS All these were shot on phones, from an iphone 7 up to an iphone 13 pro. So good quality for a phone, but by no means top end cameras. They were also saved in the phone's highly compressed jpeg format. On top of this modern phones will process the hell out of your picture to make it as bold,...

Our eldest son, Dominic has just returned from a month in Berlin and is due to head back ASAP for more. It seems its pull as a centre of youth culture and especially electronic music abides. Looking through his pictures got me searching out some of my remaining scans of old black and white photos from there. All shot on film and recently scanned. As fresh faced youngsters, Andrea and I went to visit the city on the first anniversary of the wall coming down. This was 1990. We had expected some kind of event to mark the occasion, but maybe the...

  When I was running the photo workshop days, often the part that had the most impact was at then end of the day.  After spending the day shooting at different locations, we would return to the gallery where I would process my RAW files on a computer and show everyone what could be done at that stage. Having seen the actual scene, then the before and after versions, this was a revelation to most photographers. The idea was we all had similar shots, so my students for the day could go home and do the same to their pictures. Isn’t...