Ronan Palliser Photography

The importance of a photograph

Ronan Palliser — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:36:40 +0000

How many times have you said to yourself “oh I should have brought a camera”, or maybe “I should really take a photo of this”? My advice – bring the camera, and take the photo. Whatever it is, and however bad it is. The camera can just be your phone, which probably means you have [...]

B is for… Background

Ronan Palliser — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:27:28 +0000

Over the course of this A to Z series, I hope to introduce beginner photographers to maybe four concepts that they can use to improve the standard of their photography practically over night. The first of those comes in this, part 2 of 26, as we hit the letter B, and share a visual conversation [...]

Termonfeckin beach

Ronan Palliser — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:21:24 +0000

I can barely remember the last time I got to take my camera out to capture a landscape photograph, so when I found myself passing close to Termonfeckin beach in Louth the other day, and with all of about five minutes to spare, I decided to take a short diversion off the motorway to go [...]

Roger and the giant pear

Ronan Palliser — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:38:27 +0000

My favourite maths teacher in secondary school introduced me to the concept of a mnemonic. For those of you who don’t know, a mnemonic is basically where you use an easy-to-remember word or phrase as a prompt for something harder to remember. I think one of Mr. O’Brien’s ones was “Soh Cah Toa”. (Can you [...]

Isn’t it ironic?

Ronan Palliser — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:10:00 +0000

The video above is one you might have seen already in the last couple of days, because it’s doing the rounds on the web. But if you haven’t it’s worth 4 minutes of your time, because in the week when Kodak filed for bankruptcy, this forward-looking video from 2006, which, in an amusing way, predicts [...]

A is for… Aperture

Ronan Palliser — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:30:09 +0000

In the beginning was A, and the A was for Aperture. And as starting points go for a series all about photography, it’s not a bad one. When we take photographs, whether we are advanced photographers or newbies, we usually want our images to be well exposed, and to be acceptably in focus in the [...]

Oh what a beautiful morning

Ronan Palliser — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:39:20 +0000

It’s a while since I’ve posted an iPhone shot, and how I wished I had brought one of my ‘proper’ cameras with me this morning as I walked to the Luas (from where I am posting this). Even more than that, how I wished I was somewhere like Sandymount or Ringsend as the sun rose [...]

Introducing an A to Z of Photography

Ronan Palliser — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:12:51 +0000

The new year is often an excuse to begin a medium- or long-term project of some sort. This isn’t unique to photographers, of course, but it’s not rare to hear of a fellow photographer starting a personal photography-based project at this time of year. Common ones include: The 365 – take one photograph a day [...]

Lawlor family portrait

Ronan Palliser — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:00:41 +0000

In December I travelled to Wicklow to photograph three generations of the Lawlor family in a beautiful house just outside Wicklow town. The photoshoot was a present from siblings Susan, Alan and Conor to their parents to mark their 40th anniversary, and all we needed to proceed with it was a date when everyone would [...]

Staff portraits in the office

Ronan Palliser — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:00:10 +0000

Last summer I had two photographic projects which I wrote about but couldn’t really share photos from. One was the Dublin Simon project which made it to print at the very end of the year. The second was a series of staff portraits which I ended up shooting in two pretty short sessions in the [...]