May 24 | 2008


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Sports

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Junior Liffey Descent 2008

Good evening folks,
Well today I headed off to the Liffey but sadly left the boat at home this time :( A nice 2/2.5mg release for the Junior Liffey Descent was supplied by EBS. There was a good turnout and also plenty of playboaters taking advantage of the release at Sluice.

 

 

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May 16 | 2008


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At Night

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Life Is A Mystery

I went to see ‘The National‘ this evening in the Olympia and Wow! These guys are amazing live, I saw them this time last year in the Ambassador and they’re just brilliant. After the show I went to Temple Bar to take a few shots. Here’s two from this evening:

 

 

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May 14 | 2008


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Portrait/Modelling

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Beautiful Buddy

Another lovely sunny evening and what better way to spend it than to go out and have a wee play with the madra. He’s a collie/red setter mix; the red tint off his coat when the sun shines on him is mesmerizing!! If you’ve read some of my other posts you will know that lately I want to try getting into some more portrait/model work.

Welcome my first ever four legged model, Buddy!

 

 

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May 14 | 2008


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Macro

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First Attempt At Summer Macro Shots

Ho Ho Ho

Yes, that’s right folks it was as far back as Christmas when I actually bought this little baby

 

 

 

I really haven’t used this lense at all this year, 120/180 shots would be my guestimate. Now with the lovely weather, lovely flowers and insects passing by theirs no better reason to start using this lense.

 

Here are some of the shots from Monday May 12th:

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May 11 | 2008


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Tutorial

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Counting Layers In Photoshop

Have you ever wanted to know how many layers are currently in your .pdf/.psd file? Simple, the answer is 3, or 8 or even 17. I’m not talking about simple files like this one.

 

Three layered .psd in photoshop

 

Ok, so clearly you can work that one out for yourself…. theirs three layers in that file. How about this file?

 

 

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May 11 | 2008


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At Night, Landscape, Macro

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Some new Pictures

I haven’t been getting much time lately to get out taking pictures, sadly. Here’s some shots I’ve taken over the past month, I haven’t had the time to look at them properly until now

This first shot was taken in Glendalough, Co.Wicklow.

 

Glendalough Graveyard

 

 

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May 11 | 2008


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Freestyle At Sluice – The Kelleher Brothers

The following photo’s were taken on the same day as my Descriptive Timeline Action Shot, tutorial here. They were taken at a playhole called ‘Sluice’ or sometimes known as ‘The Sluice’ located in Lucan. I’ve popped the location into Google maps for you at the end of this post and here’s a link to the large version.

 

Here’s the two best shots of the day
Moe and Lenny Kelleher

Moe Kelleher At Sluice

 

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May 4 | 2008


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Desctiptive Timeline Shot, Sports, Tutorial

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Creating A Descriptive Timeline Action Shot

Hello and welcome to my first tutorial! I’m going to work you through one of my latest kayaking shots. This was my first attempt at this type of shot/Photoshopped image. I’ve gotten some good feedback about the image, which is always great. The shot is quite dark but in saying that, the location of the shoot is very tough for a photographer. Light is quite scarce and there are only so many places one would want to stand with a camera. I actually did a rescue course here three weeks back and was swimming through the play hole plenty of times over the weekend. It’s all very safe but I don’t think my poor camera would think the same.

Runin To Sluice, Lucan

 

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