{"id":1970,"date":"2011-04-12T22:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T22:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2014-08-07T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:16:46","slug":"photo-of-the-week-153-154-summer-in-rathcoffey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2011\/04\/12\/photo-of-the-week-153-154-summer-in-rathcoffey\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 164 &#038; 165 &#8211; Summer in Rathcoffey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I missed a week, but I didn&#8217;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 &#8211; very related in fact, being two different renderings of the same picture!<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s starting point before using the channel mixer in Aperture to convert it to a nice contrasty black and white shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_4982_tonemapped2_TopazAdjust.jpg\" alt=\"Rathcoffey in Summer\" width=\"490\" height=\"358\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4648934688\/in\/set-72157604207472927\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4648934688\/sizes\/o\/in\/set-72157604207472927\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/800 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 18mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> <em>f<\/em>\/8<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processing:<\/strong> 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&#8217;s built-in Dodge &#038; Burn plugin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_4982_tonemapped2_TopazAdjust_BW.jpg\" alt=\"Summer in Rathcoffey\" width=\"490\" height=\"358\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4648934890\/in\/set-72157604207472927\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4648934890\/sizes\/o\/in\/set-72157604207472927\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/800 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 18mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> <em>f<\/em>\/8<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processing:<\/strong> 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&#8217;s built-in Dodge &#038; Burn plugin before using Aperture&#8217;s Channel Mixer brick to convert the image to monochrome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I missed a week, but I didn&#8217;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 &#8211; very related in fact, being two different renderings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[518,31,35,155,28,96],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-castle","tag-ireland","tag-kildare","tag-landscape","tag-photo-of-the-week","tag-summer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-vM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8027,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}