Gallery – First Filmpack8 edit

Last night I covered the HBO Max UK and Ireland Launch Party on Wednesday 25 March 2026 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. The following images were edited from Fuji RAW files using DxO Filmpack8. I made lots of errors last night during the edit; new workflow and all that....

Improving Black and White Photography Workflow

Those of you that have been following this blog for a while will know that for many (many) years I have been using Silver eEFex Pro (part of the Nik Collection, now by DxO) to produce my Monochrome images. I have created custom presets for Red Carpet and other subjects .....

High Contrast shots with the GFX100RF

This week's gallery is rather short. It's purpose is to hilight the strength of the GFX100 sensors when it comes to high contrast images.

A Deep Dive into DxO PureRAW 6

As the title of the post says, this is my look at the latest version of the PureRAW demosaicing which I use to pre-process all of my Fujifilm RAW files before editing them in Lightroom. (I have mentioned this before, here and here). Why do I do this? Why do I use an additional tool before going into Lightroom (which can process these files without any pre-processing?) There are a number of reasons.....

A Short Walk around the Knepp Estate with the GFX100RF

I have known about the Knepp Estate for a long time but for some reason, never visited. I corrected that today. After editing last night's job I went to expore and get some lunch, taking the GFX and my sketchpad ...