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MysticalRain

Isaias Warm Self-denial wrote: »

The joys of being based in the Kingdom. I'm just back from there and all I saw were clouds :mad:

Alas, I spend most of my time in Dublin due to work. But it's definitely useful having the old family homestead down there to use as a base during holidays.

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MysticalRain wrote: »

Thanks Wallin. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of shooting the Skelligs. The weather in Kerry is always a bit of a crapshoot. But I shot two evenings in a row in Portmagee and got the shot I wanted on the second day. I have more pictures of the Skelligs I'll be posting here in the coming months as well

Norman McCloskey’s shot was definitely an inspiration. Hopefully I’ll get a shot of the moon over the Skelligs at some point in the future. I had the pleasure of meeting Norman at an art exhibition a while back and got to complement him in person about his Skellig shot.
http://www.normanmccloskey.com/2015/04/shoot-the-moon

The joys of being based in the Kingdom. I'm just back from there and all I saw were clouds :mad:

MysticalRain

Wailin wrote: »

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That's a cracking image Mystical Rain. Been on my list to get that shot the last year but no luck with weather anytime I was there. Was inspired by Norman McCloskeys (Kenmare photographer) image of the Skellig Moon.

You nailed it! Lovely sky tones and wave action. Well done!

Thanks Wallin. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of shooting the Skelligs. The weather in Kerry is always a bit of a crapshoot. But I shot two evenings in a row in Portmagee and got the shot I wanted on the second day. I have more pictures of the Skelligs I'll be posting here in the coming months as well

Norman McCloskey’s shot was definitely an inspiration. Hopefully I’ll get a shot of the moon over the Skelligs at some point in the future. I had the pleasure of meeting Norman at an art exhibition a while back and got to complement him in person about his Skellig shot.
http://www.normanmccloskey.com/2015/04/shoot-the-moon

Wailin

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=105710266&postcount=1564

That's a cracking image Mystical Rain. Been on my list to get that shot the last year but no luck with weather anytime I was there. Was inspired by Norman McCloskeys (Kenmare photographer) image of the Skellig Moon.

You nailed it! Lovely sky tones and wave action. Well done!

uck51js9zml2yt

Can we go back to saying where the photos are taken please?

Some great shots lately and I've no idea where they are. I know I could ask but then only I'll know

firemansam4

keps wrote: »

@firemansam4

Stunning pic

( added later - I see it's got 48k views and 900 'thanks' on Flickr and counting- not surprised -it's amazing

Thanks Keps, This picture got as high as any of mine ever did in explore on flickr, so I was delighted with that.
I love going back to this old ship to get pictures and I love getting out and getting pics of the aurora, so I was pleased to combine the 2 in this shot...

keps

@firemansam4

Stunning pic

( added later - I see it's got 48k views and 900 'thanks' on Flickr and counting- not surprised -it's amazing

keps

@ Adrian

Maybe
'Drinking in the morning Sun' ??:P

And
Looking like a heavy one :P

So maybe Elbow more appropriate than Otis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-xTEJn4ks

magicbastarder

she didn't find out for several months. she still went horseriding though.

Wailin

magicbastarder wrote: »

my wife's memories of that place are coloured somewhat by having fallen on a mossy rock there and dislocating her coccyx.

Ouch! It can be pretty lethal alright.

magicbastarder

my wife's memories of that place are coloured somewhat by having fallen on a mossy rock there and dislocating her coccyx.

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Loki98 wrote: »

pixbyjohn's directions should get you to it, but just in case you're coming from Blessington direction it's marked on Google maps

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/cloghleagh+bridge/@53.1696376,-6.527832,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48679e698e4be9b9:0x859a50d5af6401c9!8m2!3d53.1898017!4d-6.4317016

Thanks Loki

Loki98

pixbyjohn's directions should get you to it, but just in case you're coming from Blessington direction it's marked on Google maps

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/cloghleagh+bridge/@53.1696376,-6.527832,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48679e698e4be9b9:0x859a50d5af6401c9!8m2!3d53.1898017!4d-6.4317016

pixbyjohn

Isaias Warm Self-denial wrote: »

Loki - how near to kippure estate is cloughlea? Great photo but cant find it on the map.

Pass Kippure on your right and travel to Sallygap crossroads, take a right towards Blessington and Kilbride and stay on that road until you arrive at a small church. The spot is down under the road.
From Kippure it is probably 20kms or so.

https://www.townlands.ie/wicklow/lower-talbotstown/kilbride/kilbride/cloghleagh/

uck51js9zml2yt

Loki - how near to kippure estate is cloughlea? Great photo but cant find it on the map.

keps

Is that a new type of Gin?

Loki98

Yes, A lot of abuse

keps

@ Loki

Did you get anything in the Duty Free?

Loki98

But.... but.... the planning...... the packing......the travel......

mystic86

Loki98 wrote: »

Great timing Mick and a great example of 'F8 and be there' :P:D

Metric Tensor

Great response Judge - thanks very much for the detailed descriptions. A lot of work to do before I get that far but good to see/know how it was done.

You've linked some impressive photographers - but I think some of them go a step too far. I like how yours come in just on the "real-life" side of otherworldly!

