After reading Darren's story on this Picture.

AnimalRights

http://pix.ie/darreng/812363/in/album/333553?#Comment349504

Where he spent so much time for a few photos I wondered what's the longest you've ever spent on a photo.
Think mine is about 1 minute.

DaireQuinlan

AnimalRights wrote: »

http://pix.ie/darreng/812363/in/album/333553?#Comment349504

Where he spent so much time for a few photos I wondered what's the longest you've ever spent on a photo.
Think mine is about 1 minute.

Ach, I was hoping for something actually dramatic, like he went to the lighthouse EVERY DAY FOR A YEAR or something before capturing just the light he was waiting for all that time

humberklog

I spent all day today looking for an empty derelict chair to photo. Darndale to Malahide to back of airport and eventually saw an old plastic school chair stuck on top of a mound of dirt with Ikea in the background. Hope it comes out as well as it looked through the viewer. So that was about 5 hours just today. For a chair...jesus wept. I'm deflated now. When I saw it I felt like a nature photographer catching two pandas going hard at it...but it was just a plastic chair in a fly tipping area at the back of Ballymun. Oh the glamour.

latchiko

The longest time I've spent taking a single photo is the hour and a half it took to take this star trail photo. Luckily the dolmen is close to the car park so once I had everything set up I was able to escape the bitter cold and wait in the car.

Dades

humberklog wrote: »

Hope it comes out as well as it looked through the viewer.

So do we... so get posting it here when it's done!

Dragan

About 5 months between deciding i wanted to take a picture and then being able to take it.:pac:

humberklog

Dades wrote: »

So do we... so get posting it here when it's done!

Well it'll take a little while as I've only set a flickr account up and I've already gone up to my monthly limit. So in fact this photo could run to weeks of work!? For a chair! In Bullymun!?

Covey

Tell us how you came upon the idea in the meantime.

humberklog

Covey wrote: »

Tell us how you came upon the idea in the meantime.

Just from flickr. I was looking at the different groups and liked the photos in that group. It's not really to take a picture of a chair solely but sometimes I like when I set myself a mission and more often than not it's the other things that happen in between that give me good results. It's just an excuse to travel around and you never know what's going to happen.

DaireQuinlan

humberklog wrote: »

Just from flickr. I was looking at the different groups and liked the photos in that group. It's not really to take a picture of a chair solely but sometimes I like when I set myself a mission and more often than not it's the other things that happen in between that give me good results. It's just an excuse to travel around and you never know what's going to happen.

http://flickr.com/groups/theleague/pool/ ??

I am proud to have had a shot that met the high standards of the group ...
http://flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/2696844122/

humberklog

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

http://flickr.com/groups/theleague/pool/ ??

I am proud to have had a shot that met the high standards of the group ...
http://flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/2696844122/

Well fair play. I submitted one but it was rejected so that kinda fired up the belly. But in fairness the person that contacted me then asked for a photo for "noli me tangere" group. Now I don't know what that means but it felt good.

whyulittle

Says Google.

DaireQuinlan

humberklog wrote: »

Well fair play. I submitted one but it was rejected so that kinda fired up the belly. But in fairness the person that contacted me then asked for a photo for "noli me tangere" group. Now I don't know what that means but it felt good.

welll, I was being a little facetious there, Its only a flickr group for gods sakes :pac:

Although, one moderated group which I really like is this one:
http://flickr.com/groups/onfilm/

Film only, but there's a pretty consistently high standard of moderation there.

And now ... back on topic ...

Valentia

Two years! Well not sitting in the one place but it took me two years to get it. On the Skelligs one year I got what I thought was a good shot of a puffin taking off: This one.

The more I looked at it the more annoyed I got looking at the severed wings. I went back the next year and got a load of duds. Then the year after and many clicks later I got this. I didn't know I had it until I got home and saw it on the screen.

Patience is a big factor with wildlife

bovril

There have been several times recently I've sat on the sand at the Bull Wall in the cold and very early in the morning waiting for the tide to come in and push the birds towards me only for them to be spooked by something after about 2.5 hours and leave me with no shot and frost bite

Hugh_C

AnimalRights wrote: »

I wondered what's the longest you've ever spent on a photo.
Think mine is about 1 minute.

5-and-a-half days to get a picture from the top of a huge mountain. Three months if you include the training

NORTH1

humberklog wrote: »

Well fair play. I submitted one but it was rejected so that kinda fired up the belly. But in fairness the person that contacted me then asked for a photo for "noli me tangere" group. Now I don't know what that means but it felt good.

Theres a two seater couch on the bend at Holly's town golf course, lying in the ditch I nearly stopped to get a photo of it as it looked so unsually there, but traffic was bad, and it was in a dangerous spot. Your welcome to try ;-)