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Went and shot some time-lapse down the end of the Bull Wall today in the changeable weather. Shooting some backgrounds for the new ‘reel which I’m in the process of making. Lo and behold flickr announced HD video on their website for pro accounts, so here’s a sample. You probably have to click through to see the HD version.
The nice folks over at pix.ie have organised a bit of a coup for St Patrick’s Day which will encourage a slew of great Irish photographers out onto the streets to celebrate out national day. Read all about it by following this link.
They’ve collaborated with the Festival organisers to secure some great vantage points, and with Canon to dish out a few nice prizes for the best pictures from the day with a party afterwards in the Guinness Storehouse for 250 lucky Pixiers amongst others.
Please show your support and spread the word.
I’ve been revisiting the time-lapse footage I’ve shot over the years and have begin to wrestle with the issues of what resolution I should make this video on my home setup. In theory I could make this all the way up to 2k (film) but I’m a little limited by hardware at the moment.
Here’s an excerpt from what I’m at:
The fantastic Dave G Kelly has posted this video on his flickr, I’m getting pretty worked up about it now, looks great! If you look really carefully, there are 2 of my pictures in there …
Call in if you get the chance. For more details, visit dublinr.
Dublinr 5-9 November, Joinery Gallery.
Dublin is a city that, photographically at least, can be reduced to a set of clichés, but a new exhibition offers a fresh, vibrant perspective of the Irish Capital. Dublinr is organised by a group of photographers that came together through the photo sharing website flickr.
The exhibition opens at 6.00pm on Wednesday 5 November, and runs until Sunday 9, 11:00am – 6:30pm daily and admission is free.
The Joinery Gallery | Arbour Hill | Stoneybatter | Dublin 8.
More info: www.dublens.ie
Featuring: Andy Sheridan – bazkeogh – MacGBeing – hard numeral – Dave G Kelly – asteri design – Desmond Kavanagh – Kevin Plankton – Hugh_C – Slipping Away – Kev Mc – ~Solarina – Mark Waldron
It hadn’t always been the plan to go out and shoot a horse. Not the gun kind of shooting you understand, with a camera. I’d taken a detour from Brittas after the Wednesday night and headed circuitously to Carlow, down through parts of Wexford, through places where drenched crops stand in the field waiting for the merest glimmer of sun to dry out and be harvested. My heart goes out to farmers who have been hammered by the increasing rain. Apparently we should all be rearing kangaroos, because they don’t have the same emission problems as sheep and cattle, which belch and fart their way into CO² nirvana. Something to do with the construction of their upper stomachs.
My job was to find a perch above Carlow, a vantage point to make a timelapse film of that town for an upcoming project at work. So, mapless and clueless I headed for Carlow and saw a hill in the distance. And I navigated my way there via a flooded Barrow and through a series of lanes and boreens to the spot you’re seeing below.
The way I do timelapse is to use the dSLR with a tripod Shona gave me last year, frame up a shot and then exercise a lot of patience, click off an exposure (everything switched to manual) once every while and whistle. Or think, or whatever you do when you’ve a lot of time on your hands. Except I’m not very good at keeping time in my head, and since this exercise was only a test and I wasn’t taking it as seriously as I should, the interval between my clicks wasn’t even, with the effect that the clouds stumble across the sky like so many drunken ghosts instead of a nice orderly procession. Ah well.
So after an hour in the sun, I decided to pack up, head for the car and find some lunch. On the way though I heard a whinny and lo there was a horse standing by a gate, looking melancholy. Naturally I went over and looked at it up close. What you don’t realise (if you’re like me and unhorsed) is that horses heads are huge, I mean massive. Which immediately got me thinking about The Godfather and that scene. Anyway, out came the camera again, stuck on the stubby 50 and squeezed me off some shots. One of which you see above. This brought me by a commodius vicus to Cormac McCarthy and one of his trilogy: All the Pretty Horses. A book I read but didn’t enjoy too much because of its Spanish content and my lack of understanding of it. In contrast The Road brought a lump to my throat and No Country … left me breathless. I could go on but probably shouldn’t.
Below: some timelapse from the plains.
Marcus McInnes of pix.ie and Lisa Fitzsimons from Guinness organised a photowalk around the Guinness Storehouse early this morning before it was open to the public. This is an amazing place, the most visited attraction in the country with over a million visitors per year. Great opportunity to take a few snaps, you can read all about it here.