Judge

Metric Tensor wrote: »

@Judge

I really like this range of architectural photographs. As a total novice I'd love to know how you took and processed the shots.

keps wrote: »

Just to add to the above.

Judge's photos of Dublin buildings posted over the past 2/3 years( is it?) have been truly outstanding.

They all give a true - but always personal, unique and sometimes quirky ( in a nice way) representation of buildings a lot of us just pass by and take for granted.

I think there is a photo-book there

Thanks to both of you for your very kind comments.

You've probably guessed that the black and white pictures I've been posting recently have undergone very significant post-processing – much, much more than my colour work, which in most cases has involved little more than a few adjustments in Lightroom (15-20 minutes work per picture on average). No changes have been made to the physical structure of the subjects (bar removing some distracting elements like poles or wires) but the light that appears to fall on the buildings is almost completely artificial. The intention is to create a highly subjective view of each building – one that uses light and shade to emphasise and highlight shape, form and volume.

The technique for taking and processing these pictures follows that pioneered by the likes of Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia Anna Gospodaru. Work by Jay Vulture, Gediminas Karbauskis and Jin Mikami have also been influential. Joel Tjintjelaar's website contains a number of useful tutorials on the techniques used.

Most shots are long exposures using either a 10 or 16 stop neutral density filter with exposure times of anything from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This eliminates any people or traffic at street level and to smooth out the sky. In a few cases I've cheated and replaced the sky altogether.

The post processing involves:-

- Initial developing in Lightroom to correct any perspective issues and to produce a neutral, rather flat image with limited contrast.

- Conversion to black and white in Silver Efex Pro.

- Moving into Photoshop to make an often painstaking series of selections of elements of the picture, mainly using the pen tool but also using other select and mask techniques such as channels, color range selection and luminosity masks. The picture of Fitzwilton House has approximately 100 individual selections. This is the longest and most tedious part of the process.

- Using the selections I have made in combination with Photoshop's Layer Mask, Curves and Gradient tools to build up the light and dark portions of the image.

- Tidying up removing any artefacts, halos etc. caused by the processing and applying sharpening as required.

- Returning to Lightroom for final tweaks to the image, plus captioning, keywording and geotagging.

Metric Tensor – as a novice I hope the above doesn't scare you off! We were all novices at some time. There is a lot of work involved in putting together these images – including a lot more time in front of a computer that I'd really like – but the payoff in terms of personal satisfaction has been worth it (so far).

keps

Just to add to the above.

Judge's photos of Dublin buildings posted over the past 2/3 years( is it?) have been truly outstanding.

They all give a true - but always personal, unique and sometimes quirky ( in a nice way) representation of buildings a lot of us just pass by and take for granted.

I think there is a photo-book there

Metric Tensor

@Judge

Judge wrote: »

Fitzwilton House

I really like this range of architectural photographs. As a total novice I'd love to know how you took and processed the shots.

uck51js9zml2yt

redape99 wrote: »

Thanks for the very kind words OldGoat... I was just pointing the camera at the trees across the way during Ophelia taking lots of 1 second-ish exposures, stopping when I thought the window was about to get blown off its hinges! Most of the shots didn't work and only 1 or 2 came out in any way aesthetically pleasing so there really is a random element to it.

First rule of photography....It was a planned shot!:eek:

A question to those of you who have black backgrounds. How did you get them ?

OldGoat

redape99 wrote: »

... so there really is a random element to it.

That's 99% of my results when shooting for movement.

redape99

OldGoat wrote: »

This is one of the loveliest images I've seen posted on Boards in all my years here. I know it's not every ones cup of tea (no image will ever please everyone) but it ticks all my boxes. It captures the wind*, it's got an impressionistic quality that I love and it's coupled with a strong composition. I'd have that on my wall any day of the week. Kudos.

*Pet project of mine, photograph the wind.

Thanks for the very kind words OldGoat... I was just pointing the camera at the trees across the way during Ophelia taking lots of 1 second-ish exposures, stopping when I thought the window was about to get blown off its hinges! Most of the shots didn't work and only 1 or 2 came out in any way aesthetically pleasing so there really is a random element to it.

Wailin

ED E wrote: »

Lovely shot, my wallet cries at the thought of €1600 for a "niche" use lens though.

Thanks Ed. It's not really a niche lens though, as most people think. I normally shoot landscape with 16-36mm F4 lens, usually at 16mm. Don't get me wrong, really great lens and very sharp. But it does suffer with field curvature, lens distortion and slight softness in the corners (it's still a far better lens than the 16-35mm F2.8 mk II though).

Using the shift function on the 24mm TSE allows me to take 3 vertical shots without moving the actual camera and is roughly the equivalent of 16mm FOV when stitched but with no distortion (very little anyway), perfect sharpness from corner to corner and much higher resolution for prints because its 3 large files stitched together. Only have it a few days but very pleased with the results so far. I may end up selling the 16-35mm if this takes over all the wide angled stuff.

The tilt function is something I can't see myself ever really using, I just put it to the test while at Lough Dan the other day.

uck51js9zml2yt

ED E wrote: »

Lovely shot, my wallet cries at the thought of €1600 for a "niche" use lens though.

If that's "Messing around" I can't wait to see his serious stuff.

ED E

Wailin wrote: »

Lovely shot, my wallet cries at the thought of €1600 for a "niche" use lens though.