Fine Art & Stock Photography

Fine Art? I've seen several definitions of Fine Art, but I guess the one that I find the most appropriate is a work that I would be happy to frame and hang on my wall. I've included a selection here that might, in fact a few do, grace my walls at home, but of course we all have different tastes and if you would like your favourite scene, object, pet etc given the creative touch, then I would be only too happy to do it for you.

I have many years experience of software manipulation of digital images, but more recently have been excited by the possibilities afforded by 'Painter' programs. Some of the images here have been digitally 'painted' using the original photograph as a base. But this is not an automatic computer process, each 'brush' stroke is applied individually by hand and can take many hours, but when printed to canvas these can look deceptively authentic works of art. Look out for the bridal and grandparent portraits, the dogs and horserace images for examples of images manipulated in this way.

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imagery is another new technique that can produce fascinating results. It's a technique that combines three or more images, shot at different exposures, to bring up the shadow areas and give an even exposure to the overall image. Several of the landscapes here have been treated this way.

I do subscribe to one of the better stock photography agencies, Alamy, and a selection of images are available for purchase there for licenced print use, please click on the Alamy logo below to view those currently available. If you'd like one of these images framed however, I would of course be only too happy to supply it.

Dennis Harris LSWPP LBIPP Cambridge England 2008