Just a quick reminder blog to anyone in the Eastbourne area on Wednesday evening. I'll be at the Eastbourne Framing Center from 7pm taking part in the "Sussex Scenes" exhbition. I should have approximately 22 photographs on display from my collection and I hope you can pop in to say hello and have a quick look. As well as my photographs Jon Cornford will also be displaying some of his work on canvas and there will be some wine and cheese (for as long as it lasts)!

With my upcoming exhibition at Eastbourne Framing Centre on the 24th June I've been busy preparing my photographs from printing. It's a time consuming process as I am a bit of a perfectionist and since I processed some of the shots I've developed my editing skills and learnt better methods. Once mistake I've made with a lot of shots in the past in sharpening them for their native size and saving that as my final TIFF file. The problem arises when I need to upscale the shot for printing at the larger sizes. This causes blocky artifacts on the edges of detail which although barely noticable in print aren't quite perfect.

As a result I've ended up re-processing a lot of the older photographs so that I can perform the sharpening steps after upscaling the file for print. This will be the first large batch which I've printed from my new print supplier and if the proofs and tests are anything to go by then the results should be fanatastic. Their colour accuracy is much better than my old supplier and the paper stock also seems to be better quality. Another advantage is that they flat pack the prints up to 18 x 12 inches which makes mounting them a bit easier.

One of my objectives over the next few weeks is to capture some photographs of the magnificent yellow fields of oilseed rape that spring up around Sussex at this time of year. I did a brief reccy of the fields along the A27 on Monday and it seems there's not as much around as I remember from last year. I did spot some fields that are beginning to flower so I'll try for a trip soon to try to find some interesting locations.