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Together Forever

Graffiti on a St Patrick Street, Cork. A couple embraces and kisses forever lost in each other.

First time shooting on the street with the Canon 6D. I set up C1, one of the custom settings with the following:
1. Enable auto ISO and limit it to 100-128000.
2. Set the minimum shutter speed to 1/125.
3. Use medium RAW.

This should help me get sharp images, at the expense of more noise. It helped sometimes but at other times shooting from the hip was too much and the swing of my arm didn’t help matters. I culled about half of the images I took and I’ll probably delete more as I go over them again tomorrow.

Blarney House

Blarney House, an impressive building on the grounds of Blarney Castle in Co. Cork, Ireland. It’s a private residence but during the summer there are guided tours every half hour.

Focus on Flowers

Flowers in the gardens of Blarney Castle.

Never once in my wildest nightmares did I ever imagine that I’d post a camera phone image as a single post but here it is. Taken with my Samsung Galaxy S4. There’s obvious JPEG artefacts when you view the original at 100% but this 800×600 pixel image is good enough for web viewing and Lightroom does wonders even with JPEG files.

I’ve posted many more photos from the S4 on my Google Plus account but they’re straight from the camera and “enhanced” by G+ and still look pretty good!

Camera

GT-I9505

Commercial Property for Sale

Commercial property for sale, right in the centre of Bantry, Co Cork. Perfect location. Property may need modernising.

Aperture	ƒ/11
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	40mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/250s

Reflections of Oxford

Buildings nestled on the banks of a canal in Oxford, England.

Aperture	ƒ/9
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	10mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/160s

Paul Street in Lights

Another one of those shots I took on the photowalk last week in Cork City. This is the shopping centre in Paul Street. Tesco is obviously the main tenant!

Aperture	ƒ/14
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	10mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	8s

Cork This Evening

Cork City and the River Lee as it was a few hours ago. For once it stopped raining.

Aperture	ƒ/13
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	24mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/250s

Boats in Cobh

Some of the boats that have taken up semi-permanent residence in Cobh pictured in 2006. I think some of those boats are still there!

That was a beautiful but cold January evening.

Aperture	ƒ/4
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	18mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/500s

Wilton Road Roundabout

Flyovers are being built over the roundabouts in Wilton and Bishopstown in Cork right now and I’ve been meaning to photograph both building sites before construction was completed. I never imagined I’d be able to shoot the Wilton construction site from a plane!

Aperture	ƒ/14
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	10mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/400s

Hank Wedel and Friends in Charlies Pub Cork

Way back in 2009 we went to see Hank Wedel and other musicians play in Charlies Pub, Cork. It was a great night of music as far as I remember and it’s about time these photos see the light of day!

Aperture	ƒ/3.5
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	18mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/60s

Red Heart

A model walks down a catwalk in Union Square, San Francisco, July 27th 2007.

I was in the city with Automattic and we stayed in a nearby hotel so Union Square was a good spot to get photos. Can’t remember what occasion this fashion show was on for. I think it may have been some fashion school or something!

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	162mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/250s

Hank Wedel and band in the Castle Hotel, Blarney

Hank Wedel? and band at the Castle Hotel in Blarney on Sunday night. The band played a blinder despite the fact there was next to no room for them. These photos weren’t me walking up to them and sticking a camera in their faces, I had to lean back!

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	21mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/50s