Antrim Coast

City-Exile

I've been getting a bit of stick for being one dimensional & taking pictures of nothing other than football.
Find that a bit harsh, but on my way back from The Brandywell in Derry, I took the scenic route through Antrim.

Here are some of the pictures.

rymus

who's saying youre one dimensional? I'll club their bones!

City-Exile

rymus wrote:

who's saying youre one dimensional? I'll club their bones!

No one from here. It's the people on here who give me inspiration.

rymus

phew.. thought we were disbanding and turning on eachother for a minute there. Love the last one of Dunluce with the beach in the background. I'm of the opinion that the first causeway photo would be nicer with the sky cropped out though.

Funny you should post these, I'm heading to Sligo for a long weekend at some stage soon and was half thinking on heading up to the giants causeway in yet another attempt to get an original looking photo.

5uspect

hmm, I don't know. they're a bit dark and dull.
I like 3 the most, the others are too tightly cropped for my taste.

City-Exile

They're not cropped. I got close-up to the rocks.
Didn't want the generic Causeway shot.

As for being dark, they're not dark on my laptop, which is normally darker & displays less colours than monitors.

Rymus, I left the sky in just to give the impression that the stacks were leading up towards it.

5uspect

Must be my monitor so, I'll have to check its callibration.

City-Exile

By the way, the weaher was shocking up there!
Didn't see the sun until we got south of Belfast.

magicbastarder

they're fairly dark and flat on my monitor too.

Paulw

Lovely photos. I don't think I ever went through nor posted the photos I took from the Giant's Causeway. You captured the rock formations well.

Calina

3 does it for me too.

Did you use a flash on the causeway ones? It might have been an interesting experiment...I'd have been tempted to give it a shot.

dear God Rymus, Sligo to Giant's Causeway...how long a drive would that be?

rymus

not that long when I'm not paying for the Diesel

We'll make it as far as Enniskillen and decide from there

Actually... having checked it out on AA Ireland, I doubt we'll even make it as far as Enniskillen

City-Exile

No Calina, I didn't use a flash.
Used a 17-35 f/2.8 and daylight.

Calina

hmm...17-35 2.8...mentally adds it to list of lenses I want to "borrow" and "try sometime".

It's interesting, I occasionally play with bouncing flash off stuff, just for effect. Anyway, I'm tempted to wander up there some weekend when I am not being torn apart by a load of conflicting appointments. It looks nice.

Valentia

Lovely shots Peadar. I'd definitely take the sky out of the last one. It's distracting. It works on the other though. It does give that sense of looking up, but ostly because you told us

Maybe Andy can facilitate a trip uround the photogenic spots up around there. I'd love a trip up meself.

Oriel

I haven't shot Dunluce myself yet, but it takes a good evening to be able to get it right.
City-Exile, gimmie a shout the next time you're up north! I'm a Nikonian, so no chance of me kicking your 300mm 2.8.

440Hz

Nice shots Peader! I see the new toy is getting a good outing! 3 and 4 are lovely. May have gone even a little further off center with the third one, nice job though.

City-Exile

Thanks, 440Hz.
Great to have you back again.

City-Exile

Here's another one, with no sky.

bovril

I like that last one, the lines in it are great. The colour of the rock (as in the others) is beautiful.

5uspect

I much perfer that one to the other rock ones, really nice textures and a great angle.