Perhaps its sacrilege to say but sometimes you’ll have a batch of images that don’t suit textures! They might already be busy enough or too dark, flash images or like the one above where I just wanted to keep it clean so you can still see the water splashes clearly. Its sister image ‘Jump’ […]
Dec 02, 2013 | Categories: Blog | Tags: flypaper presets, Nik Color efex, Paul Grand Image, Sea, swimmers, Thailand | Comments Off on Dock Surfers
Firstly we’d like to say a big thank you to Ben Willmore for helping publicise our Flypaper textures on his very informative live podcast last Monday and Tuesday! I’ve managed to watch around half of the many hours so far, and I have to say after downloading the HD copy and watching it when […]
Jul 16, 2013 | Categories: Blog | Tags: France, Paul Grand, Sea, Summer Painterly Pack, swimmer, vacation, woman | Comments Off on to the sea
It’s always exciting to discover one of your photos used on a book cover so I was very happy to spy this Getty licensed Flypaper textured one being used so beautifully on the cover of this new book, Miss Fuller by April Bernard. The recipe has been published before but to save you having […]
May 21, 2012 | Categories: Blog | Tags: book, Dunedin, Getty licensed, illustration, Jill Ferry, Miss Fuller, NZ, Ocean, published, Sea, Tex Box 1 | Comments Off on Stormy Sea now a book cover
You can definitely feel winter is on its way here in southern New Zealand. On the day that this photo was taken the wind was decidedly brisk to say the least. As we walked down the beach I for one wished I’d brought a jacket. When we were almost back to the car I […]
Apr 19, 2012 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Autumn Painterly Pack, beach, Dunedin, Flypaper Textures, New Zealand, painterly, Sea | Comments Off on Play
From Jill and I, ‘Paul’ hope you all had Happy Holidays! 🙂 As its now midwinter, I thought it might be nice to revisit the summer, last August on a balmy evening on England’s Eastborne beach at sunset. One good thing about post-processing is its always possible to go back and redo images with your […]
Jan 02, 2012 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Albion, Autumn Painterly Pack, Eastbourne, England, metal, moody, Nik, Paul Grand, photoshop, pier, popular, sand, Sea, south coast, Summer Painterly Pack, vacation, victorian | Comments Off on Albion on Sea
Another photo of my favourite beach, taken on a warmer and sunnier day than the previous photo of it I posted here. I was lucky that I managed to catch a passing gull when I snapped this. Onto the processing… Beau Linge Paysage @ Soft Light 13% masked from the lower portion of the photo […]
Nov 14, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Dunedin, New Zealand, Sea, Spring Painterly Pack, Summer Painterly Pack | Comments Off on Looking North
Yet another Flypaper product to share, this time an indie pop CD/EP! Several months ago I was contacted by Thom, originally a New Zealander, and now a London based musician who wanted to use one or two of my images, naturally I was delighted to help, and sorted him out with this and another image, […]
Aug 22, 2011 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Aquarius, Brighton, Brushed Rose, CD, clouds, cover, DVD, England, evening, famous, France, French, Getty, Matmos Lake, metal, mist, moody, Paul Grand, published, Ruin, sand, Sea, seascape, skeleton, soft, south coast, Starlings, Summer Painterly Pack, UK, vacation, Victorian iron, west Pier | Comments Off on Thom Cross – Standing on the Edge of the World
Firstly, Jill and I would like to say a big Hi to the fans of the DPS site! It was a pleasure to answer questions for Mary Andrade’s feature on – ‘Tips for Texturing Photographs’ over on the DPS site. For all newcomers to to Flypaper, simply mouse-over the images for a fast before/after effect! […]
May 03, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: lensbaby, Sea, Spring Painterly Pack | Comments Off on at the watermark
We already spoke about three objects being better than two in an image, so I’m pleased to be able to put this maxim to use once again. Here two buoys wouldn’t work quite as well as the three buoys! Overall we counted nine buoys. This stormy sea picture was great fun to do, I had […]
Jun 14, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: composition, Sea, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on the waves
Back down from the mountains, on our local French Mediterranean beach the other day. I spied this washed up boat with sea foam in one of our local salt water lakes or ‘etangs’ in French, which are just behind our sand dunes. To achieve this easy retro look I first used the old Painterly effect.. […]
