Blue Doors
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 by Donncha
Blue doors in Bantry, Co. Cork.
Tags: Architecture, Bantry, blue, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Doors, Houses, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, lomo, Urban

Blue doors in Bantry, Co. Cork.
Tags: Architecture, Bantry, blue, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Doors, Houses, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, lomo, UrbanThis is a slighly modified version of an old GIMP Lomo plugin I’ve used for ages that will now work with the new GIMP 2.4 release thanks to some advice I remembered reading on the GIMP User mailing list. The original plugin is by Francois Le Lay but hasn’t been updated since 2005. It’s a basic script but it’s very effective. Just be warned, if you resize your image, make sure you right click on the Vignette layer and click “Layer to image size” before the resize. Otherwise odd things happen!
Download gimplomo.scm.
Installation is easy. Simply copy gimplomo.scm into your .gimp-2.4/scripts/ folder and restart the GIMP. It will appear as Image->Filters->Light and Shadow->Lomo.
Below are two before and after examples of what the Lomo plugin does to images. I have also posted fake lomo photos in the past which should give a really good idea of what it’s capable of.

Before and After Lomo images
Script-fu in GIMP 2.4 requires that variables be defined before using them which has broken a lot of Script-fu scripts unfortunately. In theory it’s a great change because it tightens up on sloppy programming but it hurts the end user!
Tags: Gimp, gimp-2.4, gimp-lomo, irishblogs, lomo, Lomography, Photography, vignette, WordsAn expired meter I spotted while we waited for a table to become free in a restaurant in San Francisco a few blocks from Union Square.
Photo has been "cross processed" using the Curves tool. I created an S curve on the red and green channels, and then applied a lomo plugin for good effect!
Tags: Abstract, California, Canon 20D, car, irishblogs, lomo, parking-meter, Photos, San Francisco, San Francisco Photos, Sigma 10-20, sign, Signs, United States, Urban, vehicle, VehiclesThis camera belongs to Alkos, who I met on Monday night and it’s what he shoots everything on his photoblog with. He and his girlfriend had gone to the bar and I decided I liked the draughts board pattern on the table and composed this still life.
Tags: Abstract, Black and White, camera, Canon 20D, chess-board, Cork, Cork Photos, draughts-board, glasses, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, lomo, Photos, Sigma 10-20, The-Old-Oak
Volunteers from the Animal Care Society were out in force on Saturday collecting to raise funds.
We bumped into Beamish and his owner and I forgot to ask her name, but hopefully she’ll see this picture as I gave her one of my cards. Beamish was lovely and very placid, perfect tempermant for dealing with the crowds on a busy Saturday in town.
Pictured outside Tesco shopping center in Douglas, Cork last year. These springer spaniels waited patiently for their owner to come out of the shops.
Tags: Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Dogs, Douglas, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, lomo, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Sky, springer-spaniel, UrbanNo. 48 on Grand Parade Cork is an old disused building near the Goat Broke Loose. It’s also next door to the old location of Fianna Fail’s Cork office.
Tags: Architecture, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Doors, Grand Parade, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, lomo, Look up, Photos, red-door, Sigma 18-200, UrbanA small house is stuck between two larger buildings in Dingle, Co. Kerry. I’m not sure what caught my eye in the first place but I think it was the red door.
Shot on a wet morning that brightened up after an hour of intense rain.
Tags: Architecture, Canon 20D, Dingle, Houses, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Kerry, Kerry Photos, lomo, Photos, Rain, red-door, Sigma 10-20, UrbanA solitary daisy grows in front of a small house in Fountainstown.
This was an interesting photo for me to take. I spotted the daisy while walking out the road but I didn’t stop to shoot it until returning. I’m glad I remembered it! I’m really happy with the way this came out.
Tags: alone, Cork, Cork Photos, daisy, fence, Flowers, Fountainstown, Houses, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, lomo, Photos, Sigma 10-20, solitaryThe sun sets over a small inlet in Fountainstown. The tide is out and boats are stranded in the mud.
One thing that bothers me about this photo is the large black bit on the left. I think I overdid the lomo a little although I’m quite happy with the burned in clouds. What do you think?
I’ve ordered another 200 moo mini cards. 100 images duplicated. Should do me for several months I think!
Tags: Beach, Boat, Cork, Cork Photos, Fountainstown, in-photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Landscape, lomo, Nature, Photos, Rocks, Sea, Sigma 10-20, Sky, Sun