Saturday, September 6, 2008

Obtaining Perfect Landscape Photography Images

By Walker Hall


Do you use any image processing software, such as Photoshop? Virtually none since the switch to digital. In the case of slides, which I'm still digitally scanning, all images are reworked with Painshop Pro. This is mainly to crop and resize, and to make a reasonable attempt to optimise the contrast and colour balance. Colour correction has to be performed sparingly, however, as (1) I'm partially colour blind, and (2) colour correction often causes more problems than it cures.Yes.

Are credit card payments with Paypal secure? Yes. Paypal uses very high levels of security. You will notice that the shopping cart page and all other stages in the payment process have secure "https" page names, and that the secure page padlock appears in your browser.No.

Can you provide a personalised message inside a card? Yes. If you would like a personalised message please either telephone your order details, or place your order in the normal way (choosing No message), and then send an e-mail to us from our contact page with details of what you have ordered and the message you would like us to include in your card.Yes.

So why the website? It would be fair to say that, initially, having free webspace along with my first dial-up account was a solution looking for a problem. I had a hompage full of bland domestic stuff at first but I figured that people outside of family and friends would simply not be interested. So I started putting up my holiday snaps. It evolved from there and eventually I dropped the homepage itself. My friends, if you asked them, would tell you that I seem to have a compulsion to share.This is a service we are thinking of offering depending on the demand through a VIP membership. If you would like to have this service offered just contact us and we would love to discuss any options.I'm just old enough to have missed out on fundamental schooling in metric units. Despite being a confirmed internationalist and an enthusiast for metric measures, miles (as a measure of distance) and feet (as a measure of altitude) are in my bones.

Can I make a credit card payment without using Paypal? Yes. You can telephone us (01937 529613) and we will record your order and payment details. These will be processed through the same credit card system we use when attending craft fairs. Please do not send credit card details to us by e-mail, as this is an insecure method of communication. is a free online photo gallery and community for Landscape Photography. For questions/comments please read the FAQs page, or Contact Us.

Are you a professional photographer? No! What you see here are nothing more than snapshots. Apart from one recent, isolated case I've never made any money from photography. As I've said elsewhere my motivation for publishing these photos on the web is to share the experience of hiking and hillwalking with a wider public, not to push the photographs as art or things of merit in themselves. But if you do look at some of my images and think to yourself "hey, this guy can take a good photo" I shan't seek to contradict you.Yes we do. We have sent photographs and cards to the United States, Australia and Europe. If you wish to order from outside the UK, please use our contact form to let us know what you would like to order and where you would like it shipped to. We will provide you with details of the total cost including shipping, and how payment can be made. Any import duties payable on products shipped outside the UK are the customer's responsibility.Yes.

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