Category: Photography

#4 Esther (aka my Mum)

Canon 10D 85mm, f2.8, 1/90, ISO 100

Only Day 4 and already I’ve failed at taking a portrait. The weather was just so nasty today that there was no way I was going for a walk with my camera! Still, my portrait for the day is one I took a few weeks ago of my gorgeous Mum at the dental clinic where she works.

BTW, nominations for the 2008 Irish Blog Awards are now open. Damien has restructured things this year so no more massive petitioning for votes, once a blog has been nominated the winners will be decided by a panel of judges. So, head on over and give some of your favourite blogs a nomination…this one too if you’re so inclined! Thank you Ryan for being kind enough to include a plug for my blog and for pointing out a couple of photoblogs I’d not come across before.

Photography Portrait A Day

#3 Peter

Canon 10D 85mm, f5.6, 1/90, ISO 800

This is Peter who is the first bona fide person that I didn’t already know. It took me over an hour of walking to finally pluck up the courage to talk to someone and ask for their photo but Peter was very friendly even though he was busy working. I like this one in colour although you can see the black and white one here if you wish.

Update: Yes, I changed my mind about which one I liked the best…it’s the red hair that swung it for me I think 🙂

Photography Portrait A Day

#2: Freddy

Canon 10D 85mm, f2.8, 1/250, ISO 100

…I never said they were all going to be human portraits did I? This is Freddy, a bundle of wonderful, puppy energy. This was the only split second of time he gave me to capture him and then he was off again. He’s a rescue dog that got a loving home this Christmas.

Photography Portrait A Day

Portrait A Day #1: Maurice

Post author By Claire
Post date January 1, 2008
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Canon 10D 85mm, f2.8, 1/250, ISO 100

For 2008 I wanted to give myself a personal photography project, something to get me out and taking photos every day for no other reason than for the love of it. So my goal is to take a portrait a day for every day this year. This is the first…Maurice of the intrepid Greystones Winter Zimmer Swimmers after a bracing New Year’s Day dip in the Irish Sea.

Photography Tutorials and Reviews

Lighten Up Photoshop Tutorial

Post author By Claire
Post date December 28, 2007
8 Comments on Lighten Up Photoshop Tutorial

So what do I do when I have a few days off? I play around with photoshop of course. They say that when you do what you love you’ll never work a day in your life, but the reverse is that you’ll also never really have a day off! Anyway, I thought it might be nice to do another photoshop tutorial, this time explaining the method I used on the photographs in yesterday’s post.

Eve and I were messing around yesterday afternoon, she was jumping on the bed and I was trying to snap a few shots of her in action. It was a cloudy afternoon and the light in the spare bedroom was dull. I needed a fast shutter speed to capture her so my ISO had to go up to 800 (even then the shots came out pretty blurry as you can see in the previous post) which means grainy photos from my 10D. In the end the results straight from the camera needed a bit of help. I shoot everything in RAW format (rather than JPG) which DSLRs allow you to do, this means that I have a lot more leeway when it comes to working with dodgy conditions…and if all that just stepped too far over the techy line for you just allow your eyes to glaze over and click on to the tutorial to see how I made the above image: