Ugh. I’m tired, hungry and hungover. The New Years celebrations were great but I wish I could skip the next day. Anyway, I caught this photo by chance - I was walking through Stephen’s Green in Dublin and an old lady suddenly starts throwing breadcrumbs all over the place. Within 10 seconds the ground was pigeon shaped. I stood watching, wondering if I should take out my camera and grab a shot before they had their fill. I did of course.
First post of 2009
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Merry Christmas everyone! - I hope everyone is enjoying their festive holidays as I am (if you are celebrating somethig else, well then Merry ‘insert holiday here’!). Todays picture was going to be a christmas tree (but I think Stuck In Customs has that one covered) so instead I’ve opted for some simple bell action - it’s not often I zoom into anything and focus on the fine details. See the guy in the middle of the centre bell leaning against the pillar? That’s me! but I’ll say no more - I’ve got more turkey and ham to devour.
I travelled to Dublin to do some late Christmas shopping but got side tracked when I walked under this building. I think it was the unusual shape from my perspective that drew me in and fortunately I had my D300 with me. I took five exposures, shutter speeds below, and then ran them through Photomatix as usual. I dropped the light smoothing slider to medium in order to bump up the colors a little. Now all I have to do is get back to my Christmas shopping!
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I was walking through Stephen’s Green in Dublin one Saturday morning, probably on my way to do some meaningless errand, when I saw an unusually large gaggle (is that the right word) of ducks and em seagulls lets say. I had no tripod with me unfortuantly and the S9600 has no Image Stabilisation or Vibration Reduction with it (please correct me if I’m wrong on this, I would love to be wrong on this!), but it is possible to steady your camera quite effectively by wrapping its strap tightly around your forearm and pulling it taut. There were plenty of people about getting the most use out of their cameras and as you can tell frombelow there was plenty to photograph. I only took the one image - I get distracted from what I’m doing very easily. C’mom focus!
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