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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)
- Aperture: f/3.5
- ISO: 200
- Lens: 18-200 @18mm
- Shutter Speed: 1/3200s
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, Tone Mapped, Photography, Sky, Clouds, Plane Trail, Blue, Tree
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 
Technorati Tags: Olympus, 850sw, snow, ice, white, trees, reflections, winter, ireland
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…
Technorati Tags: Olympus, 850 SW, Photography, projectvisual, snow, winter, wall, footprints, frosty, ireland, white
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.
Technorati Tags: Olympus, 850 SW, Photography, projectvisual, snow, winter, bikes, frosty, ireland, white
In what seems like a once in a decade event, we had some proper snow in Dublin yesterday! About 100 students in my campus formed gangs and proceeded to annihilate, with snowballs, anyone they saw using an umbrella to shield themselves from the falling snowflakes! Sounds fair right?
I didn’t have my D300 with me so I took this with my Olympus 850 sw as a jpg and then ran it through HDR Max just to see what kind of result I could get. There wasn’t much dynamic range in the photo to begin with anyway (it’s all white!). So if you like snowy pictures, that’s all you’ll be finding here for the next week or so – I’ve got to make the best of this rather rare Irish event
Technorati Tags: Olympus, 850 SW, Photography, projectvisual, snow, winter, bikes, frosty, ireland, white
I always think that for an outside shot the sky is at least on equal par for being the most important component of what is in your lens’s sight. A bland sky makes for a bland picture.
Also, it’s been snowing like a motherflipper in Ireland all day today! I took some quick snaps with my Olympus 850 SW (I don’t lug my D300 everywhere I go unfortunately!) so I’ll be posting some hopefully pretty snowy pics over the next few days!
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, Photography, projectvisual, sky, clouds, attitude, character, trees, nature, wood, pathway
Although winter in Ireland is usually cold, wet and windy, on this particular day it was unusally calm and sunny.
In other news I have submitted 7 pictures to the Ariea macbook competition – fingers crossed!
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, Photography, projectvisual, Dublin, fountain, lake, UCD, water
Another shot from Stephen’s Green – one from the top of the Arc de Triomphe is coming tomorrow I prommise…
On the timelapse photograpgy front I’ve now got about 1 minute 40 seconds done, and I’m wondering what type of muisc would go well with the video. I’m thinking I might make a few versions of the video, each with a different soundtrack to see which appeals to who.
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, Photography, projectvisual, fountain, water, sprinkle, stephens green, park, grass
This shot was taken the same day as A Sunset Peeking Through The World – it was taken on a bridge with plenty of traffic rumbling past so timing was crucial . Originally every shot I took was coming out really under-exposed, until I realised the camera was set to manual and shutter speed was at something like zero – so remember kids, check your settings
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, night, night time, dublin, water, river, docks, lights, reflections,
I’ve passed this stream so many times on my way into Dublin City Centre and each time thought I should stop and take a few snaps. I picked a good time when I finally got around to it and caught the sun trying to break through the trees as it began to set.
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, sunset, trees, water, river, boat, murky, dublin, photography
This stature stands within my college beside out resident lake. It’s a mystery to me – I don’t know who built it, when, why, for how much, I know nothing about it! What I do know is that it makes a great photo
It’s my last day in Paris , I’ll be back this evening to trawl though all my new pictures though!
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, UCD, lake, stature
Although I usually hate very cloudy days when taking photographs, this image turned out very well I think. It wasn’t really this dark at the time but by saturating the colours and altering the curve levels in GIMP I was able to give the picture a more Gothic look, is that the right word?
It’s day four in Paris, only another two days left now
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, Stephens Green, lake, birds, swans, dark, gothic, moody
This is some strange building in my college – I’m not sure of it’s purpose but it’s odd exterior serves for an interesting shot. The multiple birds in the center is a dead giveaway that I blended different exposures here! I should have removed them but I was scheduling these post quickly on Monday as I was heading off on holiday
It’s day three in Paris, only another three days left now
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, UCD, building, green, lake, fountain
I was trying to arrange the benches here so that the closest one is entirely in the foreground and the other three then extend backwards into the distance. I didn’t manage to get all of the near bench in the foreground but it’s still OK. I’m still in Paris – it’s amazing I expect (I wrote this on Monday), I’ll be returning to Ireland on Saturday evening.
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, Stephens Green, bench
Well I’m off to Paris today (in about three hours) for some sightseeing and cheap accomodation. I’m bringing my D300 with me so I expect to get lots of pictures while I’m over there. There’ll still be a daily picture all week so be sure to call back Here’s another picture from my campus grounds – it’s the only distance I have to walk to get into college but it actually feels very long because a straight line. Weird or?
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, UCD, University College Dublin, college, trees, walkway, path
I like trains much more than buses, you can relax more easily and spread out on a train, but on a bus you’re squeezed into tiny seats and probably end up stuck beside some overweight lardass who doesn’t understand the concept of sharing equally. That’s from personal experience.
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, train station, railway, tracks, carraige, quiet, solace, nature, trees
Remember this guy?, the one seagull standing all lonesome? I snapped a second shot of him just as he took off – he’s the real blurry seagull closest to the lens. This was also taken by hand, with a tripod hanging out from the bottom (a D300 plus tripod is heavy!) and birds were flying everywhere – some kids were throwing bread around, stupid kids.
Technorati Tags: Nikon, D300, HDR, seagull, birds, lake, nature, dublin, stephen’s green, blurry, fast shutter speed, dynamic
This is Thomas Michael Kettle – I don’t know who he is but I’m sure Wikipedia is clued in:
Extracted verbatim from Wikipedia:
Thomas Michael “Tom” Kettle (9 February 1880 – 9 September 1916) was an Irish journalist, barrister, writer, poet and economist. As nationalist, Home Rule politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, he represented East Tyrone as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1906-1910. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, then on the outbreak of World War I in 1914 enlisted for service in an Irish regiment where in 1916 he met his death on the Western Front.
He was one of the leading figures of the generation who at the turn of the twentieth century gave new intellectual life to Irish party politics, and to the constitutional movement towards All-Ireland Home Rule. The Great War brought both of these and his life to an end. A gifted speaker with an incisive mind and devastating wit, his death was regarded as a great loss to Ireland’s political and intellectual life.
See? This site isn’t just about pretty pictures – you learn on interesting topics from time to time also
I spent new years at a wedding in a hotel somewhere in Dublin (I got a group minibus and wasn’t asking directions!). I had brought my D300, just in case, and sure enough, once some drink took hold in the middle of the night I decided to wander around the hotel to see what I could find, even though it was pitch dark. Luck was with me though; the hotel was situated on the coast and across the water was a peninsula called Howth. It was alight with, well light, and balancing my Nikon on a rickety fence, took five exposures and came out with this very, very warm shot.
