Tag Archives: Photography

Nature Photographers Online Magazine has been updated with the February issue. I’ll get stuck into it later tonight. Looks like some good reading!
Is digital ready for the wilds? Fascinating article about bringing a digital camera into the wilderness for 3 weeks. I don’t think I’ll be following in his footsteps any time soon however!

Amazing action shot from a rugby match in Ulster. Whatever about the guy leaping through the air, I love the expression on the opposing team player on the ground!

Sometimes there’s a story behind photographs, and Michael relates an experience he had one morning finding that story.
I hesitated before linking to this as I think that “finding the story” could also be the curse of photography. Michael spent so much time looking for great shots that he may have missed enjoying a beautiful morning.
We as photographers spend so much time analysing situations, scenes and lighting that we miss the point of being in a particular place, whether it be on holiday or submerged in the mundane activity of life.
Needless to say, this curse also afflicts my life.

Photosig has a couple of images that I liked this morning:

• Nightriding – I have to try something like this. It’s surreal. Liam created a nightime photo of his own. I took a few photos last night, and may post a few later!
• Trine – In this day and age of computer post processing this is a great example of what can be done, without a computer!
• Brothers – great portrait of 3 kids. Good DOF, and well composed!

There are several good tips in this article on stage photography. It’ll certainly come in useful in the future! The one tip I hadn’t thought of was using centre weighted or spot metering to calculate the exposure settings.
To that I might add using AE lock if the lighting is any way static. Of course, that situation rarely occurs but I’ll give it a go the next time I’m shooting TKOH!

Great story about Joe McNally’s efforts to use digital photography for a major story in the National Geographic. John, do you have that issue? I’d love to see how the photos came out! (more at ars too.)

This is a good article covering some of the issues the b/w photographer will come across when using digital “film”. There’s so much here I need to have another read of this later to digest it and experiment with photos at home. The site also has several other good photography how-to documents, and is well worth a visit.

Regular readers may notice the slight change in the site design here. That photos above is a panorama of 6 photographs stitched together. It covers a major portion of Cork City, and the North Side of the city. I’m not 100% happy with it yet and it may be pruned slightly as I crop and compose it for the best effect.
Now, does anyone know a shop that’ll print a very large copy of that picture on photo paper?

So, after Spanish class last night, I wandered up Patrick’s Hill (in the car, walking up there is a burden I can do without!) to take some photos of the North Side. I snapped a few shots before running back to the car out of the cold, cursing myself for not bringing a scarf or a warmer coat!
Later when I examined the photos I noticed a trail of what looks like smoke in one of the shots just behind the Cathedral. In the next shot taken a few seconds later it’s missing. What could it be? Conspiracy theories and outragous comments welcome! 🙂
Photo information: Pictures taken 2-3 seconds apart, 2 second exposure, F2.0, ISO 100, Exposure Value 0.0

By the River Lee in Mahon last night.

This image is made up of 4 photographs stitched together in the GIMP. I was playing around with Hugen, and Panorama tools but couldn’t get it to work at all well on any of the photos I tried. Back to the GIMP and I managed rather well IMO! It’s not perfect but at this low res it’s not that bad!
Click on the image for a larger version! And original .xcf file is available for any that ask!