Skerries Bohs win the league and cup double

I had a job for the Evening Herald a while back and it turned out one of the teams were from my local town, Skerries. Now I'm not being biased here but they are some team of footballers. They blew Shelbourne off the pitch for the entire game. Here are some of the shots from the game.

Urban Portraits

A graphic designer contacted me recently looking for photographs for his business. We decided on images with presence. Here is a small sample.

Salthill, County Galway

I'm heading down to the cliffs of Moher this weekend and Galway next weekend on photography jobs, here is a shot taken while down in Galway last year.

The Phoenix Park, Dublin

Walking back to my car after a job in the Phoenix Park the light behind this bench caught my eye. The wooden bench associated with the old tree also appealed to me..
I took the image in colour and processed it in photoshop.

Trip to Dingle, Co. Kerry for the Dingle Marathon

This weekend I found myself in Dingle, Co. Kerry for the Dingle Marathon. I decided to go down on the motorbike and made 860kms in two days. I'm feeling a little tender today but for the most part it was enjoyable. But I can't really complain. There were a few guys and girls running an ultra marathon, that's 50 miles!! Well done to everyone who took part but total respect to those ultra runners.


Well there was no way I traveling that distance and not getting a couple of landscapes. Its a long time since I have visited Kerry, I forgot how totally beautiful it is down there.
Here are a few photographs I took when I wasn't busy photographing runners.

Removing Global Colour Casts

Here is a really quick tip I have just discovered for removing colour casts from a image.
1. Open your image in Photoshop and press F7.
2. Copy your layer.
3. From the Filter menu select Average, this will give you the average colour of your image.
4. Change the Blend Mode of the layer to Colour.
5. From the Image menu select Adjustment/Invert, this will give you the opposite colour.
6. Simply reduce the opacity of your colour layer until you get a colour you are happy with.

Natural Light Portrait

Here are two edits of a natural light image I took of my daughter in France. I positioned my daughter with the sun behind her (so I was shooting into the sun) and I had a large white wall behind me. This large wall acted as a large fill reflector filling the shadows and taking down the contrast.

I set my camera to manual exposure, set the aperture I wanted (personally I like F4 to F5.6 for portraits like this, this was shot at F4), zoomed in my camera so I was only metering for the skin on the face and changed my shutter speed until the camera meter told me the exposure was correct.

With my exposure set I was free to concentrate on composition and interaction with my daughter. The result...a very pleasing portrait from my holidays in France.

Gavarnie, Hautes Pyrenees, France