{"id":859,"date":"2008-06-15T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2014-08-07T20:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:10:15","slug":"photo-of-the-week-17-stars-over-taghadoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/06\/15\/photo-of-the-week-17-stars-over-taghadoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 17 &#8211; Stars Over Taghadoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shot this photo quite a few months and all but forgot about it. It sat un-processed and forgotten in a dark corner of my gallery gathering electronic dust until I stumbled across it yesterday. The raw image didn&#8217;t look too promising, the whole thing had a very nasty red colour cast and didn&#8217;t look at all appealing. Some fairly extreme twiddling with sliders in iPhoto managed to turn this ugly duckling into a beautiful swan! The moral of the story, don&#8217;t be too put off when your shots don&#8217;t look great straight out of the camera! To give you an idea of how much editing had to be done I&#8217;ve included a small version of the original below.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following this series you&#8217;ll have seen Taghadoe before, this is the same round tower you saw silhouetted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=712\">Photo of the Week 5 &#8211; Nightfall in Taghadoe<\/a>. It&#8217;s a real hidden gem located just a few miles outside Maynooth Village in Co. Kildare, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/2580021887\" target=\"_blank\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/starsovertaghadoe.jpg\" alt=\"Stars Over Taghadoe\" width=\"325\" height=\"464\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" \/><br \/>Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/starsovertaghadoeroundtower-original.jpg\" alt=\"The Unprocessed Origianl\" style=\"float:right;border-width:0px;margin:5px;\" width=\"194\" height=\"285\" \/>For those of you interested in such things here are some of the technical details of the shot:<\/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> 14.6 sec (using tripod)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 18mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> F3.5<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 800<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Manual<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure Compensation:<\/strong> -1.0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[tags]Photography, Maynooth, Ireland, Kildare, Taghadoe, Round Tower, astrophotography, stars, night[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shot this photo quite a few months and all but forgot about it. It sat un-processed and forgotten in a dark corner of my gallery gathering electronic dust until I stumbled across it yesterday. The raw image didn&#8217;t look too promising, the whole thing had a very nasty red colour cast and didn&#8217;t look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[88,521,28],"series":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-astrophotography","tag-church","tag-photo-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-dR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8116,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/8116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}