Holiday snaps

Valentia

Stuck a few holiday snaps up here.

Taken around Valentia Island and the Skelligs in the last few weeks.

Comments appreciated.

Thanks.

rymus

some excellent shots.. how many thousand pictures did you have to take to get that many brilliant shots?

Not that it makes a difference, but what kind of kit were you using?

Shrimp

Some nice photos. Very postcard tho. Keep snapping.

alleepally

Nice but who's the gombeen trying to feed chocolate to one of the gulls?

alleepally

Love number 34 especially! Did you use a burn on type right in Photoshop to darken the blue?

JackKelly

Lol,i was just about to mention 34. It's amazing. Much more than a postcard that one.

Valentia

Thanks for the comments.

Rymus: on de ball I wont tell you how many but lots!

I'm using a Canon 10d and the lens was mostly a Sigma 70-200 2.8 plus a Sigma 12-24 and a basic 28-105. The pictire with the Skellig rockface & the moon was taken with the Canon 50mm 1.8 which we have discussed here before. I should use it more often.

Postcardy yes, but the scenery lends itself to that kind of shot I think. Though dead mackerel in a bucket of blood probably wont sell very well to the yanks.

The gulls are very tame. I have a shot of the gull taking the chocolate but didn't put it up.

No. 34 was done with a free action I found somewhere which gives a Velvia look to a pic. I changed the action slightly with that photo to include a "colour burn" and it worked well. Messin around is great crack. Well spotted alleepally.

The star one doesn't come accross too well on the net. The jpg compression loses a lot of the stars. If anyone is interested, the stars are rotating around the North Star and the exposure was about 20 minutes. I was enjoying a nice Jameson at the time. The only way to take pics if you ask me


BTW if anyone wants the Velvia action PM me and I will send it. It's great with outdoor shots.

rymus

lovely lens choice... I was sold on the 12-24 for a while but now that theres a 10-20 out I may have to put my money elsewhere. Nothing wrong with postcardy pictures; they make excellent postcards which equals picture sales to you.

On looking at the shots again, I think I may have to treat myself to the 50mm 1.8 when I get back from London

Benster

Some nice ones in there indeed. The one with the cloud covering the island - what time of day was that?

The star trails one - I see what you were trying for there, pity about the compression as you were saying. In my own experience, trails require serious patience and discipline to capture well. You literally have to leave the camera out for hours!

Well done.

B.

Enygma

I spend a lot of time down there, you've got some really really nice shots of the place there. I particularly like the ones of the birds, especially the puffin taking off.

Well done!