Recent content by kickstart

Damn it makes me sad looking back at these pictures... however in September we should finally be off to High Greenland and the NW Passage after this was cancelled last year.

I bought the original Luminar and upgraded to Version 3 which I really got on with (Mac). My only real problem was how much battery it drained on the laptop (40mins use). On the desktop, no problem. I upgraded to Version 4 but I hated it, no ability to set my own working space with my 'normal'...

I use Luminar 3 all the time and really like it, I upgraded to 4 but went back to 3 as I find it faster to work in on multiple filters. Version 4 seems to be aimed at more amateur users who like AI sliders

Thank you - It was a One Ocean expedition trip to South Georgia and Antartica. Very good company, but I'll admit it was the most expensive holiday I've ever booked in my life (my retirement present to myself after 25 yrs of running my own business) If you do decide to go don't miss South...

Some of my other shots are not as sharp as I'd like, or too much noise/cropping, don't get me wrong I'm really pleased but when I looked at some the on-board resident photographer got I was a bit jealous. On the other hand he's spent years doing this type of work

The company we travelled with was called OneOcean, Canadian, and I was really impressed by the quality of briefings, safety and attention t detail. For example before we landed on South Georgia we had to completely go over all boots, jackets, trousers and camera bags to ensure there was not a...

Yes those are Kayaks, not sure I'd want to be that close. More pics here (some might be repeated): https://flic.kr/s/aHsmBAfJjb

I've been long time Photoshop user (right from Version 1) and used to upgrade for nearly every new version but I bailed when it came to paying a subscription for something they are not really improving. I've stuck with my old Photoshop, but needed something to process the RAW files. I now use...

A couple more of the kayaks with the whales - not sure i would want to be quite that close in a kayak!

Thanks very much, Every lucky really, taken from a Zodiac, yo can just see the Kayaks in the BG, the iceberg was about the size of St Pauls. An amazing experience having these whales feeding right round us.