[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 18, 2007 at 10:49 pm

It in my opinion is the very same shot but resized copied and pasted onto the landscape and desaturated!

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 18, 2007 at 6:29 pm

I agree with you Mark about the spot colouring being out of fashion and the focus not being sharp enough, that was my reason for posting, just wanted reassurance!

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 17, 2007 at 6:31 pm

Good point about the flowers in colour beimg out of focus, thought that myself, might just go with the original!

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 17, 2007 at 5:22 pm

Just heard late today, fairly shocked about the scant media coverage of the tragedy!

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 16, 2007 at 4:22 pm

Definitely the last one stands out, fantastic detail

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 6, 2007 at 9:41 pm

Shot 2 without a doubt

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 6, 2007 at 9:38 pm

Helen wrote:

Thanks Evan and Noely

it was a very warm day in Cappamore, they always get a fine day for their show no matter how bad the summer.

Thank you so much for the suggestions.

Helen

I’m a Cappamore man myself, never made it too the show though with work, good photos

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 6, 2007 at 9:36 pm

I don’t think I edited any of that original photo, unless I did something by accident, I have adobe lightroom installed recently and I open my files through that, maybe there is a preset action that could be effecting my photos, I have a suspicion about it, I’ll check it out now that you seem to think it was altered too. Thats a great bit of advice on photoshop, I’ll be sure to save that, thanks

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 6, 2007 at 9:25 pm

Hey,
great to see photos of Clare glens, when I first got my d50 its the first place I went, here are some of my amatuer efforts! I love the third pic you did, excellent!

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 5, 2007 at 9:35 pm

That makes a great improvement, thats the effect I’d like straight from the camera! The colour cast might have something to do with shooting through a wire mesh fence, I focused it out as much as I could.

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 4, 2007 at 11:20 pm

stcstc wrote:

first of all what lens you using?? this can have a massive impact

secondly are you shooting raw or JPG
if raw then you have to sharpen in post processing

what kind of autofocus were you using it could be that the focus is in oneshot mode, ie it locks on thenif you or subject move the focus will not then be locked

It was the 300mm length of a 70 – 300mm nikkor lense, not VR unfortunately. I think you might have hit on my problem, I did shoot RAW format but didn’t realise I had to sharpen it in RAW. I was justtrying to get the best results from the camera without any post processing. I’ll know in future, thanks

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

September 4, 2007 at 11:17 pm

Mark wrote:

Hi Ciaran,

I have a D200 also and haven’t had a problem but did notice when I got it that it wasn’t immediately as sharp
as the D70 I had before. This was because the D70 did more in camera sharpening that the D200.

How much sharpening did you apply to this in say the raw convertor (assuming you used one) and in your post-processing
software ?

thanks

I actually didn’t apply any sharpening for this photo as I just wanted to demonstrate my problem. Maybe I’m expecting too muc from the camera

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

August 28, 2007 at 5:05 pm

Thank you very much for the review, I had a look at some of your work also, I’m familiar with a lot of the places you shoot at, I have a few photos of lahinch and that area myself, I look forward to seeing more

[Ciaran O Keeffe]

August 24, 2007 at 7:47 am

Glad to see another Limerick man onboard!