In Photos dot Org » swans http://inphotos.org no photoshopped images here Sun, 19 May 2013 21:26:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Lough Swans http://inphotos.org/2012/09/24/lough-swans/ http://inphotos.org/2012/09/24/lough-swans/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:00:17 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/?p=6180 Two swans swam curiously over to us at the Lough, Cork a few months ago. Photo Info Aperture ƒ/5 Camera Canon EOS 40D Focal length 48mm ISO 100 Shutter speed 1/40s Related Posts Swans on The Lough Feed the swans at the Lough The Swan’s Wings

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Two swans swam curiously over to us at the Lough, Cork a few months ago.
Photo Info
Aperture ƒ/5
Camera Canon EOS 40D
Focal length 48mm
ISO 100
Shutter speed 1/40s

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2012/09/24/lough-swans/feed/ 0 Kinsale at Night http://inphotos.org/2008/07/02/kinsale-at-night/ http://inphotos.org/2008/07/02/kinsale-at-night/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:38:30 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/?p=2490 The quiet, residential part of Kinsale as photographed from the busy touristy part across the harbour! This was a long exposure shot that came out quite nicely but it did show up the dead pixels on my sensor again. Good thing I don’t have time to shoot many of these types of photos nowadays. The …

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The quiet, residential part of Kinsale as photographed from the busy touristy part across the harbour! This was a long exposure shot that came out quite nicely but it did show up the dead pixels on my sensor again. Good thing I don’t have time to shoot many of these types of photos nowadays.

The fight against comment spammers never ends. This blog is listed on a few “do follow” listings and I caught someone this morning leaving a comment after they came here from a “site:inphotos.org” Google search. The comment is delinked but even if I hadn’t, his url still wouldn’t have shown because I only show it after a certain number of comments have been made. It’s my thank you to the regular commenters here. The pagerank you get from that link isn’t diluted by the spammers.

PS. Phil O’Kane will be in Cork next weekend from Friday to Sunday. I’ll be meeting him at Robodock at 3pm and hopefully before but maybe we can get a small photomeet together at some stage on Saturday or Sunday?
Photo Info
Aperture ƒ/4
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 18mm
ISO 100
Shutter speed 15s

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2008/07/02/kinsale-at-night/feed/ 6 Swans on The Lough http://inphotos.org/2008/03/26/swans-on-the-lough/ http://inphotos.org/2008/03/26/swans-on-the-lough/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:08:43 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/?p=1279 Swans on The Lough Swans swim past on The Lough in Cork City. This was one of the first photos I took at the recent photowalk there. Despite the clear blue sky and lovely light it was quite cold with a biting wind! Related Posts Lough Swans Feed the swans at the Lough The Swan’s …

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Swans on The Lough

Swans swim past on The Lough in Cork City. This was one of the first photos I took at the recent photowalk there. Despite the clear blue sky and lovely light it was quite cold with a biting wind!

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2008/03/26/swans-on-the-lough/feed/ 4 Three’s a crowd http://inphotos.org/2008/03/25/threes-a-crowd/ http://inphotos.org/2008/03/25/threes-a-crowd/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:40:56 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/?p=1278 Three’s a crowd Some of the swans at the Lough a few weeks ago during the photo walk. Got a few more shots from that session to post! Related Posts Many faces in the crowd The Stanley Super 800 crowd A young leprechaun in the crowd

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Three’s a crowd

Some of the swans at the Lough a few weeks ago during the photo walk. Got a few more shots from that session to post!

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2008/03/25/threes-a-crowd/feed/ 1 Heads up at the Lough http://inphotos.org/2008/03/15/heads-up-at-the-lough/ http://inphotos.org/2008/03/15/heads-up-at-the-lough/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:57:10 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/heads-up-at-the-lough/ Heads up at the Lough This was shot from a precarious position. I jumped up on one of the concrete posts dotted around the pond and very carefully snapped a couple of shots. I just about managed to balance there for a few minutes! See the two black swans everyone else was shooting? From left …

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Heads up at the Lough

This was shot from a precarious position. I jumped up on one of the concrete posts dotted around the pond and very carefully snapped a couple of shots. I just about managed to balance there for a few minutes! See the two black swans everyone else was shooting?

From left to right: Donal, Ryan, Kevin, Katie and Sean spotted me and started shooting the biggest birdbrain there ..

