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  • English Market Seller


    English Market Seller

    There’s a wonderful looking olive and spice stall in the English Market!
    Unfortunately it is always mobbed with customers making it difficult to capture a photo of it but I raised my camera into the air and shot this blind.
    The original is quite grainy as I used a high ISO of 3200 to compensate for the bad light.
    Workflow:

    • Increased the saturation slightly.
    • Unsharp mask with a radius of 5 to bring out the grain more.
    • Duplicate layer and used the Threshold tool to isolate bright parts.
    • Blur the top layer with a radius of 25 pixels.
    • Set the top layer mode to “Soft Light”.
    • Saved a .xcf version, .jpg and a resized jpeg too. I didn’t unsharp mask the resized version.

    Hope you find that useful!

    Aperture ƒ/3.5
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 3200
    Shutter speed 1/320s
    December 29, 2005
  • Fog Laden Trees


    Fog Laden Trees

    Trees in Blarney on a foggy day

    Aperture ƒ/6.3
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/50s
    December 28, 2005
  • Swans in darkness


    Swans in darkness

    Swans pictured at The Lough last night.

    December 27, 2005
  • Run around and around!


    Run around and around!

    Children running around a labyrinth on The Grand Parade.
    Schools, churches, community groups and businesses around Cork were asked to design them as part of the closing ceremonies of Cork City of Culture 2005.

    Fediverse reactions
    • Gruppetto
    • Wilfried Strang
    December 26, 2005
  • Audience


    Audience

    Through a break in the crowd I spotted a little girl watching a band play on the street in front of Brown Thomas.

    Nollaig Shona daoibh! (translation)

    December 25, 2005
  • Santa’s on his way!


    Santa’s on his way!

    Tonight Santa visits as the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus over 2000 years ago.

    December 24, 2005
  • Scapa Flo, Blackpool Shopping Center


    Scapa Flo, Blackpool Shopping Center

    Scapa Flo played for free in aid of the Belarussian Orphanage Project. Pictured here are 3 of the band members.

    December 23, 2005
  • Christmas Goods For Sale


    Christmas Goods For Sale

    At Blackpool shopping center there was a charity event for the Belarussian Orphanage Project. A band played inside and just inside the main doors they were selling Christmas cards and small gifts. Not sure if I should have left this as a colour image but I think as a character study of the boy and woman it works much better in black and
    white.

    December 22, 2005
  • Off The Wall


    Off The Wall

    Pictured at the Blarney Woollen Mills a week ago.

    Links of the Day

    • Retouching Magazine Cover – magazine photos have to feature pixel perfect beautiful men and women. This girlpower Flash presentation goes through all the little touch ups that go into improving a model’s eye, nose, cheeks, lips, breasts, waist and more until she is not the person who stood in the studio. (via)
    • Digital Photography World has published some great articles recently including image management now that he’s gone completely digital.
    • John Engler’s photography section of his blog has lots of good stuff, including 3 introductory articles: What’s an SLR Anyways?, Film Speed, Aperture. (via)
    • I posted the last two US photos: Chatting and Shopping and Crowded Cork. The collection is complete!

    Don’t go to bed reading a photographic book, you’ll get up again to “try out” the new techniques you read about.

    December 21, 2005
  • A rose by any other colour


    A rose by any other colour

    One of the Blarney Castle roses.
    The original was very saturated and detail was lost in the bright red of the petals. Making a monochrome image made the detail stand out and drops became visible again.
    A little dodge and burn to finish.

    December 20, 2005
  • Smile Please!


    Smile Please!

    Guy in a clown suit walking around town. Not everyone was amused!

    December 19, 2005
  • Wet Day Shopping


    Wet Day Shopping

    Couple walking along Patricks Street Cork on Saturday.

    December 18, 2005
  • Mick Flannery at the Spiegeltent (2006)
  • Thomas Hawk is defending himself from Jill Greenbe
    A Photo – how far would you go? (2006)
  • Shoe Shopping (2007)
  • McCarthy’s Garage, Schull (2008)
  • Youghal Post Office (2009)
  • Ship Leaving Cork Harbour (2015)
  • London Street Photography (2016)
  • Foggy Trees (2017)
  • Battle of the Dogs (2018)
  • In the Lanzarote Sunshine
    In the Lanzarote Sunshine (2021)
  • Can I have a doggy bag?
    Can I have a doggy bag? (2022)
  • A swallow flies past fields and sheep, free in the air.
    Flying over fields (2023)
  • The Rocks of Ballycotton (2024)
  • Helios in the Cathedral (2025)
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