Santa arrives in Blarney and the Christmas lights go on in the village square!

A few months ago I experimented with Imagemagick by using it to merge very similar photos of flowing water to give the impression of a longer exposure. Here are a few more examples. By merging a series of thirty photos taken two seconds apart I created a pleasing image that looks like a sixty second…

I just stretched the limits of Lightroom’s Smart Previews this morning. After editing the following image I decided to see what it looked like as a smart preview. I pushed the image quite a bit, exposing the colour in the sky as the sun set behind me in Lanzarote a few days ago. The original…