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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.
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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!
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Black & White Recipes
Here’s a long list of channel mixer settings to emulate various black & white films. I used the high contrast setting for the photo below but the different types of film create interesting effects. It’s worth checking them out, but don’t get hung up on them – one setting will suit one particular type of…
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Bird Feeding
Bird Feeding
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Maze
Maze
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Get your camera books here!
Ted Leung offers advice on what camera books to buy. I’ve read two of them, both books by Bryan Peterson: Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera Learning to See Creatively I have to echo Ted’s sentiments. “Understanding Exposure” was an eye opener for me, but “Learning to see…