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Apr
12
Photo of the Week 164 & 165 – Summer in Rathcoffey
Filed Under Photography on April 12, 2011 at 10:44 pm
It’s been a while since I missed a week, but I didn’t get around to posting a Photo of the Week the last two weekends, so this is a double-post to get caught up. As is my tradition with multiple posts, these are two related pictures – very related in fact, being two different renderings of the same picture!
The shot was taken on a fantastic summer day over-looking a field of Rape-seed flowers with an ancient ring fort in the left mid-ground, and the ruins of Rathcoffey Castle on the horizon.
The colour version was generated by tonemapping a single RAW image with Photomatix and Topaz Adjust, while the monocrhome version takes the colour version as it’s starting point before using the channel mixer in Aperture to convert it to a nice contrasty black and white shot.
- Camera: Nikon D40
- Lens: Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)
- Exposure: 1/800 sec
- Focal Length: 18mm
- Focal Ratio: f/8
- ISO: 200
- Camera Mode: Aperture Priority
- Processing: created by tonemapping a single RAW image with Photomatix Pro, tweaking the result with the Topaz Adjust 4 plugin, and finally making a few small fixes with Aperture’s built-in Dodge & Burn plugin
- Camera: Nikon D40
- Lens: Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)
- Exposure: 1/800 sec
- Focal Length: 18mm
- Focal Ratio: f/8
- ISO: 200
- Camera Mode: Aperture Priority
- Processing: created by tonemapping a single RAW image with Photomatix Pro, tweaking the result with the Topaz Adjust 4 plugin, and finally making a few small fixes with Aperture’s built-in Dodge & Burn plugin before using Aperture’s Channel Mixer brick to convert the image to monochrome
Nice shot. I personally really like the monochrome version. Thanks for sharing.
Has this not been a POTW before? I know I’ve seen it, or one very similar before.
Hi Allister – I did indeed use a similar shot before – but I thought they were different enough to warrant a separate post – the one you remember is Photo of the Week 116 & 117 – Big Summer Skies.
In that shot I intentionally removed most of the rural setting to give a feeling of the vast expanse of the summer sky with as few distractions at ground level as possible. This shot is very much the inverse, the sky is not the main star, the lovely rural Irish landscape is, filled with natural beauty and lots and lost of history.
Bart.