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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

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Trek Up Lug

Stephen — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:14:12 +0000

It’s been a while since my last post and plenty has been going on in the last three months. I’ll be moving to Japan first of all! I applied to the JET Programme last December and have been accepted so I’ll be teaching english for the next year or so, starting on the 23rd July. I still don’t know where in Japan I’ll be placed but I’ll post more details as I get them!

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

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Waiting For Something To Happen

Stephen — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:18:46 +0000

This is from somewhere in the south of Ireland, Cork possibly. I always like how the sun glares in pictures so when I saw the sun beaming over Dunnes the camera and tripod was out like a rocket. It came out OK didn’t it? Or did it? Ooooh the mystery….

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

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The Mast

Stephen — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:36:07 +0000

This Mast, which you’ll find in Kinsale along the shore isn’t part of any ship or boat, but rather it’s a sort of look out point for tourists to have a gawk at the boats that are docked. Try as I may though I couldn’t fit it’s entirety in the shot without losing some of the stone architecture in the foreground.

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

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Abandoned Ruins.com

Stephen — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:07:45 +0000

A looooooong time ago I went to a friends wedding (R.I.P.) in Kinsale, Co. Cork. Since I was there all by my lonesome I took a wander around the village the evening before and stumbled across this eerie graveyard / cemetery, complete with wall ruins and unkept greenery. I don’t usually like people in most photos I take so I was pretty lucky that this place seemed unknown to the world

Now that I’ve finished college I am settling nicely into my new routine of getting up whenever the hell I want and deciding how I’m gonna spend my day; I just need to figure out the limits of ones abilities to do things with next to no money

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

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Cruising In Kinsale

Stephen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:35:45 +0000

Mmmm it’s been a lean period here of late; since my late post I had my thesis viva (that’s when you sit down with you supervisor and two other experts in your field and rip your thesis to shreds looking for mistakes and blunders that you have to justify). After three hours of scrutiny I passed and I’m now using my brand new title of Doctor at every opportunity! I’m still as poor as ever but at least I’m a poor Doctor now!

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

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Glaring Sun in Southern Ireland

Stephen — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:27:39 +0000

Phew! I’m just back from a game of squash and I am exhausted! You may not know this, but squash is apparently one of the most intensive sports to play. It really is! An hour of running back and forth, side to side, and around in circles trying to catch a ball whizzing over your head will get anyone sweating in no time! Highly recommended if you have a fat ass and want rid of it .

Here’s a pic from Co. Kerry (I need to travel more), taken around New Years 2010. I always like these shots into the sun, but I foolishly had my ISO settings high by mistake during my whole time there so there was a whole load of noise in all my Kerry shots .

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

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The Deceptively Sunny Dingle Harbor.

Stephen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:58:17 +0000

Here is one of the very few scenes I could capture when I spent some time in Dingle, in County Kerry, over the new year. I never did get the opportunity to get out onto the water – even though the photo looks picturesque, Dingle is home to possibly the chilliest winds anywhere in the world and the last place I felt like being was away from the shelter of the shore

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

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How not to use a fishing net (And it’s my 200th post!)

Stephen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:03:45 +0000

I spent new years in Dingle, a small, small (small) village in Co. Kerry in South Ireland. The sum total of my activities were, in no particular order: eat, drink, sleep and shoot.

Seriously, shouldn’t that net be in the water or something? I’m no fisherman but my non-fishermen instincts were kicking in here. Unfortunately there were no actual fishermen around (apart from two I saw in a pub drinking Guinness at noon) outside who could help me on this niggling matter

There was a whole load of noise in this image – you can see some remnants of it just below the clouds. It was far worse but I cleaned most of it up using some nice software from Imagenomic. It’s called Noiseware Professional Plug in (this link is for the MAC version, the WINDOWS version is here.) It’s a Photoshop plugin that works wonders to drastically reduce the amount of noise in your images – the first time I used it my jaw nearly fell off! I now use it all the time (it’ll feature in my HDR Tutorial). I’ll do a proper review of it when I get the time.

I’ve said it already but I’ll say it again just to remind myself, I’ve started Part 3 of my HDR Tutorial, it’s getting there but still won’t be online for a couple more days – let’s put a definite latest date on it: 10^th January

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

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Grandiose Glendalough

Stephen — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:49:07 +0000

This was sort of the halfway point of my hike around Glendalough – we started on the left hand side down at the lake and worked our way around the hilltops down to the right hand side of the photo. This was one of those times I really wished I had a wide angle lens

You can see a largeer version of this image at my FlICKR page if you’re interested – see my FLCIKR link on the right sidebar? ——->>> Go on – give it a click

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Glendalough Lake

Stephen — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:37:06 +0000

This is Glendalough, literally ‘Glen of the two lakes’. A group of us headed on a walk around it on Wednesday – a 9km hike involving wet socks and annoying midgets trying to eat you alive. Apart from that it was great though! I was in a rare mood and decided to take my tripod with me so I was able to make this shot is from 5 exposures +2 to -2.

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If You Visit Ireland Only Once, Make Sure You Drop By Kerry

Stephen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:02:51 +0000

It’s been 46 days since my last post. I used to post every single day, until I went out one night to grab a quick Guinness with two friends in Dublin and ended flying to Barcelona for two days – after that my daily routine was properly screwed up!

With any luck this post will be the first of a more regular series of updates, one every two or three days; again it’s from Kerry, the nicest place in Ireland I’m told, and I agree!

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Inch Beach In Kerry: Niiice

Stephen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:10:24 +0000

I spent the weekend of last week in Kerry visiting four friends and checking out some seriously awesome beaches along the way. This one here though was the best of the bunch – probably because the weather sucked at all the others. I was getting some real impressive driving lessons from my friend Catherine as well, well I was just sitting in the back seat while she bombed along the coast at 160mph – it was still great though!

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