Photos – Page 10 – Something Odd!

Horse

Today I took delivery of a new Canon 75-300 IS USM lens. It’s a nice zoom lens, although seemingly slated by everyone who has used more expensive lenses. That seems to be par for the course – the lenses I can afford aren’t up to much apparently.
On the way home I took a few photos of horses in a nearby field. Here’s one I liked..
Here’s a 100% crop fron the photo below. The shot out of the camera is a little soft but hover over the photo to see what effect a simple unsharp mask does for the sharpness of the image.

Ardmore Village and Round Tower

Following on from Frank’s suggestion a few days ago I took a trip down to Ardmore yesterday!
Alas, I have a sorry tale to tell, my trusty Sony 717 camera may have shot it’s last photo. It now sees nothing but black and I’ll have to inquire about getting it fixed. Missed the beautiful sunset later of a blazing red ball of flame setting over Youghal later too! *sob*

James Blonde – Super Spy

Shocking night in Kinsale on Saturday. Happy birthday Justin! Anyone else see this secret agent around the place? He was keeping a low profile and so hard to spot.

GIMP Lomo Examples

mF’s GIMP Lomo script that I mentioned already works a treat with the settings he suggested! It works fine in GIMP 2.2 and here’s an example to prove it! Daffodils pictured by the Ballincollig Bypass in Co. Cork a few days ago.

Original

Lomoified

Fly Away!

A pigeon wanders along the street in Galway.

All Tied Up

A fishing boat tied up in Galway Harbour.

Fishing Boat Rope

Rope from a fishing boat in Galway Harbour.

Sneem Sunset – 3 photo panorama

The picture above is a panorama made up of 3 hand-held shots taken in Sneem, Co. Kerry.

Stitching them together in the GIMP was fairly easy – adjust colours and brightness, line them up using semi-transparent layers and then use a layer mask and a gradient to make the joins mostly invisible. The tree branches were a bother though – I had to clone out some of them!

I really should document some of this stuff as this was a good example – because of the sunset each photo had very different light qualities and it was important to fine tune and match those colours.

Crash in Tower

Spotted on the way to work. The wreck was gone by the time I passed by on the way home yesterday evening. It’s a long straight road at that point..

Local History, Global Reach

Iniscarra Cemetery, just a few miles from where I work, holds the remains of one "Mary William, daughter of John Stewart of Belfast. Wife of the very reverend Theophilius Blakely, Dean of Down". She’s also the mother of Captain Theophilus Alexander Blakely, a prolific designer of rifled cannon and the inscription on the side of his mother’s tomb bears witness to that: