Donncha
Donncha
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Donncha Ó Caoimh is a software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer. He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Mastodon.

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  • Still stuck in P Mode?

    Kathy writes that many users are stuck using P mode, or the automatic mode of their favourite tools simply because they don’t know how, or don’t know why they’d like to use those extra features. I link to this usability article here because she used camera terminology to describe how a user approaches a complex…

  • Google Picasa for Linux

    Google finally released their photo organisation software, Picasa for Linux. It’s a free download, and uses Wine so it’s not a truely native port. I’m going to try it out now and will update this post later with my thoughts and impressions!

  • Cross in the sky

    Cross in the sky I noticed this cross in the sky while walking around Dublin a few weeks ago. When I saw a church I had to make this shot and I’m quite happy with the way it came out! Aperture ƒ/14 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/250s

  • Shooting panoramas el cheapo

    If you’ve ever tried stitching photos together to create a panoramic photograph you’ll be more than aware of the awful distortion between one frame and the next. That’s one reason why it’s recommended that frames overlap by at least a third. There is so much distortion because the camera is rotated around using a normal…

  • Six Apart Mark

    Six Apart Mark Niall Kennedy drove myself and Mark Jaquith around on a small sight seeing tour of the local attractions in San Francisco after WordCamp last Saturday. A visit to the offices of Six Apart proved to be too good a thing to pass up so we posed for a few photos on their…

  • Honest Smoothies

    Honest Smoothies We bought smoothies in Honest, a small shop in Dublin. They were having problems with their machines and gave us one of the smoothies free but they didn’t taste all that great unfortunately. Aperture ƒ/4 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/6s

  • Hungry Caterpillar

    A caterpillar munches on flowers by the bird sanctuary in Blarney, Co. Cork a few weeks ago. No SF photos today, need to recharge my batteries! Update on 2015-08-11 – I re-edited this photo in Lightroom and uploaded a larger version! You can find the original photo here! Aperture ƒ/4 Camera DMC-FZ5 Focal length 6.4mm…

  • Automattic at the Bridge

    Automattic at the Bridge From left to right: Podz, Donncha, Andy Skelton. In the background is the famous Golden Gate Bridge leading to San Francisco. Thank you Diane for the directions to this amazing viewing point and thank you Toni for the lend of the car! Aperture ƒ/14 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm…

  • White Reflection

    White Reflection Pure white light reflects off the waters of San Francisco Bay in this shot taken on Friday night. Thanks again Niall for that mini tour! Aperture ƒ/5.6 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1.3s

  • Ferry Building San Francisco

    Ferry Building San Francisco The Ferry Building, San Francisco on Friday night. Aperture ƒ/4 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/2s

  • Ferry Building’s Clock Tower

    Ferry Building’s Clock Tower The clock tower of the Ferry Buildings, San Francisco. We had a pre Wordcamp dinner with lots of people in Taylor’s Automatic Refresher. I was glad to meet many people for the first time, among them Niall Kennedy, Scott Beale, Michelle Clay and Safire. I guess giving me business cards is…

  • Four Buildings Skyward

    Four Buildings Skyward Four buildings reach to the sky downtown in San Francisco. We had a great meal in a Thai restaurant shortly after! Aperture ƒ/11 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/250s