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Some More Old Stones
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Some more photos of old stones (I sharpen these to within an inch of their lives btw so they cant be enlarged, might be a bit too much on LCD monitors)
The old reliable Poulnabrone Dolmen, Co. Clare
Castlenalacht Stone Row (near Bandon, Co. Cork)
Cuchulainns Stone, Rathiddy, Co. Louth.
I’m a big fan of night time photography, I dont usually like light pollution from nearby towns but thankfully it wasn’t too cloudy. The colours are not photoshopped, if you have’t taken photos in the depths of night before you’ll be amazed at the colours you get!
Haroldstown Dolmen, Co. Carlow.
A pretty insipid sunset gave way to a very atmospheric twilight at this portal tomb which has stood in this field near a river for over 5,000 years.My goodness we are blessed with some gifted photographers on this forum! These shots are great and you clearly know what you are doing in terms of composition and exposure. Would you care to share some technical details of these shots in terms of set-up, exposure etc?
They make a great series of shots, but each stands individually as well.Very good!
Did you use some side lights for these shots?
In the third photo the stars are not moved using long shuter speed, is it sandwich of two photos?Thanks guys, glad to get a positive response to my first tentative pic postings:)
There is sidelighting used on three of the four photos, I use aperture priority at all times (except at night when I use manual) and meter for how I would like the background to come out, then if necessary use flash compensation to bring out the foreground. The lens used on all except the night time standing stone was a Tamron 11-18mm super wide which is sharp enough and gets lots of the sky in the frame, great when you have a nice big sky above. I usually start at F10 and work down to F8 or F7 if absolutely necessary to balance the flash and on my old D70 usually found myself setting exposure compensation at -3 or lower at times and almost always (over)use a cokin ND grad.
The photo with the stars and the stone was taken with the Nikkor 12-24 at 16mm, using a very wide angle means the length of time you can use before star trails appear is lengthened, this was 30 seconds and I guess I could have gotten away with another 10 seconds before trails became really obvious. The bright lights from Dundalk town kept the exposure down though.
Incredible work there Cian. Outstanding composition on every shot. You’ll definitely have to share some of your knowledge of night photography with the rest of us. Fantastic first posts. Welcome to the site btw.
Rob.
Love them Cian, nice vivid colours. In terms of composition, number 2 is my favourite, with the stones going off into the distance. For colour, the last gets my vote – beautiful sky.
Wonderful photographs. I’m really impressed. More new techniques to try out.
Those are amazing. I love the composition and sky in 2 (even if you did take it in the dingiest part of west cork ;-) ). I’m just a sucker for stars so 3 gets a big thumbs up from me too.
//Cian
Incredible work Ken, truely inspirational. Had a look at your site there. Fingers crossed i’ll make it to the exhibition in Kells before the end of the month.
Ken
Can you provide more info on what you are referring to as ‘side-lighting’ for some of these?Ross
Fantastic shots Ken, and even more impressive website.
Some of your shots are inspirational.
Kevin
Now now, I’m living in that ‘dingiest’ part of west cork you speak off ;)
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