Published:
June 3rd, 2010
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Malta
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I was looking through some of my old photos and came across this one from Malta which I rather like so I’d like to share it with you now 
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In other news, I’ve begun looking at what the hell the point is of the Tone Compressor in Photomatix; expect a post on that in the near future. I’m off to Kinsale over the weekend for a wedding so I’m anticipating some cool photos from 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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Published:
January 9th, 2010
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Categories:
Malta
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Here’s another of my many pictures from my time in Malta, specifically at the port in Gozo. Although I took five exposures of this I only realised when looking at them that the boat was bobbing up and down with the tide so they couldn’t really be aligned 
It still turned out alright from one exposure – the great thing about using one exposure in making HDRs is that you can take shots of moving objects like people, and boats!
I should have Part 3 of my HDR Tutorial up tomorrow, I spent all day in a snowball fight (I lost) so I’ll have to put in a super writing bout tomorrow
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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So it’s now 2010, we’re in the future, and I still don’t see any flying cars! Well maybe 2011 then. In the meantime here’s another photo from Gozo. I always find churches especially creepy, and this one was no exception – inside was totally lifeless and every footstep echoed all over the place; it was in the absolute middle of nowhere so I wasn’t really surprised though.
I’ve started Part 3 of my HDR Tutorial, but it won’t be online for a couple more days – college has begun again and some things just have to take priority
If you’re interested in knowing how I made this, along with my other photos, you can check out my
HDR Tutorial
Technorati Tags: gozo, malta, mediterranean, tone mapping, high dynamic range HDR, D300, nikon, tonemapped, projectvisual
I’m just back from a quick stroll around Glendalough in Co. Wicklow (Ireland), so expect the next few post to be suspiciously green, but first here’s another quick shot from Malta. It’s in the city (loose term) of Mdina, where the designers decided absolutely everything should be a shade of orange.
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I really have no idea what the purpose of this building is but it makes a good foreground subject. This is my last post for a few days as I’m heading to Pisa and Florence today until Sunday, with any luck I’ll have a new batch of photos to sift through.
Technorati Tags: gozo, house, shack, sky, clouds, summer, yellow, hdr, nikon, d300, projectvisual
College has been getting busier and busier now so I’ll probably only be posting now when I find the extra time – maybe every two or three days. I have already posting this photo on my Flickr page so if you’ve already seen it well here it is again!
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I had been waiting for the sun to rise in Malta on my last morning there and all of a sudden I glimpse a plane streaking throught the sky! This was really the only reason this picture even exists – in fairness I do like the boat bobbing about in the foreground but without the plane the scene wouldn’t have captured my eye.
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Following a treacherous trek up a winding road with no footpath, I finally made it to a high point near Valetta. I set my D300 on a ledge to steady it giving a blurring foreground effect.
I’m suddenly heading away again, this time to Pisa and then Florence in about 2 weeks. So far it’s been a good year for travelling – January was Paris, March was Malta, April = Barcelona, and now Pisa / Florence in May – I had aimed to go somewhere for every month of the year but February slipped by; that’s a short month anyway!
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I had to walk by this ship and resist the urge to hold up my group to assemble my tripod and camera so I had to run back the next morning and grab it then! – It was pretty fortunate though since there were no clouds the day before
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I knew as I walked alongside these palm trees, with the sun on my back, that this shot was about to materialise – one of the few time I actually predicted a scene before it happened! I don’t recall whether I had a tripod for this shot or not – I definitely was lying on the ground or in some otherwise awkard position. I can still imagine the breeze blowing through the palm trees!
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Azure Window is one of those strange rock formations that you wish was hear your home, but in actual fact is no big deal once you see it. Standing on top of it and looking out towards Sicily, you wouldn’t even know this huge gaping hole even existed!
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This is one of the most northern arts of Gozo, 60 miles north lies Sicily. The photograph really doesn’t capture the magnificence of the place unfortunately; I distinctly remember my WOW-meter going off the scale when I was actually there. Just to the left of this scene are the salt pans where seawater is evaporated leaving huge deposits of salts to be later collected. I was more than impressed by the ingenuity of it all!
In other news that probably I only care about, I had planned to go to Kerry this Easter weekend to visit some friends there, only to find that a train ticket there would set me back €78! From Dublin to Kerry is under 300km as the crow flies – it’s actually cheaper to fly there!! I’m sure there would have been plenty of time to get the D300 out for some landscape photos but €78 just proved to much for my wallet
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Here’s a rather nice scenic view of Rabat, a town in Gozo that I did not manage to visit. We were on a rather tight schedule with out bus driver – “OK so you have one hour here. Get out, look around but be back in one hour. Then we’ll go to the cliffs, you’ll have 30 minutes there, no more, then we’ll go somewhere else and I’ll rush you about some more!”
Taking a bus around Gozo though was well worth the expense – we had planned to hire out a couple of bicycles and go where we pleased, but from the bus window we soon found out after zooming around un-signed roads and windy cobbled streets that we would have been utterly lost on a pair of bikes!
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When I heard that I be going to see some 7000 year old temple ruins I, for some reason, envisioned grand walls, golden gates and all sorts of wonderful architecture. The 7000 year timescale didn’t seem to register in my head that maybe mankind hadn’t reached that level of sophistication just yet. The pile of stones I found there didn’t exactly impress me from an archaeological perspective, but the stone textures do allow from some interesting reflections.
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Upon finishing up our day long bus tour around the dusty roads of Gozo we headed back to the docks to find that our ferry had already left! What followed was over an hour of staring blankedly into the sea, watching a fisherman with the longest rod I’d ever seen until the next ferry finally arrived.
It was a pretty nice view though, the sea sounds being all swishy and calming.
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REALLY?? Don’t you imagine Malta as being yellow? (em, isn’t that racist?). This was undoubtedly the greenest part of Malta, I believe it was near Mdina if my memory serves me.
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I typically hate getting up early in the morning, except when I’m away on holidays in which case I can’t really sleep because I feel like I’m missing out on something. On my last night in Malta I knew I had to see the sunrise next day for it’s own sake – I miscalculated the time though and ended up wandering about Valetta Bay for nearly an hour before the big event!
This shot isn’t actually a sunrise (really?) but the angle of the sun really lit up this bridge and so it was worth tiptoeing across the seaweed cobbles to get into a good shooting position.
Technorati Tags: projectvisual, Nikon, D300, Malta, Sunrise, Bridge, Water, Small
It’s been a couple of days since my last post – that pint I mentioned in my last post got completely out of control and turned into a spontaneous two day trip to Barcelona. I did have just enough time to grab my camera along with my passport but unfortunately the the weather in Barcelona was utterly shit for the two days so there won’t really be many pictures coming from there
So it’s back to busines now anyway, here’s yet another pic from Malta – it was taken at around 06:30, just after sunrise.
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This was without doubt the most impressive ship docked in Valetta Bay in Malta (apart from the Indian Empress: an utterly gigantic luxury ship), but it never seemed to leave the bay! Seems like a waste…
Im at a loss as to why there’s suddenly noise in this picture – there was none in the larger version! I’m off for a pint now so it’ll have to do as it is
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Apologies for the short post yesterday – I was in a no fun mood and may have annoyed one person in particular, so particularly sorry to her
As it turns out the buses in Malta (some are dated back to the 60′s!) are by tradition owned by the drivers and so explains the high degree of customisation I saw while over there: pictures and statues of Mary adorned most of the buses I travelled on. Also the drivers are nuts – passengers haggle bus fares while standing at the open doors, all the while the driver has already taken off and is bombing down some dusty road at 50kph, amazing that no one gets killed!
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