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Feed the swans at the Lough

Girls feed the swans at the Lough on Sunday afternoon.

Urban acid :)

Will posted his first photo from the day on his blog. He did arrive late, but he made up for lost time!

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2008/03/12/feed-the-swans-at-the-lough/feed/ 2 The Swan’s Wings http://inphotos.org/2008/03/11/the-swans-wings/ http://inphotos.org/2008/03/11/the-swans-wings/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:15:09 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/the-swans-wings/ The Swan’s Wings You really only appreciate how large and imposing a swan is when they rear up out of the water and spread their magnificent wings. While at The Lough on Sunday there were a number of fights between swans. Guess it’s that time of the year again, eh? The swans were fairly tame …

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The Swan’s Wings

You really only appreciate how large and imposing a swan is when they rear up out of the water and spread their magnificent wings. While at The Lough on Sunday there were a number of fights between swans. Guess it’s that time of the year again, eh?

The swans were fairly tame towards us humans, and allowed us to shoot quite closely, but I’ve had run ins with swans before and I’m always suspicious of them!

Katie caught me as I lay on the ground to get a shot of The Lough Church. Embarrassed? Me? Never, I’ve been in many other more compromising situations just to get a shot!

Ryan posted a whole set of photos from the day and Kevin has posted his first shot.

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2008/03/11/the-swans-wings/feed/ 6 The lonely swan http://inphotos.org/2007/01/30/the-lonely-swan/ http://inphotos.org/2007/01/30/the-lonely-swan/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:09:56 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/the-lonely-swan/ The lonely swan A solitary swan swims on the calm waters of The Lough as the sun disappears at the end of the day. Believe it or not, this is a 10 second exposure that turned out much better than I could have hoped! I balanced my camera on the edge of the Lough, set …

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The lonely swan

A solitary swan swims on the calm waters of The Lough as the sun disappears at the end of the day.

Believe it or not, this is a 10 second exposure that turned out much better than I could have hoped! I balanced my camera on the edge of the Lough, set it to Aperture priority mode at f/11, dialed the exposure down two stops, flipped up the camera flash and took the shot.

How does this work?

  • By setting the aperture to a fairly high value little light is let into the camera sensor.
  • By setting the exposure down two stops the whole scene will be underexposed but bright areas will be exposed mostly correctly.
  • Given the above settings, any dark moving objects will be completely invisible so when the flash fired it picked out the swan swimming past and even created a nice reflection in the water.

Hope that helps!

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2007/01/30/the-lonely-swan/feed/ 12 The swans they are a coming http://inphotos.org/2007/01/16/the-swans-they-are-a-coming/ http://inphotos.org/2007/01/16/the-swans-they-are-a-coming/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:55:35 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/the-swans-they-are-a-coming/ The swans they are a coming Swans rush to the bank of the Lough looking for bread from the crazy guy hanging over the water with a large black object… This shows off one of my favourite night-time techniques. Long exposure with a flash. The long exposure captures the background while the flash illuminates the …

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The swans they are a coming

Swans rush to the bank of the Lough looking for bread from the crazy guy hanging over the water with a large black object…

This shows off one of my favourite night-time techniques. Long exposure with a flash. The long exposure captures the background while the flash illuminates the foreground objects, along with some nice movement blur.
It works really well at parties when people are dancing, especially if you’re lucky to capture a laughing face while the body is in motion.

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2007/01/16/the-swans-they-are-a-coming/feed/ 4 Swan and Young http://inphotos.org/2006/07/08/swan-and-young/ http://inphotos.org/2006/07/08/swan-and-young/#comments Sat, 08 Jul 2006 05:49:55 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/swan-and-young/ A mother swan and her young offspring. There was a lovely sunset causing a deep red reflection in the water. The mother swan was very protective and aggressive and reared up and spat at me a moment after I took this shot! Edit: This photo is hosted on Zoomr! Thomas Hawk is appealing to the …

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A mother swan and her young offspring. There was a lovely sunset causing a deep red reflection in the water. The mother swan was very protective and aggressive and reared up and spat at me a moment after I took this shot!

Edit: This photo is hosted on Zoomr! Thomas Hawk is appealing to the greed and curiousity of bloggers and giving out pro accounts to those who host a photo on their site and blog it. Hey! What can I say? I bit!

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