Getting up to date:

Since retiring, I've been keeping myself busy volunteering on archaeological excavations and for the Peak Park in various ways - initially with the South West Peak Landscape Partnership surveying barns, buildings and heritage assets but more lately for the Cultural Heritage Team monitoring scheduled monuments within the National Park. This has led to a whole new aspect to my photography resulting in the acquisition of a perspective control lens and a drone.

A major technique of digital photography that I use is High Dynamic Range (HDR), where a series of images are taken at various exposures, then blended together reducing over and under exposure. This is especially useful for high-contrast situations and interiors, as seen here at Dale Mine (left) and Waterhouse Barn (right).

The drone opens up a whole new range of opportunities, as can be seen from the image of Navio Roman fort (left) and the archaeological excavation (right).

Another useful technique is photogrammetry, where a set of many images from different aspects of a subject are recorded, then processed in dedicated software to create a 3D model. These models allow interrogation from any angle. A wide range of subjects can be captured this way, from small items such as a flint blade (using a camera and macro lens) to a large archaeological site (using the drone). It's not possible to demonstrate them here, but my models can be viewed at Sketchfab