§ September 15th, 2008
Attention All Members.
Digital images are required for selection for the upcoming 3rd FIAP Club’s World Cup competition. New Competition Secretary Sean Murphy and outgoing secretary David Lavery will both accept images for the competition. If emailing please send your digital files suitable for printing up 12×16 inches (300dpi) to David Lavery, email davsca@eircom.net or Sean Murphy, email sean.murphy.ie@gmail.com
Digital files must be with with either David or Sean by Friday 26th September 2008.
§ September 15th, 2008
Mallow camera club held its AGM on Monday 15th of September. It was a night for some out going members to be replaced by some new Committee members. Out going chair man John Hogan thanked all for there hard work through out the year. The new members are as follows,
Chair Person, Paddy Fennessy
Secretary, Barry Linehan
Treasure, Tim Geary
Competition Secretary, Sean Murphy
PRO, David Lavery
Contact Person For Outings, John Hooton
Committee Pat Sheehan, Rodney O’Callaghan, Pauline Dunlea, Jeremy Kingston,
§ September 15th, 2008
This photo reminds me of great times last year and I hope to rekindle them on Thursday. This will be my last post for a while and I’m considering shutting down the photoblog but have not decided for definite yet. Until I get back to posting why not check out my links for other excellent blogs to view.
§ September 15th, 2008
Two months ago today I started my photo365 project. It’s been fun, and sometimes difficult. Most days of the week I do something photo-worthy, though occasionally I will just sit at home and do nothing, these are the days I often find it difficult to get a photo, or nearly forget. These ones usually involve a photo of my desk, something on my desk, or my macbookpro. Not the most interesting, but that is all part of it, and part of life.
Here are a few of my favourites over the past 61 days:
Follow my progress on my Flickr stream.
§ September 15th, 2008
The annual Blarney Half Marathon ran through the village and surrounding countryside yesterday. Here’s a gallery of shots I took while walking the dog. A light drizzle of rain soaked everyone, and hurried my steps home and back to the warmth. The weather was much nicer last year!
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§ September 15th, 2008
There were mental queues for all the food stalls at the Lord Mayor’s Picnic in Fitzgerald’s Park during the summer. This was back in June when we actually had a fine sunny day, not that most people could remember what the sun looks like in Cork!
§ September 15th, 2008
The curves tool is a very basic tool that can be used to improve photos with a few clicks of the mouse. It is used to change the brightness and contrast of an image. It can also modify the separate Red, Green and Blue channels of an image too. The Curves Tool has a histogram to represent the shadow, midtone and highlight detail in the image. In the GIMP, you access it by right clicking on an image and go to Colors->Curves.
This is the second article in my GIMP for Photographers series, but as usual, all of this applies to Photoshop, or any other image application with a Curves Tool. The first tutorial was on The Levels Tool, and worth a read if you missed it!
Here’s an image I shot at the Lord Mayor’s Picnic in Fitzgerald’s Park a few months ago, and the Curve Tool below it. Notice the histogram? The photo is fairly well exposed, but some highlights are “clipped”, as the histogram hits right hand side without sloping off.
Brightening Curve
It’s easy to brighten an image. Just drag points on the line up.
Darkening Curve
Now, let’s darken the image by dragging points down.
Contrast Curve
A classic use of the Curves Tool is to increase contrast in an image. You do this by darkening the shadows, and brightening the highlights. The curve looks sort of like an “S” when you do this. Don’t go overboard on this though, because it’s easy to lose detail in either direction.
If for some reason your image has too much contrast, a quick inverted S curve will solve that problem,
Wacky Colours
You can select any of the Red, Green and Blue channels and do strange things to your photos. Here’s what happens when you play with the Red Channel.
And here’s what happens when you change multiple colour channels in different ways.
Colour Picker
After you have opened the Curves Tool, click anywhere in the image. Notice how a vertical line goes up and down the histogram/line? That vertical line is the colour of the pixel where you clicked. That can be useful if you’re trying to modify a particular part of a photo. This is what you get when you click on the black coat on the left of the image above.
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§ September 15th, 2008
Tullagh Cemetery in Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland is just a field away from the excellent Casey’s Hotel where we spent the last week. I went down there one evening to shoot a couple of half capsized trawlers in the bay when I turned around and saw some of the headstones silhouetted against the setting sun.
I went searching online and found that 3 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war were in this graveyard.
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