Where were you today? I spent the day in Sneem, Co. Kerry and took several photos of this picturesque village and surrounding area. Very cold today but worth the visit just to get out and away from the world for a short while!
Tag Archives: Photography
Starting the year right..
Lots of photographic links I’d like to read up while I have time!
- Balance the light – dealing with colour correction,
Before anyone has a cow, understand all photographic processes are corrected to what the human eye sees…. My solution isn’t for everyone, but it works. Blast the heck out of all available light with a really powerful strobe at a high synch speed, on a low ISO with a small aperture (F/22 is my favorite). Then, the color of available light isn’t an issue. ;-}
- Photographs Everywhere, But Is It Really Art? – “the eye of the beholder?”
- Take Spectacular Nighttime Photos with your Digital Camera – Part I
- Tips to enjoy digital photography and safeguard holiday memories
- How to Take Digital Photos Indoors
- Current Trends in Wedding Photography via bdp
Horse and Rider on Beach
Beautiful afternoon, horse and rider out and about. Peace.
Boys At Play
Pictured at Garretstown Beach last Sunday. It was freezing but many people made the most of the dry, crisp weather and enjoyed themselves!
Creating LineArt from Photos
Yet another cartoon effect to try on my photos.
The examples on Creating LineArt from Photos look good, but they’re simple images. Anything with a complex background will probably make it throw a wobbler! Must try later!
Using Image Calibration Techniques to Reduce Noise in Digital Images
This is interesting, especially after reading the TNG article on astronomy this morning where these ideas are used, it’s great to see it described in such detail! Basically, noise in digital cameras isn’t as random as may it may seem, and if you have a calibration image with that noise intact, you can subtract the noise from any photo.
This tutorial explains all that in more detail and could be very useful for cameras that take RAW images, but I verified that jpeg files can’t be manipulated so successfully unfortunately!
No JPEG image can have its noise reduced by the calibration steps described here – the data is too drastically altered by compression to allow dark or bias subtraction to work right.
An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away
Not quite, but a fanciful idea. Apples are a good source of vital nourishment, probably worth keeping in mind when we’re stuffing our faces with chocolate and being generally glutonous!
Flying Home for Christmas?
The world’s airports are going to be thronged over the next few days with people returning to their families and homes for the Christmas holidays. Here’s a sight that lots of Cork people will be familiar with!
Santa's Flying In!
Only a few more days left and Santa will be flying around the world. Here he is landing at Cork Airport for a quick look around!
Delicious Photography Links
Via Thunderbird’s RSS reader…
- Unphotographable: an account of pictures missed
- Couloir.org: Resizing, Fading Slideshow Demo
- Unrelated News
- AutoStitch :: a new dimension in automatic image stitching
- Chicago Photobloggers
- Fair use of photos on blogs… the photographers speak out.
- Infrared Photography With a Digital Camera
- Near Infrared Digital Photography: A Tutorial
- Make your own recursive picture and animation
- The Atget Rephotographic Project similar to Chicago Then & Now
- Celeb Photos on Flickr
- Freefoto.com blog