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Onwards And Upwards

Stephen — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:20:56 +0000

Getting nervous now! Tomorrow week I’ll be on a plane to Japan for a year! So many things to get sorted still!

Todays photo is from the very very bottom of Lugnaquilla, a mountain in Co. Wicklow. It’s a very good walk to the top you should try it if you’re ever in the area

If you’re interested in knowing how I made this, along with my other photos, you can check out my HDR Tutorial

Technorati Tags: ireland, hiking, green, nature, natural, hdr, tone mapping, nikon, d300, projectvisual, “hdr photography”

Slowly Clearing Out Junk

Stephen — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:32:04 +0000

I never realised how difficult it was to move to a different country! It’s amazing the amount of junk one accumulates over the years, and most of it is stuff you never really use for anything. I’ve got three essentials items that I “NEED”: my laptop, camera and ipod. The rest is just superfluous. I’ve now got just ten days left in Ireland before jetting off to live amongst the Japanese for a year and I still feel like I’ve got a million things to sell!

If you’re interested in knowing how I made this, along with my other photos, you can check out my HDR Tutorial

Technorati Tags: ireland, hiking, green, nature, natural, JET, hdr, tone mapping, nikon, d300, projectvisual, “hdr photography”

This Time Two Weeks I’ll Be Living In Japan

Stephen — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:18:30 +0000

My time in Ireland is nearing an end. On the 23rd July I’ll be heading off with about 40 other Irish folk and taking up residence in Japan for at least a year. This is all part of the JET Program, an effort by the Japanese government to promote internationalism and understanding between the japanese people and foreigners. I’m gonna be spending the next year in a little place called Sanda City, just north of Kobe. It’s really a great looking location, not too urban, but close enough to get to some big cities without much notice.

If you’re interested in knowing how I made this, along with my other photos, you can check out my HDR Tutorial

Technorati Tags: ireland, hiking, green, nature, natural, JET, hdr, tone mapping, nikon, d300, projectvisual, “hdr photography”

The Four Star Pizza Delivery Car

Stephen — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:42:32 +0000

My internet has been on the fritz for the last few days so I’ve been unable to post until now .

This car is parked just down the road from my house, begging to be snapped. And for anyone wondering, Dominos Pizza is the best!

If you’re interested in knowing how I made this, along with my other photos, you can check out my HDR Tutorial

Technorati Tags: car, vehicle, technology, automobile, shiny, hdr, tone mapping, nikon, d300, projectvisual, “hdr photography”

Floodwaters Ahoy!

Stephen — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:36:16 +0000

I went a bit overboard with the post processing on this one I think, still finding my way with using Photoshop gradient tools and filters and all other types of goodies! It’s in Glendalough, Dublin btw

On a side note I did a quick Google search of my website for the keyword/phrase “hdr photography”, and I come up as the tenth search result! That’s on page one! Out of 5,660,000 results is pretty cool! It’s worth noting though that my browser uses Google.ie as default, not Google.com, so I imagine the results are somewhat biased towards Irish based sites. I still have some way to go before I get to Page One on Google.com I did save a picture here though for posterity! The actual content that Google references is me talking about CaptainKimo’s new HDR ebook.. Even Google thinks it’s worth a read!

If you’re interested in knowing how I made this, along with my other photos, you can check out my HDR Tutorial

Technorati Tags: glendalough, lake, water, grass, landscape, nature, hdr, tone mapping, nikon, d300, projectvisual, “hdr photography”

Garden Dandelions

Stephen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:32:18 +0000

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!

Technorati Tags: dublin, flowers, dendelion, macro, nikon, d300, projectvisual

Path In Phoenix Park

Stephen — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:00:14 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@18mm
Shutter Speed: 1/250s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Zoo, Tree, Flowers, Grass, Nature

A View Of Phoenix Park

Stephen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:00:50 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/5.3
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@105mm
Shutter Speed: 1/100s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Zoo, Dublin, Chimp, Ape

The Pensive Ape

Stephen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:00:45 +0000

This chimp looked dead depressed – do you agree with keeping animals in cages?

Camera Settings (1 NEF files – Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens, No Tripod)

Aperture: f/5.3
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@105mm
Shutter Speed: 1/100s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Zoo, Dublin, Chimp, Ape

Walkway Of The Flamingos

Stephen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:00:15 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@18mm
Shutter Speed: 1/800s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Zoo, Walkway, Flamingo, Water, River, Lake,

Crane By The Pool

Stephen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:30:50 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 250
Lens: 18-200@200mm
Shutter Speed: 1/250s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Zoo, Crane

Camera Shy Tiger

Stephen — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:20:20 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@46mm
Shutter Speed: 1/100s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Paris, Zoo, Tiger

Meeting The Apes At Dublin Zoo

Stephen — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:45:45 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@120mm
Shutter Speed: 1/125s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Paris, Car, Strange, Vehicles

The Babbling Bruck

Stephen — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:45:34 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@18mm
Shutter Speed: 1/500s, 1/250s, 1/125s, 1/60s, 1/30s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Dublin, River, Nature, Water, Stream, Bruck

Where All The Irish Celebrities Go (plus get this image at 4319x2866pixels!)

Stephen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:50:25 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@18mm
Shutter Speed: 1/200s, 1/400s, 1/800s, 1/1600s, 1/3200s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Dublin, Rte

The Skeletal Statue

Stephen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:00:02 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@18mm
Shutter Speed: 1/50s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Dublin, Statue, Stephen’s Green

The Unusual Hanging Tree

Stephen — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:45:10 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@36mm
Shutter Speed: 1/25s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Dublin, Tree, Stephen’s Green

Pigeon Feeding Frenzy Part 2

Stephen — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:30:55 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/4.2
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@36mm
Shutter Speed: 1/30s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Dublin, Pigeons, Flying Rats, Stephen’s Green

Dublin’s Liffey Lit Up At Night

Stephen — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:30:56 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/9
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@18mmmm
Shutter Speed: 30s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Dublin, River, Liffey, Water, Lights, Long Exposure

A Last Minute Post To Keep Up The Tradition Of Posting One Picture Everyday

Stephen — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:53:14 +0000

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)

Aperture: f/9
ISO: 200
Lens: 18-200@18mmmm
Shutter Speed: 1/400s, 1/200s, 1/100s, 1/50s, 1/25s

Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Dublin, Stephen’s Green, Nature, Green, Lake, Water