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Of all the ruins in the amazing Angkor complex, the ancient monastery of Ta Prohm would have to be my favourite.  Ta Prohm has been left in a semi ruined state with giant fig trees growing out of temples and huge roots clambering over roof tops and slowly pulling the buildings apart.  It is the most atmospheric of all the temples in the main Angkor complex of Cambodia, and I would guess thats why it featured so heavily in the film Tomb Raider…

Photographic Tour Dates for 2014

I took this image on my last photographic tour to Cambodia and Vietnam in May this year, but I’ve only now got around to playing with it a bit.  We only spent 3 days in Cambodia on the last tour, something I regretted at the time and something I will be correcting on the Cambodia Photo workshop for 2015.  Then we will be spending more than a week in Cambodia, with a lot of it around the unique temple ruins of Angkor and beyond, including a couple of early mornings at Ta Prohm!  Details will be going up shortly for the 2014 dates for this tour, and also my 2014 Photography tour to Bhutan.

Image was shot on the Hasselblad H4D-60 with a 28mm f4 lens.

This is the third revisit from the images of the fisherman images from Hoi An Vietnam taken on my Photographic tour of Vietnam and Cambodia earlier this year.  I posted this image in a previous post with about 4 minutes work done in Lightroom, and looking back at it now it looks pretty ordinary.  with just a few more minutes work in Lightroom the image improves dramatically.  I have posted the before image here again so its easy to compare the difference, and it really is only a few minutes work in Lightroom to go from before to after, imagine what you could do actually exporting it to Photoshop and really working it up!

Cambodia & Vietnam Tour 2014

I am in the process of preparing the tour itinerary for Cambodia and Vietnam  for 2014 right now.  The tour will be in July 2014, and quite different to this last tour the same region.  We will spending much more time in Cambodia this trip, with more focus on the out of the way non-touristy locations, including more of the far flung ruined temples outside the Angkor temple complex.  You can read about the last tour here, and this same page will be updated with final dates and itineraries for the 2014 tour soon… Saty Tuned!

Image was shot on the Hasselblad H4D-60 with a 100 mm f2.2 lens.

The second instalment of me reworking already posted images, this one from the same day as the previous post.  Once again this was posted with about 5 minutes work in Lightroom on the laptop (not the best way to do images), and I have since worked it up on the Mac Pro with a bigger calibrated screen, still only in Lightroom though, there may be some more post processing in Photoshop .

Normally for an image like this to print it, I would get to a certain point in Lightroom (when everything starts to slow down), then export the image out as a High Res Tiff or psd (or a smart object) and work on it further in Photoshop before printing.  Well, this image is at the stage of slowing down and not much more is possible in Lightroom (unless you like looking at the spinning beach ball), so the next step would be Export, maybe I’ll show it again later, post Photoshop.

Speaking of printing, I am about to run a photographic printing workshop in August this year, so if you have always wanted to get that desktop photographic printer behaving like the salesman told you it would, come along, you can read more details about that here.

Just like the image from the last post, I shot this from a boat in the Hoi An River on the Hasselblad H4D-60 handheld (at 6am in the morning) while on my last Photographic Tour of Vietnam and Cambodia back in May of this year.  The image on the left above has had about 1 hour in Lightroom, while the image on the right is the original I posted some time back, with about 5 minutes of Lightroom work.  Don’t forget to click the images to get a bigger version.

I’m currently working out a totally new itinerary for next years Vietnam and Cambodia photographic Tour, with a lot more focus on Cambodia and some more remote and Beautiful regions of Vietnam. Stay tuned to this blog for all the updates and book mark this page for all the information about this Photo Tour for 2014.

I posted some shots for the fisherman of Hoi An some time back (I’m not very regular with my posts) that I shot on the last Vietnam and Cambodia photographic tour.  The images were posted not long after I shot them and with only a 5 minute basic workup in Lightroom.  Usually that’s what I post here on the blog, 5 minute workups… I thought it might be nice to show what a little image work can do for a photograph, sort of a before and after, in this case just in Lightroom.

This photograph was shot on the Hasselblad H4D-60 with the Hasselblad 100mm f2.2 lens handheld, and what you see is basically full frame (besides a little horizon straighten… I was on a boat after all), the file is rather huge and there are 12 stops of latitude for editing, so almost anything is possible.

Directly above is the Lightroom worked up version of the previously posted image.  It’s had about 1 hour of processing, mostly just balancing shadow and light, putting the emphasis where it belongs and removing the ugly tower in the background…

The original as previously posted image is repeated below… Don’t forget to click on each image to get a larger view.

Ten keen photographers I wanted and ten keen photographers I have for the 2013 Photographic Tour to bhutan.

Photography Tour to Bhutan 2014 Dates up soon

I will be running the tour to Bhutan again next year and I’ll have the Itinerary and dates up soon, so you can keep an eye on the Tours and workshops page or you can email me am@adammonk.com to register your interest.  Like this year, the tour for 2014 will be for 10 people only and it will sell out fast.