Nik Silver Efex Pro for digital photography

If you want trouble free creative and beautiful black and white images. this plugin is a must have from Nik Software. You can also download a demo form their site which will give you an idea of what this baby can do.

I tried a demo and was instantly won over. No more adjustment layers, dodging and burning this is the real deal. A number of effects can be applied and adjusted all on the fly. There are also old school film look effects. The major selling point has to be the U-Point technology.

This is a utility which allows you to make adjustments on the image without creating a number of layers

Here is a screen shot of the user interface.

Once you are happy you click OK and hey presto. The first image is a conversion with the Black and White mode in Photoshop and the second image is through Nik Silver Efex... what do you think?

Street photography with the Ricoh GR Digital

I recently invested in a Ricoh GR Digital camera, a wonderful compact camera which produces almost film like black and white images. It's a breath of fresh air to walk around and snap at an instance, not spending too much time composing but almost shooting from the hip.

I produced a book via Blurb books showcasing images produced from the camera and the printed article is very impressive.

Here are a few examples featured in the book entitles StreetWise, further examples of walking the streets (with my camera) from everywhere from London, Brighton and Copenhagen can be found on my Flickr site.

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