Online Model & Photographer Portfolio Site

posted by pjmorley, Jul 13, 2008 4:37 PM — 2 comments

I'd like to introduce you to my new website Model River. It's in beta stage at the moment but fully functional and you will be able to use all of the functions of the site. I'd be grateful if you would pass the url on to any models, actual or potential.

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Help me win a competion

posted by pjmorley, May 9, 2008 12:50 AM — 4 comments

If you are reading this it may be because you have seen my images and maybe downloaded one or two. In return you can help me by voting on my butterfly image in the Canon competition on this link..

Click Here to Vote

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Hyperfocal Distance Made Easy

posted by pjmorley, Feb 20, 2008 9:43 PM — 10 comments

If you’ve been interested in photography for any length of time, especially landscape photography then you will have no doubt come across the term hyperfocal distance and its usefulness in obtaining maximum depth of field or front to back sharpness in any given photo.

In simple and photographic terms, the hyperfocal distance is the focus distance of your lens when the nearest object in a scene remains acceptably sharp whilst still keeping everything in front of that all the way to infinity (or at least as far as you can see) acceptably sharp also. So you can see that for landscape photography, it’s a very useful technique or method to have at your disposal to ensure as much of the scene is in focus as possible.

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Convert to Black & White

posted by pjmorley, Feb 10, 2008 11:18 AM — 10 comments

Here is a link to a short tutorial that shows how to convert colour images to black and white using the channel mixer. This method gives the most control over your final image. However, for those that just want to get on and do it, I have also provided a set of Photoshop actions that you can download directly from my website HERE

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