Scott Windsor

In 2014 a friend of mine showed me what you can do with Lightroom and Photoshop and turned an ok landscape into a photograph fit for a magazine cover. I was amazed and started to apply these techniques to my own photography. Since my earlier childhood I always had an interest in art and design, and from the 1990's I started in photography using what I knew as an artist and applied it into my photographic work. The move from film into digital was a natural curve for me as it meant I could express the artist in me more using Lightroom and Photoshop in my photography. I have a passion for photography, I love it. What I like about it is that all it takes to create a great piece of art is a camera and software. The rest is up to your skills and imagination.

I started spending over 20 hours per week studying photography and post processing enjoying every minute of it. Since then I never stopped learning. With time comes more competence.

I specialize in wedding photography, cityscapes and architecture, portraiture, pet portraits, interior design and commercial photography. My passion is all of these genres, but weddings and interior/commercial photography are my main business.

I love to learn new photography and retouching techniques and apply them to my work. Only to make it more beautiful and natural. Not to go too over the top as I can't stand images that look fake and unreal.

I like dramatic type photos, inspirited by famous movies such as War Horse by Steven Spielberg, 300 by Zack Synder, and Gladiator by Ridley Scott for example for colour images. My favourite look in photography has to be black and white. I love the look of the old classic black and white movies and I try to incorporate that look in my images. Black-and-white is honest. At times beautiful, at times brutal. Always revealing the truth - of a situation, of an emotion, of the fleeting permanence of nature. I cannot help but when I take a portrait or landscape I try to make it as a movie poster. In short I like the drama look.

I like to work with natural light mostly in my photography, but I also love flash and other lighting techniques to add impact to my images.

Some of my photos are heavily retouched, some not. What matters to me is the emotional impact... do people get something out of it or not?

I retouch most of my photos with Lightroom and Photoshop. I use these programs to bring out the drama in my images. In the old days it all used to be done in a darkroom dodging and burning, these days it's all done digitally on a PC. The camera can only do so much, the rest is all down to my artistic creativity in software. My workflow really does involve 80% Lightroom and 20% Photoshop for wedding photography, and 90% Lightroom and 10% photoshop for Landscapes and everything else. It's all about lighting, and these two programs, especially Lightroom, really does bring out the drama and the impact in my images that I love.

I also used to do HDR using Photomatix, but I do it less and less these days as I find I get more natural pleasing results using just one raw file with Lightroom. Sometimes if the scene has a lot of contrast I will do several exposures and blend them using layers in Photoshop. This technique is called digital blending. I also do this with interior photography, but instead use a technique called 'Flambient' photography, combining flash with ambience. This is mixing only two images of a room. One being an ambient photograph exposing for the natural light, and the other being a flash photograph to correct colour casts. Combining these two photographs in Photoshop creates a beautiful image which looks natural and retains all the colours the client so painstakingly chosen. Sometimes I take a third exposure to create a window pull to bring out all the details outside the windows.

In landscape photography I also shoot a lot with the 10 stopper ND1000 filter for long exposures effects which I adore.

​I think that creating images for people to enjoy is the most amazing job in the world :-)