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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!
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The Bride and Groom
The Bride and Groom On the weekend that we had our pre-marriage course, a wedding was held in the Honan Chapel in UCC. Here’s the Bride and Groom greeting people after the ceremony. No doubt they’re all partying away in some hotel now! Aperture ƒ/5.6 Camera DMC-FZ5 Focal length 72mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/400s