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Early Morning Bus
Early Morning Bus Early morning, catch the bus to work or school. You know exactly how she feels. Except it’s the weekend! Woo! No going to school or work!
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Self Portrait
Self Portrait Pictured in the elevator of the new Ballincollig shopping center.
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Bird on Ground
Bird on Ground What kind of bird is this? Around a dozen congregate around our bird feeders, dive to the ground and bath in the bowl of water below, and even fight over how gets to have a bath or a feed sometimes! Aperture ƒ/6.3 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 300mm ISO 200 Shutter…
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Simple steps to photo touch-up
In this post I’m going to show you how to go post-process this image: By the end, we’ll have an image that looks like this: This tutorial was created using the GIMP, but it’s equally applicable to your favourite editing software as long as it has the same tools. Photoshop, and other editing software should…
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Arrggghhhh!
Arrggghhhh! Young boy admiring the graffitti on a van. The van was used to transport ramps and tools for the skateboarders in Emmett Square, Cork. Aperture ƒ/9 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 18mm ISO 100 Shutter speed 1/200s
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Chatting and Shopping
Chatting and Shopping Two girls pictured on Patricks Street, October 1st 2005. This is one of the US photos I forgot to post! Minor US trivia: It was mislabeled in the US book as Sharing.
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Crowded Cork
Crowded Cork Patricks Street, Cork. October 1st 2005 This is one of the US photos I forgot to post!
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Hiking: What to take with you
Here’s a good article describing what you should take with you while hiking and how to take it too. The idea of charging batteries from a solar panel sitting on your backpack is cute!
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The New York City Skyline
Here’s a very impressive New York Panorama via Daily Web Thing. Nice!
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Noise Reduction the Open Source way
What are your options when you don’t run Windows or Mac and/or don’t want to use proprietary software? Niklas Saers covers some of the options in this blog post. Thanks to him, I learned about ISO Noise Reduction, a GIMP plugin, which I’ll give a try tomorrow. I usually use DCAM Noise, or selective blur…
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Blue Moon
Blue Moon Detail from a decorative earring, laid out on a newspaper. Aperture ƒ/2.8 Camera DMC-FZ5 Focal length 6mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/8s
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Stock photography? Is that a bad word?
Interesting thread on the EOS forums on stock photography websites. I’m a member of both Shutterstock and I Stock Photo but I haven’t been very persistent in uploading photos. After all the trouble one goes to to become a member it’s worth remembering to upload stuff sometimes!