Not too long ago I posted a photo from last weekend’s Midland Motor Club Rally, and here’s another one from that day. Some neighbours of ours had the clever idea of getting a better view of the approaching cars. Now if only they had been selling ice cream as well.
Aughadowry Skylift
I’m hoping I haven’t over processed this shot but the original was completely cocked. I accidentally took it without checking my camera settings and didn’t realise that I still had a tungsten colour balance filter set. Hence the original shot was extremely blue.
Oops - Tungsten
In fact, just to show you how cocked that shot was, I’ll post the original here as well. I figured going black and white was the only option as I’d never get the original colour tone back (well, I might have if I had shot in RAW, but no, this one was already compressed).
Anyway, hope you like it. Hopefully I’ll get a good shot out of some of the pictures I took down in Galway last weekend and get them up soon.
Date Added: April 12th, 2009 | Leave a comment!
This weekend we had the pleasure of having the Midlands Motor Club ‘Stages Rally 2009′ zoom around our locality here in Longford. It’s hard to get a decent shot when the cars just fly by in an instant and I’ve never really tried this type of photography. This was the only shot that came any way near being interesting.
Taking the turn a fraction wide
It’s the first time I’ve taken stuff in RAW mode having actually read up a bit on what RAW actually means. I can definitely see the potential advantage on import though, but still found it hard to get a decent balance of brightness thanks to the glaring sun on the clouds in the distance.
Date Added: April 8th, 2009 | Leave a comment!
No this has nothing to do with the recent Cowengate, although definitely I should take a photo of a cow and gate which shouldn’t be a problem round here. This is a photo of ice melting on a gate in silhouette and was actually taken just over a year ago on the 3rd of March 2008.
Snow and gate
I’m not sure exactly what I think of the quality of this photo. I like it, but there’s something about it which makes me feel as though I could have taken a better shot or brought it out better in post production.
Any advice welcome!
Date Added: April 3rd, 2009 | Leave a comment!
Originally my intention for Eidetic Opacity was for it to be a photoblog, but for whatever reason that never quite happened, and knowing me that’s not too bad a thing – there’d likely be long gaps of months between new photos.
Still there’s nothing in the world stopping me from posting the occasional photo, and whilst the design of this blog doesn’t exactly lend itself to expansive photo viewing, you can always click on the image to see a larger version of it!
Robert Playing Ball
Robert having a great time!
I always liked this photo, even though it’s way over exposed. I did a bit of post-processing in photoshop trying to follow a sort of “Lomo” effect technique I came across over on digital-photography-school.com. It’s probably not the best photo to try and achieve that effect with, but I think it worked out well enough in its own right.
Date Added: March 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments
