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Photo Challenge – Day 10

June 10, 2010

Tonight I had fun playing about with this photograph, the photograph for today is of a Peacock. I took this photograph earlier this week when I was up in Dublin zoo. I think this bird is really beautiful looking and it’s tail is really amazing when it is opened.

I think the final Photoshop version of this photograph came out really well, I really wanted to enhance the colour of the Peacock and I think I achieved that, if you have any critique on this photograph feel free to leave me a comment :D.

If you want to know more about the Peacock, you can here.

I also created a short video of the Peacock which I recorded while I was at the zoo, the music I added to the video sounds strange so I just wanted to throw it in! Also the music is free / open-source!

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Photo Challenge – Day 9

June 09, 2010

Today’s photograph is from my trip to Dublin zoo yesterday. I took a photograph of two otters and i think that it looks good enough that i do not need to even attempt to make any photoshopped version of it :D. So today there is just one picture!

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Photo Challenge – Day 8

June 08, 2010

Today’s photograph is of a daisy. I took it a while ago when I was out in my garden during our kind of freak heat-wave! I then brought the daisy into Photoshop and greyscaled the background and also enhanced the colour of the centre of the daisy.

I also slightly blurred the white part of the daisy too, which I think has a good impact.

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My recent activities and future plans

June 07, 2010

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It has been a while now since I last made a blog post other than my daily posts for my photograph challenge! So today I thought I would put together a short sort of update post with what I have been getting up to lately!

For the most part of the last few days I have been working hard with Photoshop, trying to figure out what each setting does and what combinations I can use that will produce a good image. So far I think I have managed to produce decent results, however I think I can get better so luckily there is plenty more days left in this month for me to get to grips with Photoshop!

I also went on a hike up a mountain, I don’t know how many times over the past few days that I mentioned that I will be making a blog post about it, but I just haven’t had a minute to sit down long enough to make it. When I finally get time to sit down at the computer it is usually only enough time to create he post for my photo challenge.

I definitely guarantee that the post about my hike will be up within this week, and I have a lot more trips planned for this month with my friends so they should create some great opportunities for some more photographs for my challenge!

Also this month I have finally got started with my plan to kick some SEO (search engine optimization) ass! For over a year now I own the domain SeanLucas.com, and I have never really tried to get too high up in the Google search results for it, I only added in some basic SEO code and I am already up really high. Currently I sit at the third result in Google for my name, and I am going to aim high and challenge the first result listing!

To achieve this, SeanLucas.com is getting kicked up a notch because I am upgrading it to the wordpress platform. The design is going to most likely remain the same, but it will have the power of the wordpress SEO to hopefully get me a higher rank in Google! Time will tell with this!

Also I am creating my very first wordpress theme from scratch so it is an interesting experience and if I can make this theme successfully then I might try and make another one in the future for a free public release!

Just as a note, this is my second post for today, I have posted today’s photo challenge already and you can find it by clicking here!

Photo Challenge – Day 7

June 07, 2010

One week into the photograph challenge, and I am still going strong. Today’s photograph is a bird that was in my garden recently, I captured the photo and thought it was a good close up shot.

As usual have added in a tweaked version of this bird, I didn’t really do a lot with it, I think that the simple altering of the image to black and white and changing some density in the photograph makes it look good.

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