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Took a bit of a long spin today, down around Wexford (SUCH a pretty part of the country) .. and somehow ended up at Hook .. the sea was amazing..
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Nice sharp shot Lorraine, I like the composition and the sky is wonderful … was a polariser used?
Dara.Howya Lorraine, I’m surprised this hasn’t got more positive feedback than this. I really like the composition and love the cloud and sky. the lighthouse has a kina converging lines feel to it. It looks to be leaning into the picture. That aside it was defo worth a drive down the Sunny SE.
Thanks Dara – I definately used a polariser – but I also added punch to the sky in PS aswell.. polariser really helped with the glare on the sea though :) There’s even a teeny ickkle boat out there :)
Brian :) this was taken at the wide end on my 10-20 mill.. I tried to compose the shot so i wouldn’t get any distortion when i cropped for the image … but it didn’t quite avoid it – I’m sure I could straighten the light house itself but it has elongated the circular shapre of the lighthouse to an elipse … and I think that throws people off with this shot. Personally – I think its worth it ;)
Thanks for the comments ;)
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Thats gorgeous. I love the sharpness and vividness of this. The only way to improve it I can think of would be that possibly the lighthouse is a little bit distorted due to the wideness of the angle of the lens. It might be worth trying a version through the photoshop Lens distortion correction tool.
I agree with you Lorraine, this is most certainly a very, very interesting and classy image…you really gave that sky some punch!
Not much to add, great image.
The eliptic lighthouse does look odd, but I guess that’s what 11 mm do to lighthouses :wink:
Absolutely superb foreground detail, and that sky couldn’t have been
exposed any better. Elipses notwithstanding, that is one stunner.
Congrats on never failing to impress.Rob.
Gerard – Thanks for the tip – I had fiddled around with a couple of other shots last night and wasn’t happy with them.. I didn’t try it with this becasue I got sleepy and wanted to go to bed :lol: All the same I think you are right – and I could use it to at least correct the “lean” of the lighthouse if not the elipse iyself .. I think Hauke put it perfectly – this is how a lighthouse will look at 11mm. :)
Pippatee – Thanks so much for the comment – I’m delighted you like this :)
Hauke – ;) succinct as ever ;) Thank you
Rob – you can’t fail to get something decent there to be honest .. Its such a hypnotic place, I’d love to get down there again when there is some real drama going on .. I might be developing a crush on lighthouses ;)
Thanks again !
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Being a Wexford man I think I can speak with some authority on the Hook Lighthouse. It’s been photographed to death down here. We tend to yawn and look to heaven when we see another one.
I like this one a lot. Nice job. Well done.Mike
I’m going to risk being difficult here-
I photographed this myself, some years back,
and from what I can remember,
it promised more than it delivered-Everything is done very well here,
nicely composed, lit and exposed,
but somehow its not doing much for me-One thing might change that,
and that would be the chance to see all the detail,
in a print.That little boat, for a start-
and some of the textures in the rock and concrete-And since I’m giving free advice,
this could be a good candidate for a conversion-100% crop?
at the risk of being even more difficult?j
Thanks Eddie and Ossie ( sorry I missed you there for a mo :) welcome to the forum ) I appreciate you taking the time to comment – and I’m really pleased you like this one
JB – .. Your critique and comments are alway welcome … I’m happy to hear your feedback (selfishly because it usually helps me improve something :) ) – I’m usually the first to do a conversion but I’m trying to explore colour first for the moment – I barely resisted the temptation though… Let see what we can do about your requests .. here goes ;)
link to the full size
http://www.lorrainegilligan.com/misc/Hook2.jpg
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Hi Lorraine, nice to see a post from you again, they’ve been scarce.
As Mike said (Wexkel11) it’s yawn time for us in the South East but you seem to have made it interesting. I won’t go into the distortion as it’s been said.
Next time you’re down in this neck of the woods take a trip to Slade. It’s left at the roundabout at the end of the Hook peninsula and brings you down to a small fishing village with a ruin. It’s beautiful during summer evenings and a walk down along the coast is well worth it. And we all know about Loftus Hall that is crying out for a spooky image!
Nice one.
Alan.
Thanks Alan :) Appreciated
I’m sure I’ll be making a point to get that way again – I missed Tintern Abbey aswell and its on my list :) West Cork is my favourit retreat place.. but I think I need to spend some time in that area.
Thanks for the tip – slade goes on the list :)
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