Good photo that’d be much better if it had been rotated just a teensy bit to the left. Hope he used a zoom to get so close..
Category Archives: Photography
Polarizers.. Can you see a difference?
This thread is interesting if you’ve wondered what use polarizers are. This message has 2 photos in it, with and without polarizer, and the difference is striking.
Here’s a lengthy article linked from the thread above. Lots here.
Finally, here’s a technical explanation on how polarizers work!
Set Yourself Free!
Mike Johnston is looking forward to better weather and suggests ways for photographers to take better photos. Nice, easy to read article and more to do with social engineering than any techincal aspect of picture taking.
We bought the Canon A70!
My dad was looking at buying a Canon A70 and I eventually settled on 7 Day Shop in the UK as they’ve the best prices. When I bought from them in the past I received my goods promptly and without a problem.
‘Course, I was sorely tempted to splash out on a 256MB USB keyring, and some more filters for my camera, and a new flash, and.. maybe after I’ve moved into the new house!
Later.. I don’t recommend 7dayshop any more. Read my 7dayshop review and please avoid them!
Panoramic Images with the GIMP
I read about Pandora, a GIMP plugin to aid in the creation of panoramic photos. I’ll hopefully get to use it tonight on some photos I took last night. The author suggests chapter 7.5 of Grokking the GIMP for more info on panoramic photos.
Around Cork..
Bush may not get a Cead Mile Failte when he visits Ireland! The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has asked that people not protest but that’s just pouring more fuel on the fire of discontent.
Don’t we live in a democracy?
(As an aside, note the maker of the rubbish bin this poster is stuck to? Quite a coincidence that a socialist poster should appear directly below his name!)
Later, it looks like Dublin City Council is refusing permission for groups to put up those posters. Anti-war bodies are calling it censorship. The Council says it’s a litter problem.
Don’t we live in a democracy?
(As an aside, note the maker of the rubbish bin this poster is stuck to? Quite a coincidence that a socialist poster should appear directly below his name!)
Later, it looks like Dublin City Council is refusing permission for groups to put up those posters. Anti-war bodies are calling it censorship. The Council says it’s a litter problem.
As I posted before, the girl holding this sign was reading a book. I like this “found” picture – she’s engrossed in her book and oblivious to the crowds passing by!
That closing down sale is lasting quite a while..
That closing down sale is lasting quite a while..
Good crowd photos..
Mark’s posted some excellent photos of a council tax protest in the UK. Love the “GO” one!
Pic of the Day
Isn’t this photo one of the cutest kitten pictures ever? Either that, or he’s preparing to jump and snatch at the hand of the photographer.. Yes, I know cats, they’re evil sometimes! *grin*
Boat on the Lee
For the last few days I’ve noticed that the boat used by the workmen on Saturday was tied up in the middle of the river. This morning I stopped and took some photos of it, and played around with a few tools in the GIMP.
I’m sure I used them before, but the “Colour Enhance” tool and “Filter Pack” are very useful for adding a little more atmosphere and feeling to a photo.
The steeple reflected in the river is Holy Trinity Church on Father Mathew Quay. That church itself makes an imposing sight, especially when it’s lit up at night!
I uploaded the last photo above to photoSIG too although trying to attract the attention of visitors there is quite difficult as “boat on river” photos are two a penny there!
Forgot to say, I’m still very impressed by the Linux 2.6 kernel. I had 3 2560×1920 images open in the GIMP, and I had modified each several times so that the undo-buffer was filling up nicely. Under Linux 2.4 my machine would have been unusable, but Mozilla Firefox (with about a dozen tabs on 2 windows), Xchat and Thunderbird all remained responsive and none of them were swapped out! (The machine has 512MB of RAM, so Linux 2.6 doesn’t work miracles, it just handles resources much better!)
Eject!
Amazing image of an emergency ejection from a low flying plane. Be warned that it’s a huge 3008×1960 pixel image and you probably don’t want to download it if you’re only using a modem!
