Jun 30, 2010 0
My blog’s image content is now being served from the cloud courtesy of Dropbox and Amazon. All of the pertinent details are in the linked blog post above, so I’m really not of a mind to repeat them all verbatim here. The Super Duper Short Version:
There’s even a helpful arrow! Of helpfulness! :] There will be tons of photographs coming from next Monday-Tuesday onward.
Jun 30, 2010 0
This blog is not not not on any kind of hold or hiatus; instead I simply do not have any kind of content to upload to it. I’m on a break from photography because I am simply not inspired to go out and take photographs using the equipment I have right now. My lack of a decent any prime for my Canon is sorely felt. My body (Canon camera body!) is old. Past its prime. Compared to any 35mm film body, I can really feel its age in comparison to the more modern bodies of…three years later. Haha.
So what does this have to do with you, dear reader? I’ll be in Dublin on Sunday/Monday for a crash-course in black and white film development and scanning with Sinead. There will be photographic content, huzzah! Loads!
I will, in future, be forking off non-photographic content back onto Tumblr. Having learned my lesson from having to deal with a huge mass of untagged posts, I’m starting from scratch with a whole new tumblelog. As of this moment my DNS is still propagating, but you will be able to catch it back over on bhalash.com. Again. History repeats itself blah blah. Shut up.
I will be changing the theme, though. The Unstandard is a great, fun, graphically-oriented theme, but only if every single post is a photo post. Otherwise it starts to look kinda ugly. I have some more reservations beyond that with the theme, but they are minor and not something I’m going to let subtract from my strong like of it. I’ve become comfortable with the smaller base image size used in The Unstandard and will be looking for something clean and along those lines.
May 14, 2010 0
Earlier this week, I ran a very small contest on the Boards.ie photography forum to process two of my photographs, one of Galway’s Williamsgate Street and the second of Galway’s St. Nicholas’ church. I had some great responses on the thread in question, but the outright winner was Brian Healy, who won the voting by a clear margin.
To hear from the man himself about his method of and choices for processing:
I processed these in Adobe Photoshop CS4. I used the Silver Efex plugin from Nik Software to do the main conversion and then used curves adjustment layers with masking. I also did some dodging and burning on the church photo.
Silver efex is a specialist black and white conversion plugin, it allows for targeted adjustments of individual areas without the need for selections. You can also use different colour filters, toning etc. For these shots, I also used the ‘burn edges’ feature, which gives a vignette style effect, but you can use it on each edge of the photo individually. In the photo of the street corner, I used this on the left and right to draw attention to the centre of the photo. I used it on all sides of the church photo but more subtly.
The curves adjustment layers was just basic S-curves, and masked out in places where I thought it looked over contrasty.
I did some dodging and burning on the church, on a separate layer. I used a soft brush, about 5% opacity and adjusted down the opacity of the whole layer afterwards.
Finally, I sharpened the photos using Nik’s output sharpener. Again, this allows for selective sharpening without the need for complex selections.
To view some examples of my own photography, go to: www.brianhealyphotography.com
I have a range of prints for sale, and am also available for weddings, portraits, commercial photography etc.
I am currently based in Tipperary but am available nationwide.
May 13, 2010 2
Utilizing the spectacularly-easy-to-use WPtouch plugin, my site has been condensed into a mobile-browser friendly format, although at this moment I am given to understand that your mobile mileage will vary. Please comment here or contact me directly if you have any problems. Try to include platform, browser and (if possible) a screenshot.
May 12, 2010 1
A huge shout-out to everyone on Boards.ie who jumped in to offer their own interpretations of my processed photographs. Some of the results are truly eye-opening; either I never considered some of the styles used, or it revealed to me my own preferences for working on photographs.
Where they exist I have gone to the lengths to include website information. Where it doesn’t…please get in contact with me so that I can fill you in!
May 11, 2010 2
I got my eyes tested today, at Specsavers, and became intimately reacquainted with the lasting, searing agony that comes of having strobes flashed in my eyes.
So anways, while I have yesterday’s and today’s images ready to upload, I am not in the least bit inclined to sit in front of a bright monitor for several hours while my eyes send fiery hot bolts of pain into my brain. Instead I am asking you, the Twitterati and Facebookers who read my site. Process my images for me.
If you win, I will use your version here on my site. I will totally and completely pimp you and your site in the post and pimp you wherever this photograph may be used. To the victor, glory.
Day 131: http://img.bhalash.com/131.jpg
Day 132: http://img.bhalash.com/132.jpg
