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                                                     Sika stag in Kent On a recent trip to Kent to photograph Fallow deer, I was surprised to come across this Sika stag- not that I didn't know they where about in this area, but that it was so confiding and happily went about its business without paying any attention to me. Normally these deer are very nocturnal in there habits and particularly shy                                            carlmckienaturephotography

                                                 Greeting cards New greeting cards now on web site.                                                                  carlmckienaturephotography.com                                                                 

                                  Auto stack for HDR and Pano A very useful feature in Lightroom is the Auto stack, I use this feature mostly when creating HDR or Panoramas, but it can be useful when shooting at the full burst rate of the camera (ie 12frames per second). It helps keep a clearer workspace and makes for easy access to a group of images, without having to try and work out the start and end of groups. It is customisable   To access the feature, first highlight the folder (or collection) you wish to create the stacks in, then right click on an image in the film strip (or the image itself) to bring up the menu-scroll down to stacking, then in the sub menu go to Auto stack by capture time.   This brings up a dialogue box set by default to one minute, and can be adjusted by moving the slider left (less time) or right (increase time).So if you where to set the time t...

                                            Stoats in the old wall                                            Stoat, Mustela erminea, searching for food in an old dry stone wall https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/ https://www.facebook.com/carlmckie0/

                                               New Greeting cards New set of eight greeting cards, blank inside, with envelopes Now available from web shop, new greeting cards. A set of eight cards from the natural world, blank inside , so also useful as notelets                                                                    www.carlmckienaturephotography/cards

                                  Badgers on a summers evening A few badger images from a summer evening a month or so back. Not had as much time as I would have liked with the badgers this year, plans to do a lot more next summer, maybe a bit this Autumn  I like them in natural light, late evening                                        https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/                                         https://www.facebook.com/carlmckie0/                                     ...

                                      Wood mice and Bank voles Every summer  I spend a little time with rodents, at this time of year there numbers are at the highest-breeding faster than losses to predation. As summer turns into Autumn this equation is reversed, and depending on the severity of winter, food supplies they have cached during the better months, numbers can crash alarmingly.    But now in August they are out feeding and storing seeds, hips etc for later on, and the physical numbers of them at this time of year makes photography much easier.   The last couple of years I have been fine tuning the nocturnal look ,and the light used in these images is actually a small day light balanced torch, which gives just enough light to illuminate the subject, but allows the background to remain dark

                                                              Ospreys                                                                                   Adult male feeding   https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/   Lightroom quick tip Using the spot removal tool in Lightroom to clean dust spots of images, click the "visualise spots "check box bellow the image and Lightroom will highlight contrast areas -the slider next to the check box will increase or decrease the contrast                                   ...

                              Quick lightroom clean up tip While cleaning with the spot removal tool in Lightroom, in the 1-1 mode -press the "Home key" on the key board, this will take you to the top left hand corner, now as you finish cleaning that area, press the "Page down" key to take you to the next section below. Continue pressing the "Page down" key as each section is finished and at the bottom it will move over to the top of the next row, this is a very precise way to clean images without missing any areas

                                                     Black necked grebe   Black necked grebe, Podiceps nigricollis, on a still lake, early summer morning Photoshop quick tip While using the crop tool, hitting the X key will rotate the crop from landscape to portrait, and vice versa-handy for a quick look at what the crop would look like,x key again puts it back to how it was. https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/