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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 
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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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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!
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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.
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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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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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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!
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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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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?
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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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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 find this image very soothing – I was walking over the rock bridge (part of it is the foreground) in Stephen’s Green, and the frame that the bridge and trees make around the lake made this shot irresistible to take. I’ve used a low aperture number, F/3.5 I think, to reduce the depth of focus as much as possible and give it a sort of fairy tale look. I hope you like it.
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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Weather in Ireland is odd. Similar conditions never occur together. It can’t be just cold and raining, or hot and sunny, conditions you would think go together. Look below. It’s sunny and the sky is clear and yet it was freezing and windy at the same time. I really need to get away from this type of weather, I need to travel more – give my Nikon some new scenery, all I seem to be photographing lately is Irish trees and houses! I’ll be heading to Paris in the new year for a week with friends though – I’m sure my D300 will enjoy that!
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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.
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Shutter Speed: 1/50s
- ISO: 200
- Lens: 18-200@200mm
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!
- Aperture: f/6.3
- Shutter Speed: 1/2500s, 1/1250s, 1/640s, 1/320s, 1/160s
- ISO: 200
- Lens: 18-200@22mm
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