Feb 13, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: boat, Paul Grand, Sea, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on retro red boat
It’s been another warm day here so after dinner we went for a quick walk along a road (now closed to traffic) above St Kilda Beach, the light was dramatic with dark skies and occasional sunbeams breaking through the cloud layers . At the end of the road, is wonderful lookout with views right down […]
Feb 09, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Jill Ferry, New Zealand, Sea, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on Watching
At this time of the year when our evenings are long and it doesn’t get dark until around 10pm so we often go for a walk on the beach after dinner.We weren’t alone at the beach this night, as well as the few walkers, runners and dogs there was also a solitary sea-lion basking in […]
Dec 27, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, dog, Dunedin, dusk, evening, Flypaper Textures, golden hour, Jill Ferry, landscape, moody, Muscatel, New Zealand, painterly, Sea, soft, Tex Box 2, vacation, walkers, woman | Comments Off on Walking the dog
Another shot taken on a walk on the lovely Doctors Point Beach just to the north of Dunedin. These same people appear in a similar shot but I processed this one quite differently which shows how a different textures can give the same scene a whole new look. As well as some Flypaper Textures, I […]
Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Bruised Saffron, Doctors Point Beach, Dunedin, figures, Flypaper Textures, Jill Ferry, landscape, lens blur, New Zealand, photoshop, red, sand, Sea, selected focus, Shargreen Bone, soft, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, tilt shift effect, vacation | Comments Off on Five
About a month ago I visited a local beach with my son, intending to take photos of him but when we looked over the sand dunes we were surprised to see this pair of NZ Sea Lions a short distance away. Naturally I rushed back to the car to exchange my short lens for a […]
Nov 20, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Tutorials, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Caramel soft, Dunedin, Jill Ferry, landscape, New Zealand, Render lighting, sand, Sea, seals, soft, Tex Box 1, Tutorial, tutorials, vignette | Comments Off on The Happy Couple (adding a vignette using render lighting in Photoshop)
Back in early July we made a special trip to the beach at sunset just to photograph the full moon rising over the Mediterranean.The light was superbly opalescent, and I was lucky, as I captured several nice images as well as the later moonrise. This is one, a huge red container, not sure why it […]
Nov 18, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, bright, Caramel soft, concept, evening, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, French, gloaming, golden hour, homeward, Languedoc, Mediterranean, metal, out of context, out of place, painterly, Paul Grand, people, red box, sand, Sea, shipping container, soft, strange, surreal, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on red box
Hot off the camera….Taken on a lovely walk on the beach this evening -there was some dramatic storm light and the sea looked amazing and even if my photos didn’t do the scene justice, it was great just to be there. This one looked okay before but I thought I’d see what I could do […]
Nov 14, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, clean, concept, cover, Dangerous Liaisons, desaturated, explore, foam, footprint, Getty, glowing, Green, Grosgrain, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, obscured, sand, Sea, sea shore, Shargreen Bone, soft, Tex Box 1, vacation, waters edge, wave | Comments Off on Leave only Footprints…
Another human for our professional readers!Taken on a professional Portrait shoot with French Artist, Martine Roch a couple of years ago. This one was never used but I now like the little surreal looking figure with a bucket in the corner!It was shot in that cold, sharp April light, the shadows being so dark, it […]
Nov 12, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Artist, beach, blond, breakwater, Caramel soft, carrying, carrying on, concept, Contra jour, figure, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden, Languedoc, leaving, lone, man with buck, Martine Roch, mature, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, painterly, parting, Paul Grand, pink, portrait, Raw Linen, reflected light, reflector, Sea, single, strong, surreal, surrealist, Tex Box 1, uplighter, vacation, woman | Comments Off on Life goes on
