Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006 by Donncha
Photoheadlines will run a series on the Photography Olympics, the first installment covers three events: Postcarding, Branding and Bragging. I’m looking forward to the rest!
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006 by Donncha
Maybe.
I’m really happy with the way this image turned out because we were right next to them and I wasn’t sure if I would get them all in. In the end I had to crop to get the composition I wanted. I duplicated the layer and darken the top one before removing the non-cloud portions of it. I added a slight lomo effect too which did wonderful things to the sky too!
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Urban,
women
Posted in Candid, Coal Quay, Cork, Cornmarket Street, Ireland, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Sky, Street, Urban | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 by Donncha
I like this: King Corner - great sky and architecture shot. All in your hands…. - keep on smiling!
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St Patrick's Street,
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Posted in Candid, Cork, Ireland, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20, St Patrick's Street, Street, Urban | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 by Donncha
This makes the attitude of the people we met there all the more confusing. We parked in the middle of the town, Jacinta wanted to check out a pottery shop, and walked with Oscar down the road. We passed by several people, mostly tourists by their clothes, and unusually, they kept their heads down watching the ground and never said “hello” or even commented on Oscar! We’re used to people stopping us and asking about him so this was disconcerting.
Later on we rested on the wall of the harbour and a few people did greet us, but there is a strange ambience and uneasy feeling about the town. Next time we’ll head directly to Dunworley.
The image was processed using two layers. One for the sky and the other for the ground. Sky was burned heavily to bring out the clouds while the ground was dodged and brightened with the Curves tool.
I’ve geotagged this photo on Flickr. Works well enough. It even knew where “courtmacsherry ireland” was!

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Signs,
Sky,
Street,
Urban
Posted in Beach, Cork, Courtmacsherry, Ireland, Photos, Sea, Sigma 10-20, Signs, Sky, Street, Urban | 13 Comments »
Monday, August 28th, 2006 by Donncha
It was processed afterwards with the gimp Wide Angle plugin and I did a little work changing colours but not much else.
I like this: downtown strips, simply because it’s a neat idea I haven’t seen anyone else do yet.
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Posted in Architecture, Candid, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street, Urban | 6 Comments »
Sunday, August 27th, 2006 by Donncha
Jill Greenberg’s infamous photos of children crying and upset are in today’s Sunday Times magazine in the article “Taking candy from a baby”. It’s unfortunate that such a reputable publication chose to publish the photos and I can only imagine the horrified response from parents as they sat down to breakfast with the newspaper this morning.
The article doesn’t say much, only summing up what we already know but the last paragraph disgusted me at the implication present in it for anyone who protests at her photography and methods.
Greenberg is appalled that some people even saw a sexual context to the pictures. “It didn’t even occur to me that people might think that. A lot of the people who’ve been upset are men. I don’t know if it’s because they project their own desires on these images and they don’t know what to do with them and blame me.”

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Sunday, August 27th, 2006 by Donncha
I tried shooting from the hip yesterday with the strap of my camera over my shoulder and my camera in a horizontal position instead of being wrapped around my hand in a vertical orientation.
It proved useful, but I found that:
- More of my shots were blurry, perhaps because either the back and forth movement of me walking. I tried shooting in Tv (Shutter Priority mode) and even at 1/200sec and higher there was shake.
- It’s great getting more of the surroundings in but I miss the feet.
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Street,
Urban,
woman
Posted in Black and White, Candid, Cork, English Market, Food, Ireland, Market, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street, Urban | 4 Comments »
Saturday, August 26th, 2006 by Donncha
This picture was taken last year. It’s on the location of Donald Trump’s new building, Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) on the site of the old (and ugly) Chicago Sun-Times building.
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Posted in Architecture, Chicago, Photos, Street, United States, Urban | 4 Comments »
Friday, August 25th, 2006 by Donncha
Photodoto published Making Portraits this morning which got me thinking more about my street photography tomorrow. I wonder will people pose on the street for me? Do I have the nerve to approach complete strangers, make them feel at ease, connect with them and take their photo?
I know I won’t need it when I’m outside tomorrow, but Strobist linked to a professional lighting setup for portraiture in a studio. Might come in handy later.
The venerable Philip Green’s portrait page is of course a good read. It’s been around for years and I’ve read it many times. If you haven’t browsed http://www.photo.net/learn/ yet then you’re missing out!
Finally, Anandtech’s Portrait Tutorial is good, includes examples but I wonder why their second photo was included. The poor girl has stone columns coming out of her shoulders, even when blurred!
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Words
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Friday, August 25th, 2006 by Donncha
Digital Photo School’s latest posting is about the eternal question, RAW Vs Jpeg? It’s a really good read and goes through “what a RAW file is .. compared to a Jpeg” which can be a bit mysterious if all you’re used to is uploading images straight from your camera!
The article was written in response to this discussion on Flickr on the same subject. I skimmed through the thread, but the very last comment pointed me at Raw Studio, a GPL licensed RAW converted for Linux, Windows and Mac and any other OS that supports GTK+.
It’s still rather new, being only at version 0.3 but I downloaded the very latest code from SVN and it worked fine. I pointed it at Matt’s RAW photos of my wedding and a few moments later up popped a thumbnail browser, preview window and side-panel controls. There are no automatic auto-exposure/auto-everything options but the auto-white balance worked perfectly.
It uses dcraw, the RAW conversion engine used by many projects, including Google’s Picasa (and no, there is no virus in the Linux version!) and my favourite GIMP RAW plugin, UFRaw. Linux RAW has a good overview of Linux software for working with RAW images.
At this early stage I’m very impressed!

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Posted in Photography, Words | 2 Comments »