Posts Tagged ‘Ballycotton’

The rebel flag in Ballycotton

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 by Donncha
The rebel flag in Ballycotton

The County colours fly on the at in Co. in 2006. I’ve been looking at this image for so long I’m almost certain I must have uploaded it but it’s been sitting in my output folder for all this time!

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Looks like rain in Ballycotton

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 by Donncha

Threatening over in Co. . This was taken way back in 2006 on a nice September afternoon.

Lots done to this image, including overlay layers, and layer masks and other fun.

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Ballycotton Fishing Boats

Friday, February 8th, 2008 by Donncha

crowd the in on a warm August afternoon.

This was taken in 2006, when I think I shot the rest of my Ballycotton images. I love the imposing and the leading lines of the bows.

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Boats at the quay

Thursday, February 15th, 2007 by Donncha

Small or dingies tied up at the pier in , Co. .

I was looking straight down when I shot this and had to crop out a tiny bit off the bottom where the pier was. The tide was way out, I expect the owners of these small weren’t in a hurry to get out on the .

Owen Higgins wasn’t very happy that he wasn’t nominated for the Irish Blog Awards. Treasa blogged about his rant, quoting bits that he has since removed. He later commented on Treasa’s post that he didn’t understand how the nomination process worked. Go show him some love by visiting his site. Some of his are quite good!

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Rusted and abandoned

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 by Donncha

An old oil stands on the at rusting away as the exposed metal is beaten down by the elements.

Technique: I increased the saturation of the reds to bring out the of the . I desaturated other colours so the would stand out.
I then duplicated the layer and darkened the top one to bring out the and before using a layer mask to expose the ground on the bottom layer. After that a simple gradient at the top of the image provided a nice dark effect and finally, I dodge and burned the until I was happy. Was that useful?

I used CocoViewX to view my work directory from my Linux box on my Macbook. I was surprised that Finder didn’t display thumbnails and I didn’t want the iPhoto heavyweight when all I wanted was to know which image was which.

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