mouse-over for before view. Sorry it’s been such a long time since our last post! We’ve both been busy with more important things like holidays:-) I have spent a lovely 10 days on the tiny Pacific Island of Niue, it’s such a relaxing and laid back kind of place and I’d love to return some […]
Sep 12, 2016 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Chaac, cosmos, flower, Jill Ferry, painterly, pale, pastel, pink, soft, tempest Painterly pack | Comments Off on Softness
These Clair Matin roses are looking particularly beautiful in the garden at the moment in their second flush of flowers for the season so I couldn’t resist picking a few for some photos and also to bring some of their colour and fragrance indoors. I kept the processing fairly light this time to allow […]
Feb 24, 2014 | Categories: Blog | Tags: flowers, Flypaper Nik Presets 2, Jill Ferry, pink, roses, soft | Comments Off on Pink roses
Winchelsea is a secluded and hard to get to English channel resort, nestled between its more famous and trendy neighbours of Hastings and Dungeness, so its still delightfully unspoiled. I only came across it after visiting the more cultured hilltop town of Rye, with its illustrious dead writers, the famous American Henry James and […]
Jun 22, 2012 | Categories: Blog | Tags: beach, England, fantasy, illustration, painterly, Paul Grand, soft, south coast, UK, vacation, wind farm, wind power, windmills | Comments Off on Windmills
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
In England I bought a full size double hospital X-ray light box from Ebay, cost me next to nothing, but boy did I get burnt for the extra baggage on the flight home! So, I’ve been going through the old negatives, and came across this shoot with my niece, proudly showing her party outfit in […]
May 18, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: child, film, girl, scanned, scanning, soft, Spring Painterly Pack, Summer Painterly Pack | Comments Off on Girl with teddies
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
A flower again, this is an astrantia bloom that I picked on one of my walks and brought home to photograph indoors, it being too windy here at the moment for macros outside. The pink you see in the background is the roses in the blue and white jug from one of my previous photos. […]
Dec 18, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: astrantia bloom, flower, Flypaper Textures, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, picked, Pompeii Stucco, Rainbow Trout, soft, stolen | Comments Off on Sorbet
Cecille Brunner is such a pretty little rose, I have the bush variety and it’s lovely at this time of the year. My mother used to have the climbing version in her old garden, it was a huge bush which scrambled up an old plum tree and was smothered in blossom and seemed to grow […]
Dec 08, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Archival Canvas, blur, Cecille Brunner rose, flower, Flypaper Textures, grunge, Holmes, interior, Jill Ferry, natural light, New Zealand, painterly, rose, soft, soft focus, Still Life, Tex Box 2, vase | Comments Off on Nostalgia
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
These half dead flowers are the remainder from an earlier photo session but they caught my eye when I was trying out my new 50mm lens. Focusing at f1.4 is very hit and miss I can see even with auto focus 🙂Processed with Flypaper Textures Tarte Tatin @ Soft light 36%and Pompeii Stucco @ screen […]
Nov 27, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: 50mm lens, concept, dead, Dunedin, faded, faded memories, flower, flowers, forgotten, indoors, Jill Ferry, lost, natural light, New Zealand, Pompeii Stucco, roses, soft, Still Life, Tarte Tatin | Comments Off on Faded Memories
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…
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
I put my wonderful but neglected macro lens on this morning and went for a quick expedition round my garden. This Clematis montana is in full bloom, and the flowers were sparkling with droplets after overnight rain. I processed this one by duplicating the background layer and then blurring it using the lens blur filter, […]
Nov 01, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Caramel soft, Clematis montana, flower, Getty, grunge, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, soft, Still Life | Comments Off on Clematis
A rare misty day in our part of the world.These mists are so far and few I have to dash out with my camera!This picture was taken on a strange atmospheric hill that sticks out of the old sea marshes, or ‘Etang’ in French.It now rises out of a sea of golden vineyards. On top […]
Oct 30, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, archeological digs, atmospheric hill, Bruised Saffron, digs, finds, Flypaper Textures, Getty, guarding, hillside, historic, Languedoc, Mediterranean, mist, misty day, moody, now silted up, old sea marshes, Oppidum sea port, Paul Grand, pine trees, Raw Linen, road to Narbonne, Roman Museum, Roman settlement, soft, strange, Tex Box 1, thousand years, UNESSCO, vacation, world heritage site, ‘Etang’ | Comments Off on Pines in the mist
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
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)
For this misty winter farm-track scene I used;Apple blush @ Vivid light – Opacity 37% Fill 34%Grosgrain @ Hard Light – Opacity 27%, Fill 28%Caramel soft @ Opacity 86%, Fill 100%
Oct 14, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Flypaper Tex Box One, Uncategorized | Tags: alp maritime, apple blush, Caramel soft, change, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, Grosgrain, grunge, landscape, Languedoc, last snow, Mediterranean, melting, mist, moody, mountains, Paul Grand, season, snow, soft, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on Last snow
Anyone who follows my photos will know I love walking on the beach and we’re so lucky here to have so many readily accessible beaches nearby. This was taken on a stormy day back in May when there was a dramatic big surf and stormy sky. The original photo included the top of a small […]
Oct 12, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Flypaper Tex Box One, Tutorials, Uncategorized | Tags: atmosphere, beach, Dunedin, gloomy, Green, Jill Ferry, mist, moody, New Zealand, rough, sand, Sea, sea scape, Shagreen bone, shore, soft, Tex Box 1, Tutorial, waves | Comments Off on Stormy Sea
A simple use of Flypapers Raw Linen in full blur mode.Blend hard light Opacity was 100%, fill Opacity @ 94% Necropolis texture was used to finish.Blend soft light 48% and fill opacity @ 57%. Just these two textures were used to create an almost ‘sepia effect’ of a visitor, perhaps from the past.
Oct 03, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: concept, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, illustrative, Languedoc, lone, man, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, photoshop, Raw Linen, sand, Sea, sepia effect, shaw, soft, strange, stranger, surreal, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on visitor from the past
I took this beach scene on a wintry beach walk a couple of months ago and rediscovered it earlier when I was hunting for a landscape to process.I like my skies big, so I did a little cloning in of new sky at the top….thankfully my rough cloning has been covered with texture:-) Umm…and the […]
Oct 01, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Flypaper Tex Box One, Tutorials, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, concept, escape, flight, Grosgrain, gull, Jill Ferry, mist, New Zealand, Sea, seagull, soft, Tex Box 1, Tutorial, vacation | Comments Off on Fly (with texture recipe)
To enliven this dragonfly in front of an ‘out of focus’ sand dune,I simply added several layers of flypaper’s ‘Nora batty’At various mixes.
Sep 28, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: balance, close up, dragonfly, dunes, fine, Green, insect, Paul Grand, point, resting, sand, soft | Comments Off on Dragonfly on the sand dunes
I “played” with this photo for hours before coming up with this and thought you might like to know my “recipe”. Though of course you’ll have to treat the instructions as a guide as no two photos react in the same way when treated with texture. First I duplicated my background and did a little […]
Sep 27, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Bruised Saffron, daisies, flowers, Flypaper Textures, grunge, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, soft, Summer Painterly Pack, Tex Box 1 | Comments Off on Golden Daisies (with texture recipe)
