Hi, I’m Richard Nuttall, a freelance photographer, retoucher, and digital artist with over fifteen years’ experience in digital imaging.
Starting out with a film camera and scanning my negatives, then making the jump to full digital capture in 2003, I have taking and editing images since before my Digital Arts degree and Master’s in Photography.
Photography
If you’re looking for someone friendly and easy to work with, I’m your guy. I have a decade’s experience in covering corporate events and weddings and am able to provide a wide range of photographic services including:
- Trade shows and exhibitions
- Conferences and seminars
- Weddings
- Portraiture
Retouching
If you have images that require a bit of cleaning up or post-production, I offer a range of photo manipulation, retouching and image enhancement services. Including:
- Removing unwanted items from photos (litter, reflections, etc.)
- Adjusting colour balance and neutralising colour casts (especially whitening yellow indoor lighting)
- Removing imperfections in portraiture (for example under-eye wrinkles and blemishes on skin)
- Enhancing figures (improving hourglass shape)
- Removing the background to exhibition stand shots.
Technical Skills
- Correcting lens distortion as well as straightening vertical and horizontal lines
- Reducing image noise and grain from low light photos
- Removing dust in extreme close-up photography (for example jewellery)
- Adjusting portions of an image (for example altering the colour and tone of the sky)
- Adding shadows to enhance realism
- Creating seamless composite images using multiple exposures with different light sources
- Recovering lost highlight and shadow detail using multiple images (HDR imaging)
- Adjustment of RAW files
- Removal of chromatic aberration
- Expanding images to fit a particular aspect ratio (not just cropping, also extending backgrounds and adding image detail)
- Cutting masks to isolate parts of an image (both vector and layer masks)
- Re-creating semi-transparent image elements after altering the background
- Restoring scans of old ripped and creased photos
- False colouring black and white images