Monthly Archives: August 2008

Spectra Photo / Digital Beginners Travel Competition

Spectra / Digital Beginners Travel Photography Competition

Grand Cen­tral, New York — Just try tak­ing out a tri­pod here!

I haven’t often entered pho­tog­ra­phy con­tests, pri­mar­ily because I couldn’t decide what shots to sub­mit (as you will soon see, that hasn’t changed much!). Spec­tra Photo & Dig­i­tal Begin­ners are run­ning a travel pho­tog­ra­phy con­test together, which was right up my street, look­ing for pho­tos that show the exotic nature of travel. The rules are very open, and there is no limit to the num­ber of images you can sub­mit. Clos­ing date is mid­night on Sun­day 7th of Sep­tem­ber 2008, so don’t hang around! Read more to see my entries…

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New gallery — Mundy @ Dolans

Mundy @ Dolan's Warehouse

Mundy @ Dolan’s Warehouse

I just posted some new shots on Flickr from a con­cert by Mundy at Dolans Ware­house in Lim­er­ick. Enjoy!

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The Most Difficult Photographic Skill — Rating Your Photos!

Is this my best photo?

Is this my best photo?

Is this my best photo?

It is if you are to believe the hive mind of Flickr, but I am not sure. Rat­ing your own photo’s, fil­ter­ing out the good from the bad, is pos­si­bly the most dif­fi­cult pho­to­graphic skill in my opin­ion. Nowa­days, with Dig­i­tal Camera’s we can eas­ily take more and more photo’s, we can store them, organ­ise them, and manip­u­late them eas­ier than ever. In order not to be over­whelmed (or to over­whelm oth­ers :-) ) with this vol­ume, we need to choose the best and dis­card the rest. Whit­tling them down to the best of the best is fraught with emo­tional bag­gage, what if’s, “I can fix that…”, and “safe it for later” moments. I really strug­gle with this, and I am guess­ing I am not alone… […]

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