Today is My Gift To You today features one of the photos I submitted to Today FM! Thanks James! I took the picture just outside my home after I heard that Mairead on the show liked pictures of flowers.
I must put the rest of the Us photos online soon. Stay tuned!

Defy Gravity

This is my first time searching Google Video and I came across this cool Skateboarders In Cork video while searching for “Ireland”. I recognise some of the lads, and it was shot on location in Emmet Square (photo above was shot there), UCC, CIT (I think), South Mall, over near the Victoria Hospital and elsewhere. Very nice work.

Caught in mid-flight at the Lough, Cork

Post processing:

• Converted from RAW with gimp-ufraw
• Rotated and cropped a much larger image, this is why the extra mega pixels are handy!
• Cleanup with Dcam noise, sharpen with unsharp mask.
• Colour adjustment with colour mixer.
• Resize and unsharp mask again.
• Duplicate Layer. Bottom layer is blurred with a radius of 15 pixels, and brightened significantly.
• Set layer mode of top layer to “Overlay” to give the soft light/starry light effect.