Tag Archives: Photography

Here’s a write-up by the author of daily dose of imagery on how he “fixed” an image of a grain silo. What he did is admirable because there was very little contrast in the original photo. I wouldn’t have manipulated the sky so much(I’ve done it myself, so I recognise an attempt to bring out detail that just isn’t there!) but the silo and water is a great photo!

Theo Rigby was arrested and held for 48 hours for taking photos in New York. He was there covering the RNC and followed a protest march..
I was thinking of going the New York in March, but maybe South America would be safer for a photographer? I have a chance to go to Ecuador too. Where’d you go?

The SP list started work on a Street photography page on Wikipedia. It’ll be a great resource once it’s filled out as there’s a lot of talented people behind it.

It’s Photoshop specific but useful nonetheless.
Using Levels and Curves to Adjust Tonal Range, Contrast, and Brightness are concepts that transfer easily to the GIMP. (via Mark)

Rushing water over the wier at the Regional Park, Ballincollig, Cork.

Three Years On

Holding on against the tide..

I noticed for a while that the lens on my Sony F717 was getting just a little loose. It didn’t have the same firm feel to it that it had when I bought it a year ago. I didn’t think much of it except to presume that it was normal wear-and-tear.
Then 2 weeks ago I dropped my camera bag from my hand and it hit the floor lens first. It survived but the lens was even looser! That’d be fine with loose wemen around but not for taking photos which is how I stumbled across instructions for ripping a F717 apart! Thankfully it wasn’t necessary as all I had to do was tighten up a few small screws in the camera body and it’s back to it’s old self!
Hopefully this’ll fix it’s habit of shooting photos just a little off the horizontal. No matter how hard I tried there was always a pronounced off-horizontal lean in my photos. Yeah, it could be me too. heh.

The Gimp Guru continues his series of tutorials with an excellent one on removing haze from photographs. (He copied the technique from Luminous Landscape but the more GIMP material out there the better!)
I really like his explanation of Unsharp Mask, it’s the first one I’ve understood!

Last Monday I noticed for the first time this season, the Autumn colours creeping into the hedge-rows and trees. Hopefully we’ll have as spectacular a display as we had last year! This year I’ll attempt to record it as best I can! I went out with my camera yesterday to capture some of those changes.