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River Saone part two in portrait format

River Saone part two in portrait format

by | Jan 20, 2018 |

Shot towards the end of the the same Saone river shoot blog we posted the other day,
I thought I’d quickly follow it with this similar but also quite different image that was processed in a similar way.
I used a poloriser filter on the camera to bring out the blue sky colour.
For processing I used Nik color pro to lighten the bottom with the reflector filter, then saved and sent it through Topaz impressions to give it a slightly more painterly feel, this smoothed out the image a little, but I could easily have left that process out as its so subtle here.

Flooded River Saone

Flooded River Saone

by | Jan 17, 2018 | ,

Up here in eastern France we’ve had a very soggy winter, warmer than usual but also much wetter and because of all that rain we’ve not had much chance of getting fresh images, but on Sunday we had a rare golden hour when I captured some lovely floodscapes on a very flooded River Saone.
Shot from an ancient raised Roman road above the flooded farmfields, these trees are normally overgrown hedgerow tops and not the banks of a huge lake!

Flypaper Vignettes launch

Flypaper Vignettes launch

by | Nov 14, 2017 |

Welcome to our brand new Flypaper Textures ‘Vignettes’ pack!
Who would have thought that we had not already launched such a strong concept pack?
This pack is a great all rounder, from heavy to light and ethereal and all shades in between perfect for adding extra drama to your photos.

Once again we’ve managed to cram 50 pro sized textures of various formats including portrait, landscape and square to cover all bases.

Bluebells

Bluebells

by | Oct 16, 2017 |

It’s been far too long since our last before/after photo and texture recipe blog post! Time has been short of late as we’ve been busy with many other projects. Hopefully we’ll be blogging a bit more frequently in the future though.
It’s late spring here in southern New Zealand and the bluebells are flowering, these ones were picked at our country hut where they grow wild under the trees…my very own English bluebell wood.

Flypaper Waxworks Textures Launch

Flypaper Waxworks Textures Launch

by | Sep 19, 2017 |

Welcome to our very first encaustic wax worked texture set! We noticed how popular waxing photographic prints had become some time ago and made a note to ourselves to do something along those lines, then this year the right time finally came about and we kitted ourselves up with loads of natural beeswax, natural pigment powders, bookbinding irons and blow guns, heated trays and bain maries, quite a job just to get kitted out! Then came the fun bit, hot and smelly but surprisingly enjoyable once all the windows were opened!

Fly Muse 20 Launch

Fly Muse 20 Launch

by | Mar 20, 2017 |

Our new first pack of the year the Fly Muse 20 pack of textures has been created to satisfy a demand for fans who have requested we bring out a smaller, cheaper pack who don’t want to spend as much $40 on a pack but still want our normal pro-sized textures.
This could be the start of a whole new sized texture pack series, depending on how popular they are with our fans, so feedback would be appreciated!

On Frozen Pond

On Frozen Pond

by | Mar 10, 2017 |

I believe this is the first Flypaper Edges 3 blog so Im pleased to be able to post an already popular image I posted a couple of days ago on my Face Book and Flickr accounts! Captured a few weeks ago in the coldest part of winter when the farm pond in the field next door had been frozen over for weeks, much to the annoyance of the 3 ponies and the black waterfowl that live in these frosted brambles overlooking its banks.

Bird Brush Launch

Bird Brush Launch

by | Jan 31, 2017 |

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How many fellow photographers have had beautiful landscapes that just lacked a certain – je ne sais quoi? – a certain something?Well now flypaper textures can help you out yet again with our brand new Bird Brushes!
Welcome to our second Brush set, this time we have Birds! All kinds of birds, flying, standing, perching on wires and in trees, ducks and geese flying in formation and several skies full of starlings!We’ve already used several brushes over the past few months in trials and the feedback has been so good that nobody could tell they were brushes

Aquilegia

Aquilegia

by | Dec 1, 2016 |

Once again apologies for the lack of recipe blog posts recently, we’ve been very busy with pack launches and suchlike, hopefully we’ll be posting more here soon, I know Paul has some lovely ones to share with you but in the meantime, another flower!

These aquilegia also have the very apt common name of Granny’s Bonnets, you can just imagine granny in her pretty pastel blue bonnet! Another common name for them is columbine, which apparently comes from the Latin for dove as the inverted flower resembles 5 doves crowded together.

Flypaper Nik Presets 6 Launch

Flypaper Nik Presets 6 Launch

by | Nov 17, 2016 |

Welcome to our brand new, up to date popular presets for Nik Color Efex. This 6th pack of 44 Fly Nik Color presets includes a recent pro couple shoot in sunset lighting and also a mixture of subtle and dramatic and are perfect for jazzing up your holiday and pro imagery, for use with textures and without, the sample images pictured above are mostly without so you can get an idea of their effects, a few of the above images are not yet published, but we’ll blog those shortly using some of the presets in this pack.