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What Is A Photo Tour?
What is a photo tour and is it different to a photography workshop? This is a question we get asked a lot. There is no real difference but simply, a tour is more focused on seeing the place with a photographic emphasis while a workshop is specifically designed to concentrate on one or more aspects of your photographic technique, equipment or composition. Both tour and workshop are interchangeable and there is a degree of overlap.
Because we tailor each tour to suit your needs, we choose the appropriate locations and times to maximise your time in Ireland and help you to improve your photography.
If you would like to know more about our photography workshops in Ireland please contact us here and join an Irish photographer for a day in your favourite part of Ireland.
Don't forget that we offer Gift Vouchers for Christmas and all year round for birthdays and other occasions. A photography gift voucher entitles the holder to the same benefits as a direct booking: one-to-one photography tuition, a choice of locations in Dublin, Wicklow and the rest of Ireland, morning or evening photography workshops, follow-on advice and critique on images. To buy a Panoramic Ireland Photography Gift Voucher for a friend, relation or even for yourself please follow this link or Contact Us.
Find out more about our Dublin Photo Tours here, for our Northern Ireland photo tours click here and Galway and rest of Ireland you can find out more here.
What makes Ireland so special? Perhaps it is the landscapes, the history, the people or a combination of all of these that bring 7 million visitors every year to this little island.
Dublin is the capital of Ireland and the chief city on the island, Belfast is the second largest, and the chief city of Northern Ireland. The island has two currencies and two governments but there no border controls between the north and south; indeed it is quite easy to drive from one side to the other without knowing it.
It is true, in Ireland it rains a bit (isn't that why it's so green?) but don't let that put you off because it doesn't rain as much as you think. With some good luck there will be fine weather during your visit. The best months to visit are April, May, June and September. The days are long, the weather is often perfect and it isn't high season. Is there any better place to be than driving along a country road somewhere in Ireland on a warm, sunny day?
Ireland makes a perfect location to improve your photography or to enhance your image collection. Contact us today to learn more about our bespoke tour options.
Panoramic Ireland (that's me) Meets Irish President Michael D. Higgins
Here I am (just so you know that I am actually a real person) meeting Irish President Michael D. Higgins at the Festival Interceltique du Lorient in France.
Image of the Month
January 2023
This month's mountain image comes from the sunlit uplands of Ireland, a frosty path leading up towards a triangle peak with the bright winter sun shining over the ridge with a starburst.
For 2023 take one of Panoramic Ireland's private photography tours in Ireland from Belfast to Cork to Dublin to Galway - perfect for avoiding the large crowds and finding scenic seascapes, landscapes and cityscapes to photograph. Bookable now for 2023 and beyond.
Find out more by going to the Contact page.
Seven Essential Places to Photograph in Ireland
- Dublin - home to Guinness, Croke Park and The Book of Kells; you can't miss Dublin, a city that has improved over the past 10 years.
- Wicklow - mountainous and empty yet less than an hour from Dublin, Wicklow is home to the most famous hermitage in Ireland at Glendalough.
- Belfast & the Antrim Coast - the land of myths and legends, saints and scholars, Northern Ireland has some of the finest landscape photography. The stunning landscapes are now easy for all to see, Game of Thrones has added to that appeal.
- Dingle - the furthest west that you can get in Ireland, and a peninsula that has as more pubs than you could ever visit. Visually stunning.
- The Burren - a unique geological landscape, The Burren is home to arctic, alpine and mediterranean plants.
- Connemara - rugged and wild, full of bogs, sea and sky as well as a few ponies of distinction.
- Donegal - the most northerly county in Ireland, the Atlantic coastline is second to none in Ireland with the sea cliffs of Slieve League and miles-long sandy beaches.
Have a look at the blog section of the site for more stories, events and information on the places mentioned here.
Enjoy the site, we hope you learn something and when you come to visit us here in Ireland/ Why not book a photography tour with us, learn something about the real Ireland and learn how to make better images.
LATEST POSTS FROM OUR BLOG
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A Path Through the Woods in Spring, Ireland
Written by Darren McLoughlinInternational travel photographer and Irishman in search of the best bits of Ireland. Leading photography tours and experiences in Ireland.
