Archive for December, 2005

A flock of birds on the Lee

Saturday, December 31st, 2005 by Donncha

I love the old style nature of this shot. The fog that day made the far distance disappear and the middle distance was shrouded in white!

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Girls on the town

Friday, December 30th, 2005 by Donncha

Pictured on Winthrop a few days ago.

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English Market Seller

Thursday, December 29th, 2005 by Donncha

There’s a wonderful looking olive and spice stall in the English !
Unfortunately it is always mobbed with customers making it difficult to capture a photo of it but I raised my camera into the air and shot this blind.
The original is quite grainy as I used a high ISO of 3200 to compensate for the bad light.
Workflow:

  • Increased the saturation slightly.
  • Unsharp mask with a radius of 5 to bring out the grain more.
  • Duplicate layer and used the Threshold tool to isolate bright parts.
  • Blur the top layer with a radius of 25 pixels.
  • Set the top layer mode to “Soft Light”.
  • Saved a .xcf version, .jpg and a resized jpeg too. I didn’t unsharp mask the resized version.

Hope you find that useful!

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Fog Laden Trees

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 by Donncha

in on a foggy day

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Swans in darkness

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 by Donncha

pictured at last .

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Run around and around!

Monday, December 26th, 2005 by Donncha

Children running around a labyrinth on The Grand Parade.
Schools, churches, community groups and businesses around were asked to design them as part of the closing ceremonies of City of Culture 2005.

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Audience

Sunday, December 25th, 2005 by Donncha

Through a break in the crowd I spotted a little girl watching a play on the in front of Brown Thomas.

Nollaig Shona daoibh! (translation)

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Santa’s on his way!

Saturday, December 24th, 2005 by Donncha

Tonight visits as the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus over 2000 years ago.

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Scapa Flo, Blackpool Shopping Center

Friday, December 23rd, 2005 by Donncha

Scapa Flo played for free in aid of the Belarussian Orphanage Project. Pictured here are 3 of the members.

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Christmas Goods For Sale

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005 by Donncha

At shopping center there was a event for the Belarussian Orphanage Project. A played inside and just inside the main doors they were selling cards and small gifts. Not sure if I should have left this as a colour image but I think as a character study of the boy and woman it works much better in black and
white.

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