Hello! Welcome to my website. I’m Rick. I photograph buildings, nice places and buildings in nice places. And I write about photography on my blog.
I am a professionally qualified photographer based in Dorset. I specialise in architectural, commercial, landscape and travel photography. And that is all!
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This is 30 seconds of peace and tranquility at Navarone Bay, Rhodes. The bit of land you can see in the middle is Lindos, on which the Acropolis of Rhodes sits.
But this video is all about the moment, just me sat on the rocks waiting for the sun to appear. Camera set up and ready to capture this moment.
This is why I love travel photography!
Lindos main beach by Rick McEvoy Travel Photographer
Today four versions of the picture of the main beach at Lindos, with the lovely golden sand, flat water and of course the town of Lindos with the Acropolis overlooking the whole scene.
Just a magical place. If you have never been to Rhodes before give it a try - it is a fantastic place with Lindos and lots more.
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The Acropolis and Lindos beach by Rick McEvoy travel photographer
Another picture taken in Lindos, this time of the Acropolis and the lovely main beach at Lindos.
Photographed at sunrise using my Canon 6D and Canon 24-105mm lens.
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Picture of Lindos, Rhodes, viewed from the Acroplis
Well check out this image. Yes I know I posted one very similar but I still love this shot so why not!!
White balance – daylight
Contrast + 55
Highlights -100
Shadows +100
Whites and blacks – I select shift and click on each and let Lightroom pick them for me – why not?
Clarity +19
Vibrance +10
Detail – sharpening using my pre-set applied on import +50
Lens corrections – done using a pre-set on import
Effects – a very minor vignette.
That’s is it.
Nothing else.
A very visual edit to get an image that I like.
So why does this work? Because it is an interesting subject, photographed from an interesting viewpoint, which I have managed to record technically correctly so all the information is there.
I have written before about my obsession, well that may be a bit harsh, more like overemphasis on the Lightroom/ Photoshop side of photography. Having realised that I spend less time in Lightroom and Photoshop and more time thinking about what I am photographing, and how I am going to photograph a subject.
If I get a few images that I want to keep and share from a shoot somewhere I am happy these days, and my image capture thought process starts with this in mind – I do not want to capture everything in a scene.
This goes out of the window a bit when you are at such a location as the Acropolis in Rhodes, but I took less photos there this year than last year, and of less subjects, which is interesting.
Thanks for reading this post, and I look forward to posting another new image tomorrow on my blog.