Ronan Palliser's Photoblog

Stony Lough Eske

Ronan Palliser — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:57:18 +0000

The thing I find most challenging about landscape photography is that there is very little you can do about bad light. For portraiture, weddings and studio photography you can massage bad ambient light by adding light of your own creation, or even kill it and replace it entirely with artificial light. For landscape photography you’re [...]

Yachts in Galway Bay

Ronan Palliser — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:19:22 +0000

I received a text message from my Dad last night which read “I feel a yacht coming up on your blog”. I had to laugh, because he was spot on. Yesterday, having posted an image from Lough Eske, I promised to post another “in a couple of days time” and the reason that I left [...]

Lough Eske

Ronan Palliser — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:41:08 +0000

I’m going to take a break from Eva & Jonathan’s wedding photos today, partly because I want to keep things diverse here, and partly because the slideshow of photos from the day is doing the rounds amongst the bride and groom’s friends and family today, after they themselves had a chance to view it last [...]

Tying the dress

Ronan Palliser — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:15:37 +0000

I mentioned last week that I’m not naturally a black & white photographer – I tend to see things, photographically I mean, in colour. Give me a colour and a monochrome version of the same photograph and I will usually favour the colour version. When I shoot a wedding however, I do try to provide [...]

Just married

Ronan Palliser — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:50:09 +0000

I had the pleasure (and honour) of photographing the wedding of two friends – Eva and Jonathan – in beautiful Donegal last Friday, and not only was it a great day because of the wedding, but the skies were clear, the sun came out and Donegal itself looked almost as fantastic as the bride and [...]

Flash-lit Friday: Birthday cake

Ronan Palliser — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:45 +0000

If you visited here yesterday, or have been playing really close attention, you’ll know that my blog is celebrating its first birthday today, and what better way to celebrate than with cake? In this case, a cup cake. Just the one, but then the blog is just a toddler. And if you’re going to [...]

A year of blogging

Ronan Palliser — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:45:20 +0000

Tomorrow is a big day for the blog – it will be 1 year old. It doesn’t feel like a year since I started blogging, and you’ll hopefully be glad to hear that I have no plans to stop any time soon. I thought today, on the last day of my first year as a [...]

Opening the show

Ronan Palliser — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:52:50 +0000

A photographer will, I believe, naturally develop a style of photography over time that tends to reappear in most or all of his or her images. The ideal scenario is that the photographer becomes known for their style and that someone can look at an image and identify the photographer from it. In reality that [...]

Passing the ball

Ronan Palliser — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:38:10 +0000

Post-processing can be a necessary evil for photographers, and I’m so far behind in mine lately that I have three full shoots sitting on the laptop waiting to be edited – one of them since last summer. I need to constantly prioritize what gets looked at next, and inevitably it’s the family-related photos that are [...]

Suburban light trails

Ronan Palliser — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:38:29 +0000

I couldn’t decide between two images to post today, so for one day only I’m posting both. It’s not that either is a particularly strong image, but both are similar in style and if I was to write about one and post the other in the future I’d be stuck for things to say. Taken [...]