I took this while sitting bored out in the sun beside my flat. I was simply pointing my camera at random stuff – clouds, grass, fences, runners; most turned out crap but this turned out OK. I hadn’t realised I’d used such a short focal length until now but at least one flower is on focus!
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Here’s another of Phoenix Park – the place is absolutely huge!
I’m hopefully back from Malta today, plenty of new picture to sift through!
Camera Settings (1 NEF files – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens, No Tripod)
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This is Phoenix Park: the largest public park in Europe! Wooooo!
I’m still in Malta (I left on Tuesday), and will get back on Saturday, in the meantime, hopefully everything is running smoothly here!
Camera Settings (1 NEF files – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens, No Tripod)
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There was a large flock of flamingos near here (you can see them to the right) but I just couldn’t get a good shot of them so I had to settle for this bridge instead. Oh well.
Camera Settings (1 NEF files – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens, No Tripod)
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There were two sea otters having a whale of a time in the pool here but unfortuantely they wouldn’t stay still long enough to take a picture. This guy however had nowhere else to go, it’s a crane right?
Camera Settings (1 NEF files – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens, No Tripod)
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This fearsome fellow would not turn around and smile for the camera unfortuantely; although I probably wouldn’t either if I was locked up in a cage being gawked at by a group of apes.
Camera Settings (1 NEF files – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens, No Tripod)
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Well I visited Dublin Zoo today for the first time ever. Overall I was satisfied; I saw plenty of animals so anything else would have been a bonus (there was nothing else). Plenty of walking was involved – all in all it took maybe 3 hours to get around everything. Then I went to a Chinese buffet restaurant and stuffed my fat face for just €9,90 – a good day overall then.
That blurry yellow streak near the right hand side of the photos is actually a long piece of grass thats out of focus, really that was the ONLY spot I could stand in.
Camera Settings (1 NEF files – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens)
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This stream/bruck/river/cadever runs near my college and is home to some of the most rickety bridges known to man. They can carry one stream of traffic; so if you happen to be standing on one such bridge and another person wishes to get by, you have to lean over the edge and pray to Poseidon not to pull you in.
Did you get yesterday’s post at full resolution (4319x2866pixels)???
Camera Settings (5 NEF files – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens)
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Dublin, River, Nature, Water, Stream, Bruck
It’s not just Paris that boasts an Eiffel Tower – Dublin has one aswell! OK it’s not quite as tall, it’s not as wide, tourists don’t go there and it’s rather flimsy looking, but is it situated on the RTE gounds, our national television broadcaster. Here, the best people that Ireland has to offer congregate – Pat Kenny, Ryan Tuberty, Gerry Ryan, amazing people.
A couple of people have asked whether I sell any photos – I don’t, not because I don’t want to, I’d love to!!, but I’m too lazy to set up any kind of shopping / checkout cart paypal thingy. Instead, I’ll start posting full resolution pics aswell from time to time, starting with the one you see today, that’s around 4288x2848pixels! It’s a bit blurry at full resolution since I took this from a bridge that was vibrating with all the traffic underneath 
I’ll stick the link for them in the RSS and email feeds so only my loyal subscribers can enjoy them! (It may take a day or so for the feed to refresh with the link so if it’s not there don’t fret! I will be soon enough!)
Also some critical comments on the image at full resolution would be most welcome! Does it look good? Awful? Just go crazy with your thoughts!
Camera Settings (5 NEF files – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens)
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Dublin, Rte
This is simply a weird statue on display in Stephen’s Green. I was waiting for ages to take this shot since there were a pack of douchebags acting like dickheads at the stone pillars behind the statue. A few of them were on one side while another stuck his fat head through, making faces. Uhhhh…
Apparently I’m heading to Malta next Tuesday for 5 days so I should have a fresh batch of shots to process – my Paris set is running a little dry.
Camera Settings (1 NEF file – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens)
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I don’t get this tree. OK I’ll elaborate a little, it’s the only tree of it’s kind in the entirety of Stephen’s Green. It looks so out of place and every time is pass it I wonder ‘Why?’.
I had taken 5 exposures using a tripod but in HDR Max the underexposed shots were too strong and were dulling the blended exposure shot too much so I just went ahead and tonemapped the metered shot.
Camera Settings (1 NEF file – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens)
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More pigeons! This is the exact same scene, just a few moment in the future. These flying fuckers swooped down in an instant, practicaly killing some sweet someone’s nan who was just trying to spread breadcrumbs out for them. Flying rats meh.
Camera Settings (1 NEF file – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens)
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Oooooh I’ve just eaten a huge stir-fry with friends and am quite satisfied if I do say so myself. This is of course the River Liffey, the main (and only) river flowing through the wonderful city of Dublin. I had intended finishing the time-lapse video that it seems I will never finish but it was just too cold for me to bother, so I took this instead. There is a bit of noise in the water – I’ve never played around with noise reduction software but I’ll get onto that soon.
Camera Settings (1 NEF file)
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Dublin, River, Liffey, Water, Lights, Long Exposure
With 7 minutes before midnight I’m finally getting around to posting today’s picture – I want to get through the entire year without missing a single day and today is the closest I’ve come to actually doing so! My reason for being so late is that today was Pancake Tuesday, where everyone celebrates the fact that Jesus really loved pancakes or something. Really we should celebrate that everyday.
I’ve intentionally left in the multiple instances of the seagull flying overhead, either because I think it looks really great, or I’m too lazy to fix it.
Camera Settings (5 NEF files)
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Dublin, Stephen’s Green, Nature, Green, Lake, Water
I grabbed this shot just as I was leaving home for college yesterday. Increasingly I’ve been regretting not having my camera with me at least once a day now so I’ve begun bringing it with me where ever I go. So what about a tripod? At the moment that’s a bit too much – as such most of my recent pictures have been processed using just one NEF file rather than the five that I would take if I had the time
Camera Settings (1 NEF file)
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Usually using multiple exposures when creating HDR photos can give rise to ghosting in the picture – whereby moving objects are in different positions in each exposure. It’s usually really annoying but for once it’s actually work to this pictures advantage – the small flock of five birds all flying neatly one behind the other is actually just the same bird five times!
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Stephens Green, Dublin, Lake, Water, Bridge, Birds, Calm, Peaceful
OK last snow picture I swear! The snow has officially left Ireland and I’m depressed by it. No more snowballing random people with umbrellas, no more ducks slipping over ice covered lakes, no more high heeled D4 girls looking like flamingos hopping through a cactus patch. Oh well…..
This was taken as a jpg, I tried tone mapping it in HDR Max but since there were not many tones in the picture to begin with it didn’t have too much of an effect 
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It snowed rather unexpectedly on Thursday in Dublin so I was caught without a camera. I had to head back to my accommodation, pick up my compact and return to campus. Footprints had already destroyed the homogeneous white of the snow blanketed ground almost everywhere, which sucked, so I was lucky to find this one set of footprints by themselves. I wonder where their owner is now?
My first time-lapse video has been on hold for a week now on account of it being freezing cold at night – with any luck the weather wont be so bad for the coming week and I’ll be able to get it finished…
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Unfortunately the snow is melting now – soon Dublin will forgot it ever snowed
This is another jpg shot with my Olympus – I’m pretty surprised/impressed the way they are being processed by HDR Max, I’ll have to try shooting in jpg some scenes with more colour to see what HDR Ma does to them.
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