We were contacted by the lovely Kayla from Digiscrap101 a while back, she wanted to do a tutorial using our textures,and of course we were happy to oblige. Here they are, hot off the press and it’s very easy to follow.Enjoy:-) Photoshop CS3 Video Photoshop Elements Video:
Nov 11, 2009 | Categories: Tutorials | Tags: child, Digiscrap101, figures, Flypaper Textures, girl, Kayla, Photoshop Elements Video, red hair, sand, Sea, sea shore, soft, Tutorial, vacation, videoPhotoshop CS3 Video, videos | Comments Off on Flypaper Textures video tutorials
Another day another beach! I took this last weekend when we went for a quick walk at Doctors Point near Dunedin. Since my family isn’t cooperative when it comes to photos I have to make the most of any opportunities when it comes to getting some human interest in my photos, taking photos of distant […]
Oct 29, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Caramel soft, distance, evening, figures, footprints, Getty, golden hour, Green, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, sand, Sea, Shagreen bone, shore, soft, sunset, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on Family Walk
As requested, we now start to tackle live subjects!This image is from a shoot with a charming Danish Family.Its hard to believe that just a month ago we were still sea bathing! I don’t recommend standing in the sea with an expensive camera, but if that’s what it takes to get a natural shot, who […]
Oct 28, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, bather, blond, boy, calm, carefree, Danish, escape, European, France, French, fun, happy, holiday, Languedoc, life ring, Mediterranean, Orient Express, Paul Grand, pink float, Pompeii Stucco, safe, sand, Sea, secure, smile, summer time, Tex Box 1, vacation, young, youth | Comments Off on the sea bobber!
Another from a visit to the beach the other day!Quite a bit of work went into this one to get the “look” I wanted.First I duplicated the background and blurred it using a lens blur, and using a layer mask removed some of the blur from the central portion of the photo.The textures I used […]
Oct 25, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, birds, couple, feeding, Grande Tour, Green, Grosgrain, gulls, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, Nora Batty, play, reflections, sand, Sea, Shagreen bone, shaw, soft, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on Flying Lessons (or Gull ballet)
This was taken after a lovely walk on my favourite beach. These two little girls were busily building a sandcastle when a wave came and washed away most of their hard work as often happens. Although this looks warm it was quite chilly but being kids they were obviously too caught up in what they […]
Oct 24, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, children, couple, Dangerous Liaisons, Dunedin, figures, Flypaper Textures, girls, Grande Tour, Jill Ferry, kids, New Zealand, play, playing, sand, sand castle, Sea, Tex Box 1, toddlers, two, vacation, water | Comments Off on The castle…
These trees are a feature of the coast in the beautiful Catlins area in the south of New Zealand. The wind comes off the sea and sculpts the trees to these wonderfully surreal shapes.I processed this fairly lightly with Soft Caramel soft light 67% , Bruised Saffron multiply 17%and a touch of Raw Linen overlay […]
Oct 18, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Bruised Saffron, Caramel Soft, Catlins area, concept, dark, distorted, Getty, Green, grunge, hill top, Jill Ferry, landscape, lonely, New Zealand, Raw Linen, Sea, southern, Tex Box 1, trees, vacation, wind swept | Comments Off on Windswept
To spice up this Thai beach landscape I used just one Flypaper texture,Apple Crumble @ Full Blur filter mode and Overlay @ 82%. This resort was badly damaged by the tsunami several years ago.Many locals and visitors lost their lives. Patong in Phuket, pictured above was also the location for the opening scenes from’The Beach’ […]
Oct 13, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Flypaper Tex Box One, Uncategorized | Tags: angle, Apple Crumble, clouds, DaffyLeonardo DiCaprio, empty, evening, exotic, foot prints, Getty, golden hour, green sea, hotel, location, lonely, low aspect, moody, movie, palm frond, palm trees, patong, Paul Grand, Phuket, rocks, sand, Sea, seascape, Tex Box 1, Thai, Thailand, The Beach, tropical, tropics, tsunami, vacation, warm sea, wide angle | Comments Off on Patong beach in Phuket
