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Some pictures from other sources have been included in this website and their respective authors are credited accordingly.
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Glyn Storey is based in Berkshire, UK and has been a keen amateur photographer from being a teenager. His first camera was an Agfa Silette 35mm fixed lens manual model that required a handheld exposure meter for best results! Better 35mm film cameras appeared later including Praktica and Pentax inter-changeable lens models.
In 1999 he acquired his first digital camera, a Fuji MX2700. This 2.2M pixel camera produced remarkably good prints (as good or better than the 35mm film cameras) up to A4 size. Better digital cameras followed and most of his current photography uses either Canon EOS 5D MkIII or Panasonic Lumix GX80 cameras.
More information about the hardware and software used can be be found in the relevant section.
The images used in this website have been reduced in size both dimensionally and in file size. All of the images are normally shot in camera RAW format. For the Canon 5D III, the image size can be up to 5760 x 3840 pixels with a file size of over 25MB. These images are too big dimensionally and the large file size is unsuitable for typical internet download speeds.
For these reasons, the images in this website have been reduced to maximum dimensions of 2560 x 1440 and a file size of typically 500KB. This gives a reasonable compromise for viewing high quality images on a large TV screen or monitor but a smaller file size allows reasonable download speeds on slower internet connections.
The PrintShop will allow selected images to be downloaded in a full sized (lightly) compressed JPG format for local printing. These will be the same dimensions as the original images and have a file size of typically 5MB to 8MB. Downloadable images will be watermarked and are for personal use only. Commercial use will be considered; please use the Contact page.
Contrary to popular belief, not all photos have been extensively 'Photoshopped'. Image processing is frequently used however to adjust brightness, contrast and the relative luminosity of shadow, mid-tones and highlight areas. This is partly due to the camera taking an 'average' exposure where the resulting image is not what was perceived by the eye. Adjusting these parameters using suitable software renders images much closer to what you thought you saw. The same is true for colour balance. The eye is very good at making adjustments for different lighting conditions, for example the warm light that occurs towards the late afternoon and early evening. Pictures taken at this time may appear much warmer than we remember them and adjustment to the colour balance can improve the perception of the scene as we remembered it.
Occasionally, Photoshop is used to remove extraneous elements from an image which could not be removed in the composition. This is typically overhead cables and odd elements creeping in at the sides of the picture. The use of Photoshop as an image manipulating tool (changing heads and adding or removing people from a picture) is a skilled task, so you won't find any of that in these galleries!
Software used includes:
All image import, processing and export uses an Apple Mac Pro computer. Website design and maintenance uses networked Apple Mac Mini computers. Apple hardware is a personal choice as the Adobe software is also available for Windows PCs.
Photo storage is on an external mirrored 4TB (4000 Giga bytes) RAID drive. Of this 1.6TB is storage for a library of over 80,000 images.
Additional network attached storage (NAS) provides a further 19TB storage for archiving and for video storage.
The camera bag currently contains: