Following on from my last post – Photography fun with lights.
I hope you enjoyed these two light painting posts!!
After last weeks post about the light painting fun we had out at Dun Laoghaire, I decided to go back nearly four months and pick out some of my light painting shots taken in Charleville Castle. This was an brilliant night had with all the boardsies that usually head down to the castle. Darren Carr brought along some amazing lights to play with, which you’ll see in some of the photos.
I have another 15 lightpainting photos from this set being posted up on Monday, so make sure to pop by then. Have you ever tried anything like this before? Leave a comment and a link below to some of your ‘light painting/paint with light‘ fun!!
Have a great weekend folks!!
Kyle
Hey guys and gals,
Just a quick note to let all you social media lovers that I’m now on Facebook.
I hope to add a few extra bits of information about how I shoot, organise, process and everything else to do with my photography. Feel free to add me on facebook.
Kyle
The old piano at Charleville Castle, County Offaly, Ireland
This is a bit of fun I had in photoshop after last weeks photoshoot in the forest. Two textures and lots of masking we have this lovely image.
It’s the first time I’ve tried doing anything like this and I’m happy with the results. A few people have said the eyes/lips are too prominent but this is how I wanted it. I was looking for a powerful stare from this ‘creature’. Below are the stages of processing:
If you’re wondering how I actually did all of this, you can download the file with all the layers intact and see how to do one of your very own. (the bottom group + ‘original’ layer are only there to show what I did in the early stages – this is why they’re turned off)
Download the amazing creature photoshop file here – 14.2mb
Last Monday Offshoot had a ‘paint with light’ night planned down by the sea front in Dun Laoghaire. It was a blast!
The fun Lucy Nuzum got out on this rock for me and stood still for a few minutes. Luckily she didn’t fall into the dea 
At the end of the night, the very last shot I wanted to get was a long exposure photo with one big wave frozen from a strobe/flash. Well, I sure got the shot… and the wave. This huge crazy wave came out of nowhere and completely covered me and the camera – I was soaked!!. It’s all good fun though, I’m always happy to go that one step further for a great shot
It’s a fun new sport we came up with a few weeks back. Low rivers, not high enough to kayak, why not put all your paddling gear on and go walk/swim/run in the river? Welp that’s what we did. It was great fun!
A nice pano shot of Jacksons just downstream
Give it a try the next time you’re bored, want to go kayaking but there’s no rain. A nice jump into jacksons is refreshing.
Watch out for those rocks though
This is the wonderful Camilla from last Fridays photoshoot in Glen of the downs.
We had her covered in moss & climbing trees, what a brilliant model!!
This is a lovely pano shot of the Annamoe, County Wicklow.
If you’re a paddler you might want to take a look at this (bigger version). I’ve run Jacksons so many times and only once had a fright with this one hole. On the day we swam over and got into that hole, it’s a good 3/4 foot deep and then it goes back into the rock another 2ft.
A fantastically fun day out at Glen of the down today!!
I can’t believe I’ve never seen/read about these amazing creatures before
More info about the shoot over on the súper Lucy’s Flickr