http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog A daily photoblog of a photographer in Dublin, Ireland Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m not a good cook. In fact I’m not a cook, full stop. So the creation above is not mine – it came from a box in the freezer. And because I’m currently putting the Yongnuo YN-560 flash through its paces, in the 15 minutes it took to cook this pizza I got a notion [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/09/06/pizza-for-one/ “What are you doing?” “Taking a photograph”. “What?” “I’m taking a photograph of the inside of the washing machine”.  ”You’re strange!” So went a brief exchange with Aoife this evening as I did indeed spend 5 minutes in the utility room working towards capturing the image above.  Quite why is something even I can’t explain, [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/09/05/interior-design/ Having realized that today’s scheduled post failed to go live, I’m bumping it in favour of this sneaky lunchtime post, which is about as close to live-blogging as it gets around here.  Lunchtime today took me to the restaurant in St. Stephen’s Green shopping for a quick meeting, and en route back to the office, [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/09/02/summer-in-dublin/ About three weeks ago I ordered a new flash from ebay – a new $85 dollar flash, that is.  It – a Yongnuo YN-560 – arrived yesterday, and with VAT and a handling charge courtesy of the Revenue Commisioners and An Post, it ended up costing just shy of €85.  That’s exceptionally cheap for a [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/09/01/the-self-lighting-e85-flash/ It’s back to school time this week for many, as school gates that have been shut for the last couple of months re-open and a new wave of pupils are welcomed in as old pupils return.  The weekend before last I was chatting to one of our neighbours who told me that it was 10 [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/08/31/back-to-school/ In Saturday’s post about Lucky Dip I mentioned a game that I had devised last year to offset the printing, mounting, bagging and exhibiting costs of the People’s Photography exhibition.  That game was Photo Bingo and after its success last year I’ve decided to run it again.  Read on to find out a bit more [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/08/30/photo-bingo-2010/ It says something about People’s Photography that I didn’t even take the book I had brought with me (in the expectation of periods of boredom) out of my bag – and it’s a good book at that (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).  Nor did I take a any pictures with the camera I had [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/08/29/available-fill-light/ After last year’s People’s Photography exhibition I had almost all of the photographs I had printed and mounted for the exhibition still in my possession, and so I devised a little game to help me offload them, and offset my costs in preparing the 30-odd photos that I had put together for the two days [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/08/28/a-simple-idea/ I’ve been having a busy week preparing for what is likely to be an equally busy (but enjoyable) weekend as a participant in People’s Photography 2010.  If you are in the vicinity of Dublin and have any chance at all to pay a visit to the railings around St. Stephen’s Green this Saturday or Sunday, [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/08/27/preparing-for-peoples-photography/ I received an email yesterday regarding the IPF National Audio Visual (AV) Championships, which are taking place in the middle of October, and it set me thinking.  There were two reasons why it did.  One is that the championships are being held in Clondalkin, so not a million miles from home.  The second is that [...]]]> http://www.ronanpalliser.ie/blog/2010/08/26/to-av-or-not-to-av/