Giants Causeway

Borderfox

I was up in Ballymoney yesterday and being so near I couldnt resist a visit up to the Giants Causeway. First thing was the car park £5 per car to park, I didnt have any sterling on me so it cost €10!! they had a bus that went down to the Causeway and it cost £2 return per person but suprise suprise they only take euro notes so they wanted another €10. Anyway all that aside it was a poxy day in weather terms but still quite good for shots and a few are below so c&c is welcome

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Dragan

Number 3 and 4 are my favourites!

I really like number 4, it's pretty epic although i think the conditions of the day cost you some sharpness.

Lovely work.

Also, thanks for the warning on the costs!

jackdaw

Very nice shots ... I particularly like no. 1 ..

i like that wispy water look .. did you use an ND filter ?

Borderfox

I used a polariser and stopped down to f22 to get some smoothing of the water, in the end had to take the polariser off as it was covered in drops. I used a Canon 5d and a 17-40L on a tripod. My sensor is filthy too and loads of use of the healing brush to get rid of the dots!! The upload to photobucket will always cost some sharpness to shots.

Shiny

Very impressed with the last photo. I think the bad weather really added
to the photos and I feel the last one is a fresh view of the Causeway that
I have not seen in many photos.

Borderfox

I always see an advantage in bad weather

1: not a lot of people around (always good)
2: skies can be really moody (I should dodge and burn more on these shots)
3: not that many shots (when you compare sunny to rain) of landscapes in bad weather

labbad

No. 4 is a powerful photo I really like it

Mr. Grieves

I like number 2, it's a really interesting angle and the swirly patterns in the water are great.

I don't know if it's my moniter, but the highlights seem really blown out. Could you reprocess them with a slightly lower contrast black and white conversion? I assume you shot RAW?

Borderfox

I shot Raw and large jpg so these are just from the jpeg's, I tend to shoot like this now for somethings I do as from the jpeg I can see if the shot has any merit and also I have the raw for larger prints or adjustments

PixelTrawler

Like them all. Nice job. Great when you get good shots on rough days.

Borderfox

The only thing I had to watch was the rain but other than that it was fine.

AnimalRights

#3 and #4
Sometimes I think people over do the soft ater/ wishy washy look, why I went for 3 and 4.
#4 as someone said is epic and #3 is just diff...
Again as someone said the bad weather really makes the pics...
#4 especially I can almost feel like I'm there, lol at the rip off prices too.
Hate this rip off culture we have.

wasper

Love the photos.
I actually arrived with a group of photgraphers at around 5.30am & we just walked down that road to the causeway.
We didn't pay any money as there was no manning the place at time of the morning. Pity about the day it didn't stop raining & I didn't get what I wnated.

Great shots Borderfox,I especially like 2&4.The composition of #2 is brilliant and the contrast between the water and the rocks is spot on.For #3 the shot is technically very good but I dislike the composition.I think a lower angle would help differentiate the rocks.At the moment they all seem to run into each other. #4 is a brilliant shot but I think it could be improved.If it was tilted slightly anti clockwise I think it would look better.The horizon would be a bit off but it would definitely help the balance of the photo.Also the background rocks look to be a bit faded.Burning the background rocks in photoshop would improve the shot dramatically imo.

Borderfox

Thanks for all the comments, I have just done adjustments to the jpg's at the moment and I will get stuck into the raw files next week as I have a bit of time early next week. Conditions were very bad and it was quite hard to get some of the compositions that I wanted and the rain forced me into cropping some of the shots due to bad water drops on the filter, but thats photography. Wasper I will have to go down that early right around the shortest day of the year as the bay just before the causeway looks epic in bad weather and if I hadnt been soaked to my kecks I would have stopped to get some more shots

AnCatDubh

I think that you've posted a very powerful set - not the normal or expected causeway shots by any means and not technically perfect but quite compelling all the same. Nice.

Borderfox

Thanks, I wouldnt consider myself a landscape photographer by any means but I would like to think I can make the best out of a situation given to me. I got some frames in HN and got two of them printed 16x12 and both are sold