Christmas Photowalk in Dublin Sat 12th

DenaW

Hi,

Bord Gáis has organised a photowalk for this Saturday (12th December) in Dublin City Centre, in conjunction with their Christmas '09 group on Pix.ie.

It's a bit short notice, but the idea is for a few of us to get together and enjoy a festive photowalk around the city, capture a bit of Christmas spirit and upload our pictures to the Bord Gáis Christmas 09 group on pix.ie (http://pix.ie/group/christmas09). Hopefully we'll also help them to reach their upload target - if they get enough shots uploaded there will be €10k donated to the Dublin Lord Mayor's Christmas fund.

We are going to meet at the Spire on O'Connell Street at 4pm on Saturday 12th, and will wrap up the walk at 6-6.30pm (exact location TBC), so that we can all meet-up, catch-up & chat, as well as enjoy a drink courtesy of the guys at Bord Gáis too. (That's the kind of Christmas spirit we all like! haha)

I hope you can make it. If you are interested, please confirm below and I'll add names to the list. I'll update about the final destination for those drinks as soon as I can too!

Darragh

Just to add - this is all signed off and officially passed by ourselves and we support it and all that jazz

cloudsteph

Weather is forecast to be dry and crisp - hurrah! Might hop on at some stage in the afternoon with my lowly compact

mohans

sounds like fun, i'll be up for it

Calina

I'll be on a plane back from Cork at that stage. Pity.

Hope you all have fun guys.

elven

Hmm I wonder if my holga lens wants to try night shooting...

Jim

Haven't attended a photowalk yet so would have liked to go to this one, unfortunately I'll be up in Belfast on Saturday

DSLinAbsentia

Looking forward to it, batteries charged, camera at the ready. Go, go, go!

one2one

Not able to make in as work commitments take over - but as a tip for you all, if you head to the loopline rail bridge over the Liffey around 1630/1700 you will get a great shot of a RPSI 1940's steam train with an old CIE green wooden set of carraiges on a Christmas Special. They have 3 journeys that day from Pearse to Maynooth, at 1000/1300 and 1630/1700. Hope its of interest to someone here.

DenaW

one2one wrote: »

Not able to make in as work commitments take over - but as a tip for you all, if you head to the loopline rail bridge over the Liffey around 1630/1700 you will get a great shot of a RPSI 1940's steam train with an old CIE green wooden set of carraiges on a Christmas Special. They have 3 journeys that day from Pearse to Maynooth, at 1000/1300 and 1630/1700. Hope its of interest to someone here.

What a great tip, thanks!

Sorry you won't be able to make it though.

SinisterDexter

My weekend plans have just changed.... will be there.


And a big thank you to one2one for that tip. Nice to know where you will see a rare photo opportunity.

eightcell

I should be able to make it!

miamee

SOunds like fun, I might try and make it in for this Dying to take a few pics of some of the crazy house decorations and lights I've been seeing too!

projectmayhem

Jaysis, late promoting this one!

I don't think I'll be able to attend but if I can pop down I will for sure. Photo's and a pint? Hells yeah

DenaW

projectmayhem wrote: »

Jaysis, late promoting this one!

I don't think I'll be able to attend but if I can pop down I will for sure. Photo's and a pint? Hells yeah

yeah, it's a bit short notice, for one reason or another. better late than never though eh? and a free drink at the end is always good news imho ;-)

thumbninja

looking forward to it. so much so I logged in for the first time in nearly a year!

prefer stalkerism

aidan18

I 'll be there

DutchGuy

I'll probably be there too, might bring a friend as well.

Pyjamarama

Will definately try to be there, sounds good!

swingking

sounds good ; I'm going to try to be there

aidan18

should we bring tripods or is it a pint and shoot walkThanks Aidan

DenaW

Hi Aidan,

I'm going to keep it pretty open tbh. I'm in the middle of planning a loose route to follow, but am hoping to keep it flexible for people. I'll probably highlight key points to meet at along the way & then let people do their thing in between.

Unless people have a preference for something specific? I'm open to suggestions.

DenaW

Hi,

I'm pulling together a loose route for tomorrow, which is roughly as follows at the moment:

Spire -> Henry Street -> Jervis Street (where the fair's on) -> down to the Liffey -> Temple Bar -> Possible Cows Lane (for the Christmas market) ->Wicklow/Exchequer Street -> Grafton Street -> End point for drinks (i'm waiting on confirmation of the venue at the moment)

Is there anything people would prefer we include, take out etc? I can't promise to do everything, but I'm open to suggestion as I want to make sure it's fun for everyone. Thanks

aidan18

Meet at spire and go with the flow no panic

GristlyEnd

I will be coming along

DenaW

@Aidan18 - that's what I'm hoping for anyway

foamcutter

Dena, good Luck with the photowalk, cutting foam unfortunately Have fun.

swingking

turns out I wont be able to make it tonight. Forgot about something going on.

Have fun guys; really wish I was going

GristlyEnd

Michel Jhon wrote: »

Bride and groom on a sleigh ride with real horses. Bride and groom decorating the tree. Bride and groom baking christmas cookies. Bride and groom tied together with a great big Christmas bow or breaking out of a big wrapped box under the tree together. Dressing up like Mr and Mrs Clause and climbing in a chimney together (may be dangerous however).

What are you on about?

Calina

Sorry about that. I meant to delete that post when I banned the poster.

oscarBravo

Nuked.

DenaW

Thanks to everyone who came along. It was lovely to meet you all.

I think most of you have uploaded your pics by now & there are some brilliant ones. If not, please can you upload them to Bord Gáis group on pix.ie here - http://pix.ie/group/christmas09

Thanks a mil.

one2one

Did anyone get a photo of the old engine?

SinisterDexter

I did, thank you very much mister one2one. I was sneaky and went to Maynooth.



Not sure how this pic linking to my pix.ie works but there is the album link below.

http://pix.ie/sinisterdexter/album/363317

one2one

Very good set there. Well done.

For anyone else thats interested in getting a shot, the times for Saturday 19th are:

Pearse ( depart ) : 1030 1355 1658
Maynooth (arrive): 1110 1434 1743
Maynooth (depart): 1205 1515 1815

SinisterDexter

The train does be at Maynooth for about a half-hour, while the engine gets refilled with water, goes up the track and reverses back down the second track. The engine ends up going back to Dublin in reverse.

The station attendant had no problem letting me and my gf onto the platform without a ticket, once he knew we were there for the steam train.

one2one

Please note due to a technical problem with RPSI Steam loco no 4, a Diesal railcar from IE maybe be used instead.

Yes, more information on www.rpsi-online.org. I'm a volunteer for them, great day out I must say. If anyone is planning on heading out on Saturday, PM me and I'll give you details and I *might* show you the interior of the carraiges.

*might*: Depending on how busy the crew are, and if I'm free.

monkeyman

Would anyone have any tips on shooting the steam trains in Pearse, Tara or Connolly? I'm new enough to this game. Any particular f-stop recommended to start with and then I can just try different settings?

ThOnda

Steam trains have fantastic feature - the steam. It is fluid medium, that flows, bends and twirls. If you have tripod, try to increase the aperture number to maximum to get some motion blur (of the steam) with static sharp engine.
Otherwise it is like photography of everything else. Keep at least something in focus, check your metering against your palm (if the engine is too dark) to prevent incorrect exposure, try different angles of viewing (go lower, use bridges), shoot as much as you can, because it is for free (on digital) and you can always delete photos afterwards.