Tag Archives: Photography

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!

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.

What Display Should I Buy? and Adding A Diffuse Glow To Your Images caught my eye before I head to bed.. zzzz. Damn, shouldn’t have had those cups of coffee this evening!

The Cork Ladies mini marathon is on tomorrow, starting at 2pm! I’m going in to take a few photos of the crowd and competitors! Hope we get the weather we had today!

In this latest tutorial from Digital Outback, the lack of decent histograms is shown by the author as a stumbling block towards properly exposed photos! *Phew* I didn’t mean for that sentence to be so convoluted!
Anyway, Thanks to Mark for pointing that out.

aaawww! Aren’t these kitten photos cute?

Lots of links here. Some good explanations too from a quick look!

A frame can really add to a photo – it’s something I haven’t looked at much, but these two photos, Summer Time and Untitled 1 both use whitespace to good effect! It looks like the subjects are bursting to get out of or squeeze into the frame!

The author has 3 nice photos in this photo essay although his concerns in the last part are something to think about – is it an invasion of privacy and immoral to take these photos? I don’t think so, but I thought the photos could have been much better if the author had been able to photograph the kids from the front instead of shooting their backs and arousing suspicions.
Street photography is almost always difficult and add to that, on a “lonely country road” I can’t imagine any kids who’d stop to have their photograph taken by a stranger..