Glendalough Sunrise catcher

DutchGuy

DK32 wrote: »

Hey all,

Few things to bring with you if you have them;

Warm clothing, Fleece, hat, gloves (forecast -1 for Sunday morning)
Plastic bag or bin liner if you bring a change of shoes / hiking boots with you, might be mucky up there.
Hot Flask, cold drink, snacks.
Torch / Light

Just one thing to add - fully charged batteries The cold in the mountains will drain batteries very quickly.

SinisterDexter

swingking wrote: »

All we need to happen tomorrow morning is for there to be a massive cloud cover blocking out the lovely sun.

If this happens then we will have all the time in the world to work out what punishment to give you for hexing us!

xia

Exactly!! We'll have the same or even nicer sunrise we had the last days! End of discussion!!




:D

pixbyjohn

There is a good group going on this which is great. I will bring my car and if anyone requires a lift home I will have 3 seats available. Hopefully I awaken on time so see you all at 5 a.m. in the carpark.

kjt

Woohoo 5hours sleep, lets do this!!

Cya you bring and early folks :-)

alexlyons

doubt i'll be getting to bed for at least an hour! charging up the batteries from the shoot today, check it out! can't wait folks!

kjt

Awh.........YEA! Top of the morning folks, time to rock and roll!

DutchGuy

While the rest of you are probably still out in Glendalough I thought I'd post up a quick few pictures:







I'm not too happy about the fact that my best pictures all seem to be at the bottom of the hill....

eightcell

Damn... that was quick!
A big thanks to SinisterDexter for the lift out and DutchGuy for dropping me back into town!

kjt

Brilliant day guys, I stayed out shooting till about 9, cracking morning for it!! Looking forward to seeing everyone's shots

Cheers Sinister!

alexlyons

big thanks to everyone for the encouragement! great trip, even if it was a bit cold! thanks to dutch guy and dan for the lifts! I'll get a few photos up shortly, have loads to do!

pixbyjohn

This was some climb, phew I just made it. But where was the sunrise ?

alexlyons

great shot john, wish I had something similar! wasn't the best sunrise but was worth it all the same.

pixbyjohn

Fenster,(Mark) nice to meet you.

pixbyjohn

Royal Hotel Glendalough, a very welcome breakfast

xia

Brilliant morning:) Who cares about a sunrise behind a mountain? Well worth it nonetheless. Thanks everyone.
And sorry DutchGuy and Eightcell. Didn't realise you won't join for the hotel - otherwise I wouldn't just have left!

Had a quick look through mine and am quite happy. After a hot shower I'll look closer and upload. And can't wait for the film to finally be completed...

alexlyons

I had a GPS tracker with me, no 100% sure the best way to do this so any suggestions welcome.

The GPX track is here (or at least some of it! your not tracking me home ) so best bet is to download it and head to this website. It'll show you hillary's track on everest, just hit load up the top left, choose the file and hit load gpx track. Probably better for those that didn't make it to see where we went, but anyone else can use it to geotag there photos. It's not exact but gives a good idea.

Still going through mine photos, some great ones already up.

kjt

That's pretty sweet!!

alexlyons

just one from me for now.

swingking

alexlyons

beautiful!

swingking

kjt wrote: »

Brilliant day guys, I stayed out shooting till about 9, cracking morning for it!! Looking forward to seeing everyone's shots

Cheers Sinister!

We were guessing you had died and we were putting bids on who gets your equipment

Nah, only kidding. Glad to see you had fun. Looking forward to seeing your pics :pac:

swingking

alexlyons

really like number 2 swingking! is number 3 a bit crooked? brilliant all the same

kjt

alexlyons wrote: »

really like number 2 swingking! is number 3 a bit crooked? brilliant all the same

Yea it looks like #3 is a bit off but it's deffo my favourite. Lovely shot Stephen!

swingking

it's so funny. You spend so long setting up the camera; paying attention to the composition and lighting. Calculating the exposure.

And you end with a feckin crooked shot what's the story with that

eightcell

alexlyons

swingking wrote: »

it's so funny. You spend so long setting up the camera; paying attention to the composition and lighting. Calculating the exposure.

And you end with a feckin crooked shot what's the story with that

theres that handy lookin level yoke on most tripods

admittedly very similar to everyone else's, but if my stupid computer hadn't decided to do everything but what I wanted, I would have been first I would hope I'm getting slightly better at this(??!). thoughts?

i appreciate these are quite large, but I'm having trouble with flickr etc and want to get them up. no more this size, I promise!

xia

And some of mine from up Spink - a "few" more on my flickr...

At 6.17 am :eek:



Glendalough and Lower Lake


Camaderry in Morning Sun


Glendalough in Morning Sun

xia

And from the Monastery...

alexlyons

really great depth of field in a few of them, very very clear as well!

xia

And finally some of you:)





I don't know John, but somehow you look grumpy here;) (scnr)

xia

Thanks Alex! Yeah, suppose camera and lenses are not too badly choosen.

alexlyons

nope, nikons are great I find, really good clarity even in the "cheaper" stuff!

Fenster

pixbyjohn

xia wrote: »

And finally some of you:)
I don't know John, but somehow you look grumpy here;) (scnr)

I was posing, right

xia

Ahhhh!! Ok, well then....:cool:

Fenster

Noisy as hell. Oh well.

swingking

My last shot of the day. The black and white conversion gives it an old-school look

pixbyjohn

pixbyjohn

peter1892

Folks - was the upper lake carpark open/accessible at that hour of the morning?

swingking

No the barrier was down. We just parked on the side of the road.

alexlyons

one more from me

swingking

Sky is amazing in that shot Alex. Is that an IR shot?

alexlyons

cheers! ye it started out as an IR, fair bit of tweaking involved in that one! probably one of the best shots I got up top

DK32

If I were to sum up the walk, I'd say, It started out well until I got the most terrible chest pains I have ever had. I’m normally quite active and walk a lot so this scared me a bit. I guess the steady paced walk up steep hills and steps didn’t agree with me. So instead of risking injury or worse mountain rescue, I turned round and went back to the top lake. I had lots of time to mess around with long exposures and various levels of light as Sunrise approached.

This image sums up how I felt just after I got back to the lake on my own,



More:







The rest are currently on pix.ie and will probably be on Flickr by the end of the week.

alexlyons

Great shots dan! Shame about Your chest, hope all is well! Number 1 is amazing, I'll be trying something similar soon! Number 3 is my favourite, different and really nice, there's. Something about it that makes me just go "wow"!!

DK32

Thanks Alex. The 3rd shot is HDR compiled using 5 bracketed images. These are then compiled in photomatix and then I applied some curves, contrast/brightness in CS4.
These kind of shots can work well for HDR because of the lack of good light you get to bring out detail across the whole image rather than just the sky.

Here is a non HDR to show the difference and another where I have just increased the blacks to enhance the sky only.

alexlyons

Brilliant! Does the camera do the bracketing automatically? I'd never have thought it was a HDR, most of the ones I've seen look ridiculous!

The second image there looks pretty cool, but I see what your getting at in terms of the different exposures for different parts.
You're pretty good at it all, I'm always trying to learn from my own and others experience, so apologies for any stupid questions!

One last thing, where was that taken in relation to the upper lake where we met you when we came down?