Jacinta, Jennifer and I went down to Gougane Barra yesterday and it was a glorious day to take photos! Pictures from the trip will appear over the next few days!
Does anyone have a definitive spelling for this place? I’ve called it “Gugan Barra” in the past, which seems more Irish than the previous spelling. *shrug*
Category Archives: Photography
All he's missing is the laptop..
got enough gear? – Thanks Pron for the headline 😉
(via Andy)
And in a related story, being accosted by strangers is a real problem for some people..
Oh look, back to class for some study!
From Snapshot to Fine Art – how to print!
Hiding
He hid but I found him! 🙂
What's Her Name?
We’re trying to come up with a name for her. There are a few suggestions but I don’t know yet..
Looks like she’s adopted us, so a call to the vet’s in order next week probably!
Here’s some reading for later:
- Cat Facts
- Zen Of Cats
- Clumping Clay – I’m sure you’re all dying to find out about this stuff 🙂
Magic wand and the rest of photoshop
Here’s a clever photo on photosig! Amazing what you can do to a photo with a little work on your PC!
Theoretical Limits to Data Enjoyment
Tom has a great article here. How much can we produce and consume effectively? Our computers and infrastructure are getting to a stage where it’s possible to collect or produce or hoard more personal data and media than we can consume easily!
He took 10,000 photos over the last three and a half years. I take that many photos in 6 months! How can I possibly look over those photos? It’s impossible isn’t it?
I’ve already reached the saturation point with traditional media – buy the Sunday Times on Sunday and maybe, just maybe, I’ll have it read by the following Sunday. I bought €25 worth of books last weekend. This adds to the pile of dead-trees I have yet to read. It’s stressful knowing there’s so much stuff to consume!
I don’t have the same problem with music – fire up xmms, load a playlist and there you go. I can listen to it while I work. It’s when the consumption of my personal data requires my primary attention that I get into trouble!
Maybe I should take that longed for holiday soon just to catch up on my reading?
The knot conspiracy – Wedding Photos From Both Sides
Oooh, this thread on dpreview caused a bit of a stir! Someone linked to this thread on theknot.com about copying the photos taken by professional wedding photographers. For some reason the original message is gone but the replies remain.
In this digital world it’s getting harder and harder to prevent copyright theft, and even though the bride and groom paid for the photos, the copyright for those photos remains with the photographer.
Woofy had a good idea – offer images on CD, perhaps only low-res ones with prints later. Darrell refined the idea by suggesting he provide one or two high quality prints as well.
At the end of theknot.com thread several photographers joined in, no doubt from dpreview, their comments are worth reading, if only to remind oneself that for these people, photography is a business.
These linked generated a great conversation on #linux, which did *not* descend into puns or jokes, although that could be because Kevin wasn’t around..
Pseudo-IR Tutorial
Nice! This tutorial describes how to convert a “normally shot” photograph into an infra-red photo. It uses Photoshop, but the techniques described can be done in the GIMP too! Here’s a few more bits too.
While we’re on the subject, here are the top 10 signs you spend too much time at STF! hehe.
Online Photo Magazines
Why buy paper magazines when there’s so much good stuff being published online? That’s what I want to know! Here in Ireland we have to pay tax on magazines that adds an exorbitant cost to magazines from the UK.
Mark noticed that Vivid Light Photography #38 is out now, and Photo Focus is for me, like Mark, a mag I’d never come across before!
GIMP Intelligent Background Eraser
Here’s a plugin for the GIMP that you can use to erase the background.. a Windows .exe is included, and source but not a Makefile. My interest doesn’t extend to writing one unfortunately!
Gimp plugin for “intelligent Erasor”
replace the selection with an interpollated background. If the border along the selection is relatively continuous, i.e. a pretty boring background, then this tool works as an erasor.