I’ve been wanting to give panning another good try, so I went down to Eyre Square after work tonight. The problem is that while there’s a few good spots to capture cars, the position of them means that drives can easily see you with the result that they think I’m with the Gardai or something and slow down. Fah!

Panning 1

Panning 2

Panning 3

Panning 4

#’s 3 and 4 were taken right at the top of the square opposite the bus rank, #2 was taken a little further down by Holland’s and #1 was from the top of Shop Steet, as car’s going into that corner make for great captures. Outside of Lightroom adjustments on the raw files, no processing work was done on these.

I’m back using OS X. Once again I gave up on wireless networking under Linux and I’m back to an OS X/Windows dualboot, decorated by Caira :]

December desktop

Umm, running Firefox, Adium, iTerm and Photoshop CS2.

I was up at 6am on Saturday morning to go out to Menlo Castle with Mike to capture the dawn. I was fairly trashed at work afterwards, but the result was great:

Dawn over Galway

This is a panorama of five photos, although I cropped down the sides as there wasn’t much interesting happening. The photos comprising it used the following settings:

1/4 second at f/9.5, ISO 800. White balance was set to shade to warm the colours and focus was manual. The only processing beyond stithcing was cloning out two city lights that ruined the photo.

Menlo at dawn

A few people have asked me to remove the power lines from this photo, but the gradient is too sharp to do it without a lot of trouble on my part. So feh to that.

I’m mad that I cut the arse off the car, this is one of my best tries at panning yet:

I’m mad

I’ve tried a few panning shots around Eyre Square and the top of Williamsgate Street as the lights from the shops provide great background to the car/bus/whatever.