Sharpening Actions

Sandra Myers has supplied some actions to help with sharpening of digital images in Photoshop. As Sandra was kind enough to make them available to people for free - we have been kind enough to host them here for her.

Dave Peck is Photographer of the month

Dave peck, is the shepherdpics featured photographer for December.

Digital Velvia Actions

I thought it was about time I made available to everyone the actions I use to emulate the effect of Fuji Velvia. You can find them on this page.

Painters With Light Exhibition opens at The Basement Gallery

A small exhibition by The Painters with Light Society, opens at The Basement gallery, Ipswich. The work displayed can be found here

Landscape photography pre-flight checklist

Landscape photography involves getting up so very early in the morning that it's easy to forget equioment and that can create disasterous results!

To help forgetfull folk like myself I have created a checklist to help the landscape photographer arrive at a location with all the right gear.

Digital workflow article (Part 1)

Efficient workflow is the key to managing your digital photography. I have just added the first article detailing my digital workflow which deals with the first part of the process.....capture.

Painters With Light Exhibition opens at St. Helenas Hospice

The first permanent exhibition by The Painters with Light Society, opens at The St. helenas Hospice. The work displayed can be found here

Lemon Release 1.1 is released

I know quite a few people have been after this so I've finally got round to releasing a version of my Limited Edition Managment software ~ Lemon. Heare are the release notes :

• First Release used in anger :)
• Added ability to generate single certificate
  Added Image path rename form
  Added version History
  Added new certificate Format "Shepherdpics"
• Recreated the reports to provide useful info!
  Various minor fixes

Got to the Lemon Page for more information.

New Recommended Photographer of the month

The Painters with Light Society, are my featured photographers for November.

I've joined The Painters with Light Society

I am really chuffed to have been invited to join The Painters with Light Society, a group of fine art landscape photographers from across East Anglia. Look out for some exhibitions comming soon from the group.

New Recommended Photographer of the month

Ian & Sue Flindt, are the featured photographers for October.

At last The Book is released!

If you only buy one photography book this year make sure its the Ephotozine Guide to Great Photography, it is just the most inspiring photography book I have ever read. Beautifully designed and illustrated with a mass of fantastic photos (and a few of mine). It would make an ideal Christmas present for anyone interested in taking better photographs.

P.s. I'm not just saying that because it has some of my pictures in it.

London Light/London Life updated

A few new shots added to the exhibition that tries to find beauty in our capital city.

Recommended Photographer of the month added

John Duckett, is the first photographer to be featured in our show case of talented photographers.

The Wag & Bone Show

I spent today at the Wag & Bone Show and it was a grand day indeed. Great fun meeting all those friendly doggies and their owners. I have posted a few shots from today (mainly from the Oldies Club stand).

First half of Portfolio 2006/2007 now available for visitors.

I've just put the first half of Portfolio 2006/2007 on the site, I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Keith & Cliff's 40th.

Two of my best chums had a join 40th Birthday and shepherdpics were there to record the fun.

Portfolio 2005/2006 goes on line.

I have just uploaded my portfolio for 2005/2006. I hope you enjoy the result of a year behind the lens.

London Light/London Life Project

London Light/London Life is a project trying to find beauty in our capital city.

Beauty of Britain Virtual Exhibition Opens

For those of you who can't make it to my latest exhibition, I have created a virtual exhibition so that you can enjoy it from the comfort of your mouse.

Beauty of Britain Exhibition Opens

My new exhibition entitled The Beauty of Britain opens at Daiwa Securities Europe Ltd, London.

Lemon - Limited Edition Managment On-Line

Limited Edition Management is a headache for the photographer who sells their work. In order to address this I have created Lemon. Lemon is a Microsoft Access database which is designed to ease the headache of managing numbered prints.

Articles Section Added

I have now added an Articles section to the site, I will add more as inspiration takes me.

Shepherdpics.com gets a new layout and design

I have given Shepherdpics.com a new layout and design.
News, links and Exhibitions have been added to a new layout utilizing css.