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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
This statue resides outside Musée d’Orsay in Paris, I’ll just say that this was tone mapped rather than being HDR since I’ve ben reading a lot of booers boohoo-ing in general about all the fake HDR stuff flying over the interweb!
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Everybody says that you cannot see the entire Lourve in one day. I set out to prove them all wrong and failed miserably. This ceiling was but one of I can only guess about 7600 rooms, corridors and underground passageways that make up this monster of a museum. This was actually one of the more appealing sections of the museum – the lighting was kind of low here so the picture is oh so slightly blurry, but only just 
Oh, and the Mona Lisa was rubbish.
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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!
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After walking what seems like for an eternity around the Musée d’Orsay myself and a friend joined two other friends in a cafe across the road. We sat contently until an obnoxious waiter, clearly rueing the decision to become a waiter, approached us, said Bonjour (we didn’t really see him come over since we were tired) and then went ballistic because we didn’t say Bonjour back to him. Not the best way to teach us manners I thought…
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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
That post from the top of the Arc De Triomphe will have to wait – there’s a story attached and I’ve no time to write it
I was surprised to find that you can take photos of nearly anything in Paris – whether you are in a museum like the Lourve or Notre Dame cathedral, nothing is off limits. This is but one of the many statues in Notre Dame, the light everywhere was very low lit, combined with the cold it created a rather gloomy atmosphere.
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Not a HDR photo today but different none the less. Without doubt one of the highlights of Paris was walking along the Champs-Élysées towards the Arc de Triomphe. This is one of the few shots I shoot with my D300 attached to my rather flimsy but protable tripod. The entire street is flooded with lights after dusk all year around and the view from the top of the Triomphe is something that must be seen to be believed – I’ll post that one tomorrow along with a frustrating tale of an authority stamping French douche…
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Notre Dame in Paris is home to bums, entertainers, tourists, and the Statue Of Charlemagne, I believe also known as Charles the Great, or King of the Franks. While at Notre Dame be prepared to be approached by randomers asking stupid questions – it doesn’t work to speak back in english as there’s a good chance they can speak it. A good tip though, if you can, speak Irish! – they won’t have a clue what you are saying, I didn’t even know fully what I was saying!
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Everything in Paris is so much more grander than here in Ireland, buildings are more massive, people are more rude etc… I’m pretty sure this was in Sacré-Coeur, on top of Montmartre, the highest point in Paris I’ll have you know. While recognizing some of the flags I’m sorry to say I can’t put a country to a single one My geography knowledge sucks.
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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
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And back to Paris! I spent most of the first day photographing anything and everything near and around the Eiffel Tower. In some of the shots the Eiffel Tower is in the way but not the one below – you can pass this pond and flower arangement if you approach the Eiffel Tower from the side that the Wall of Peace is located, on the Champs de Mars. Like almost all my photos from Paris, this one was handheld – dragging a tripod around with friends is a definite no no
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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.
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Does this look comfortable? Don’t think so! Originally I was planning to shoot this from a high angle above it, but then decided to shoot from below to give it more presence in the foreground. What do you think?
It’s day five in Paris, only another one day left now
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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