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JohnHoke

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NIKON D610

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Aperture 63/10 ISO 100 Shutter 1/160 Focal Length 50/1

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Jun, 2016

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People's Choice in celtic Photo Challenge

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Night shot below the Eiffel Tower with a Sigma 15mm fisheye lens. Editing was done using On1 Photo and Adobe Lightroom.

Black and White HDR Fisheye image of a staircase at the Louvre Museum

HDR Image of a highland cattle at Walter's Peak, Queenstown, New Zealand

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Vintage van parked in the castle district, Budapest HU

Monotone HDR image of Westminster Abbey shot at 17mm on a d610 with a Sigma 12-24mm wide angle.

Line of trees growing out of the water's edge at Lake Wakatipu, Glenorchy, New Zealand

Image taken during Mass at Saint Stephen's Basilica, Budapest, Hungary.
Vertical panorama stitched in lightroom, post processing work done using

a long exposure image of the Flatiron Building in New York CIty - on 23rd Street and Fifth Ave.

This was a single 5 second exposure shot in RAW and

Where the trolls live - under the Covered Bridges in Pennsylvania

My border collie Roxy would be in the snow all the time if she could ...

Love locks on the Pont de l'Alma bridge with the Eiffel Tower in the background

Panorama of one of the fields at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania - outside Philadelphia

Panorama of Holyrood Palace from a recent trip to Edinburgh created from multiple 3 exposure HDR images in AuroraHDR and stitched together in Lightro

Behind The Lens

Location

I took this photo as a 'throw away' while visiting the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland. I am an amateur photographer and take my camera everywhere I can. I was setting my camera for a different shot and captured this completely by accident, and it's probably my favorite from that day trip.

Time

This was probably about 2pm local time, we were on a day bus tour out of Dublin down to Cork, with stops at this location and Castle Blarney. there were scores of people mulling around in the sun, all the while I was trying to get a panorama shot worked out. This was a happy accident while fiddling around with a couple menus.

Lighting

This is probably the worst time of day to take landscape shots, but I got lucky with this one, as it is so tight in on the Cross it seems to work.

Equipment

This was shot with a Nikon D610 and a Tamron 23-300mm f/3.5-6.3 lens and a tripod. No flash was used, nor any other equipment.

Inspiration

I wish I could say there was a lot of thought put into composition, lighting, angles, or anything at all for that matter. Sometimes while setting things up for one shot you accidentally take an image... While importing things into Lightroom, I saw this and loved the way the moss, stone and grass all played together. Sometimes photos just happen - this is one of them.

Editing

I typically import my images into Lightroom, cull through those that were less successful and clean up the rest both in Lightroom and On1 Photo. This was no different. I added a bit of vignetting to the photo, some dynamic contrast and detail to make the grass pop more and to bring out the stonework.

In my camera bag

I try to travel light - I always have my Nikon D610 with my Tamron 28-300 walk about lens. If I am traveling in cities I will also take a Sigma 12-24 DGII wide angle and 15mm Fisheye with me as well. Outside of that, I will have lens cleaners, external flash and a carbonfiber tripod. I don't like schlepping so much gear I need a sherpa to travel with me, and I've found this meets most of my needs.

Feedback

Seriously, don't try so hard. Take photos, enjoy yourself, take more photos and be your own worst critic. Ruthlessly delete those that dont work - but only after understanding why it didn't work so you can improve next time. The beauty is that memory space is free, unlike my first film cameras, mistakes cost nothing but ego

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