[ghibbett]

Hello all,

Nipped over to Ireland (both Northern and the Republic) from last Tuesday as was best man at a wedding on the weekend and went early to see a few sights. Some great skies to be had however it was too great a dynamic range for single shots, so I made HDRs out of the RAW images. Anyway, hope you enjoy a few of the goodies...! C&C welcome.

#1: Looking West from Carrick rope bridge

EF-S 17-55mm | 17mm | f/8.0

#2: Looking out through Londonderry city walls

EF-S 17-55mm | 21mm | f/6.3 | 1/200 sec | ISO100

#3: My Girlfriend on Londonderry city walls with some heavy HDR

EF-S 17-55mm | 20mm | f/5.6

#4: Slieve cliffs

EF-S 17-55mm | 17mm | f/7.1 | 1/640 sec | ISO100

#5: View out over the North Atlantic from Slieve cliffs

EF-S 10-22mm | 10mm | f/8.0

#6: Girlfriend on the Carrick rope bridge

EF-S 17-55mm | 24mm | f/6.3

More to follow...

[ghibbett]

A few more...

#7: Ballycastle harbour at dawn

EF-S 17-55mm | 37mm | f/9.0

#8: Dawn from Ballycastle bay

EF-S 17-55mm | 24mm | f/22

#9: Looking East from the Carrick peninsula

EF-S 17-55mm | 17mm | f/8.0

#10: Leading down to Carrick rope bridge

EF-S 17-55mm | 23mm | f/8.0

#11: Looking up from Carrick peninsula

EF-S 17-55mm | 21mm | f/8.0

#12: Looking East from the Giants Causeway

EF-S 17-55mm | 17mm | f/8.0


Don't know how to make them clickable to the decent sized version, but they're hosted from my Flickr site in my signature.

Cheers

[allymac123]

Some nice shots there. Thanks for sharing them

[icemanonline]

Crackin shots there..........or Der(The irish version) and like them or Dem!

Like #7: Ballycastle harbour at dawn.......that is a good shot ...very nice.

icemanonline

[Tobers]

Some nice pics there. I'm keen on #9 personally. I'm sure you could do some fairly cool Photoshop work on that with the cool sky, cliffs and sea.

Nice GF as well

[Brammers]

Nice shots - I'd love to see #4 & #5 in really punchy black and white. I'm not entirely convinced by your HDRs though I'm afraid.

[geofftelforduk]

Excellent shots all round!! Love the first one and just to clear up any potential confusion (its Carrick-a-rede)! "Carrick" is another town along the coast from Belfast!!

Nice shots!

[stevegreen]

I recognise a lot of those places!

Great shots. The Dawn from Ballycastle is my favorite and that rope bridge looks a damn sight quiter than when we were there at the weekend!

[pixelpixel]

Nice pictures, did you stay in Ballycastle ? Did you go to rathlin island ?

[ghibbett]

Originally Posted by icemanonline

Crackin shots there..........or Der(The irish version) and like them or Dem!

*sniggers*

Originally Posted by geofftelforduk

Excellent shots all round!! Love the first one and just to clear up any potential confusion (its Carrick-a-rede)! "Carrick" is another town along the coast from Belfast!!

Thanks for the tip. I did know the "-a-read" bit but was being lazy. No excuse though.

Originally Posted by pixelpixel

Nice pictures, did you stay in Ballycastle ? Did you go to rathlin island ?

Yes we did stay in Ballycastle (lovely B&B with great views of the harbour) but didnt make it over to Rathlin Island. Instead did the causeway (over-rated and too touristy), rope bridge (I really enjoyed this) and then drove through Port Stewart and Port Rush on to Londonderry. Then from there off to Donegal. Quite a long day that one, 'specially with being up at 06:00 for the sunrise back in ballycastle!


Anyways, thanks to all for the comments. Most of the HDRs were done to the max (i.e. in Photomatix with the Strength slider to the max) however I still didnt seem to get the extreme effect I've seen on some other photos. Maybe the sky just wasnt intense enough

[denno75uk]

Really nice set of shots. Dawn from Ballycastle and Carrick Peninsula do it for me.

[pixelpixel]

Originally Posted by ghibbett

through Port Stewart and Port Rush on to Londonderry.

Still getting them place names wrong