http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog A regularly-updated blog of a photographer in Dublin, Ireland Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/08/14/grand-canal-dock/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/08/14/grand-canal-dock/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:16:32 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=6719 Every now and then in Dublin Camera Club – usually in the quieter summer season – the weekly Tuesday meeting moves away from the club premises in the form of an outing to somewhere around the city.  A few years ago we visited the War Memorial Gardens for instance.  Last Tuesday a small group of [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/08/14/grand-canal-dock/feed/ 0 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/06/30/right-place-right-time/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/06/30/right-place-right-time/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:33:16 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=5889 I’ve been in Dublin Airport four times in the last 5 weeks, but my feet have not left Irish soil on any of those occasions.  Rather less exciting than flying out to some exotic destination, I found myself there to rent (and return) a car on two different weekends.  Most recently, last Thursday evening, I [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/06/30/right-place-right-time/feed/ 0 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/06/13/hustle-and-bustle/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/06/13/hustle-and-bustle/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:07:46 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=5806 What do you do on a rainy Sunday afternoon in South Dublin?  Yesterday it seemed the answer was: Go to Dundrum.  The place was busy.  So busy that finding a parking space took a while.  And I’m sure everyone else was thinking the same thing that I was thinking: this was probably a bad idea. [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/06/13/hustle-and-bustle/feed/ 0 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/05/17/the-fuji-x100-and-me/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/05/17/the-fuji-x100-and-me/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 10:18:25 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=5631 It’s something of a tradition now for me to take a new camera to St. Stephen’s Green shopping centre for a test shot.  Pretty much this test shot above in fact.  My Nikon D300 was first tried out there, and the D700 paid an early visit too.  Yesterday, on my way home, and for old [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/05/17/the-fuji-x100-and-me/feed/ 1 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/01/19/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/01/19/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:13:48 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=5042 I’m long past the point of only blogging photographs that I’m very proud of, or photographs that I think work really well.  Even though, as I discovered last night at the camera club, photos I think work don’t necessarily work for other people – this month’s league judging didn’t go so well for me, but [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2011/01/19/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed/feed/ 1 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/21/iphotography-by-night/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/21/iphotography-by-night/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:55:30 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=4607 Staying on the “iPhotography” theme for one more day, if you’ll allow me, one other aspect of its camera that I’ve recently put to the test – on top of its new HDR mode and the wonderfully retro Hipstamatic app – is its night-time performance.  There are two aspects to how the camera performs at [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/21/iphotography-by-night/feed/ 1 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/18/unprocessed-st-peters-basilica/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/18/unprocessed-st-peters-basilica/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:54:06 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=4572 Last Wednesday evening, for the first time, I gave a lecture as part of the Photography for Beginners course at Dublin Camera Club.  My topic was “The Rules of Composition” – that should really be rules with a small ‘r’, as with composition you’re really talking about ideas, suggestions and guidelines – and the lecture, [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/18/unprocessed-st-peters-basilica/feed/ 0 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/09/st-peters-square/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/09/st-peters-square/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:26:11 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=4518 A day later than planned (a longer than planned visit to Oktoberfest at the IFSC is partially to blame), today’s post includes the largest ever image I’ve put on the blog to date.  It is a little shy of 100 Megapixels, takes in a 300 degree sweep and is made up of 16 high resolution [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/09/st-peters-square/feed/ 2 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/07/when-in-rome/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/07/when-in-rome/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:32:32 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=4512 It doesn’t feel like two years since I was in Rome, especially when I realize that I’ve only ever post-processed a handful of the hundreds of photographs I took over the weekend I spent there.  Hundreds of photographs, because it’s a city with things to photograph everywhere you look.  The most famous, and most photographed, [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/07/when-in-rome/feed/ 0 http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/02/on-judging-and-liking/ http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/02/on-judging-and-liking/#comments Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:50:13 +0000 Ronan Palliser http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/?p=4472 This isn’t the sharpest photograph I’ve ever taken, but then again it was one of my quicker captures and was taken on an iPhone.  The main reason though that I’m happy to lower my threshold of technical correctness in deciding whether or not to post this one is because it’s an image that I like.  [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/10/02/on-judging-and-liking/feed/ 3