castles Archives - Page 3 of 11 - Ed O'Keeffe Photography

11 February 20126 May 2017

Edinburgh Castle at Night

One of the biggest problems of capturing Edinburgh Castle is that it is on the top of a hill with steep cliffs on three sides. Ordinarily in the day you have to be lucky with the light in order to capture detail in the cliff faces. Getting up a little too early (or so I thought) one morning the sky was still completely black to the naked eye. However on this 30 second long exposure the black sky turned pick and blue. I am not sure how or why. The camera wasn’t broken and this image has not been Photoshopped.

9 February 20126 May 2017

Edinburgh Castle Entrance at Night

After a long day of photography and an evening trying to get a decent photo of the Scottish Parliament building at dusk I decided to walk back up the Royal Mile to the Castle before heading back to the hotel. From the main entrance to Edinburgh Castle only this part is properly lit up (from the side, down on Princess Street it looks much better at night). So I zoomed in from a distance and captured the above photograph. It was extremely windy, to the point where I had to hold on to the tripod legs!

29 January 20126 May 2017

Warwick Castle

Warwick Castle was the last on my list of things I wanted to try to photograph on my recent weekend in Warwickshire. Sadly I got there just after sunset on the Sunday evening and really needed to be there at dawn in order to have the sun behind me lighting up the Castle. Knowing this I took my tripod to attempt an hHDR. I often interest detail in the shadows and highlights of a photograph in Lightroom but this was an HDR put together with the help of Photoshop. I don’t like it but wanted to share because one day I will go back early in the morning and capture the photograph I have in my mind of this Castle.

23 January 20126 May 2017

Castle through the Iron Gate

Getting close up and walking around the walls of Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire I found a number of unusual angles for my photographs. The above image is using the iron gated entrance to frame part of the castle in the background. Although initially just a quick grab shot, I decided I wanted to try and record both the iron gate in the foreground and the castle in the background as sharp as possible. Fortunately it was a very bright day so the small aperture wasn’t a problem.