Contributor to New York Times / Sunday Times / Irish Times
Cancer survivor.
Ask me about Ireland or about photography in Ireland.
Written on Monday, 20 March 2023 18:54 in Guide Read more...
It's an exciting time here in Ireland, Saint Patrick's Day has just finished, the Irish rugby team won the Six Nations and remains at number one in the world.
It is also the equinox, so we now move into the six months of the year when daylight is longer than darkness.
And while there isn't much in the way of summer colour just yet, the bright and fresh green of spring is on the way.
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Watch More Sunsets than Netflix, Colourful Sunset Panorama and Street Art in Dublin
Written by Darren McLoughlin
International travel photographer and Irishman in search of the best bits of Ireland. Leading photography tours and experiences in Ireland.
Contributor to New York Times / Sunday Times / Irish Times
Cancer survivor.
Ask me about Ireland or about photography in Ireland.
Written on Wednesday, 01 March 2023 15:26 in Photo Tours
We're big fans of sunsets here at Panoramic Ireland, you'll find plenty of images of the evening golden hour throughout the site.
It seems that someone with artisitic skills and a spray can in Dublin is also a fan, after painting this sagely advice on a wall in the city centre of Ireland's capital city.
Watch More Sunsets Than Netflix! - Street Art in Dublin Join Panoramic Ireland to photograph more sunsets and get yourself away from too much Netflix, all you need is your camera.
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Three Bears' View aka Goldilocks's Rocks - Scenery in the Irish Mountains
Written by Darren McLoughlin
International travel photographer and Irishman in search of the best bits of Ireland. Leading photography tours and experiences in Ireland.
Contributor to New York Times / Sunday Times / Irish Times
Cancer survivor.
Ask me about Ireland or about photography in Ireland.
Written on Monday, 27 February 2023 14:33 in Guide Read more...
High in the Irish mountains, three rocks sit overlooking an empty mountain landscape of peaks, ridges and valleys offering a good spot for a break to take in the view.
Okay, Ireland has no real height when compared with many other countries, but still for this island it's a high point with majestic views.
Perfect, you could imagine, for the three bears from the famous folk story to stop here and have a picnic whilst enjoying the scenic view.
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Adobe Lightroom Classic - Group Images into a Stack - CTRL-G
Written by Darren McLoughlin
International travel photographer and Irishman in search of the best bits of Ireland. Leading photography tours and experiences in Ireland.
Contributor to New York Times / Sunday Times / Irish Times
Cancer survivor.
Ask me about Ireland or about photography in Ireland.
Written on Friday, 17 February 2023 21:57 in Photography, Photoshop and Post-processing Read more...
Sometimes when working with images in Adobe Lightroom Classic, it is preferable to group similar images together into a stack so that all of the images are on top of each other with one on top.
In this case, I have been working on images taken in an exposure bracket or maybe if you had a sequence for focus bracketing.
Here there are five images taken with different exposures to give a final image with a wider dynamic range, or HDR and after processing these to create the HDR image I don't need to see the five source images.
Usually when processing in this way it is possible to have Lightroom group the images into a stack automatically.
But on occasions, either when forgetting to do so, or as in my case Lightroom failed to create the stack automatically, it is possible to add images into a stack manually.
Here are the steps to group images into a stack in Lightroom with Grid view (images below):
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Select your images, here I have the five source images and one HDR image so six in total
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Right click on the selection
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In the context menu choose Stacking, then Group into Stack
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That's it, or you can use the CTRL-G shortcut after selecting images
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To expand the stack, click on the number badge at the top left
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Right click on the number badge to bring up a context menu that offers options to manage the stacks
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Dublin's Olympia Theatre - Planning Permission with Conditions
Written by Darren McLoughlin
International travel photographer and Irishman in search of the best bits of Ireland. Leading photography tours and experiences in Ireland.
Contributor to New York Times / Sunday Times / Irish Times
Cancer survivor.
Ask me about Ireland or about photography in Ireland.
Written on Saturday, 11 February 2023 20:42 in Guide Read more...
The Olympia Theatre needs little introduction to Dubliners having been in existence for 100 years this year, with its famous canopy standing over the footpath on Dame Street.
In 1879 it opened as Dan Lowrey's Star of Erin Music Hall on the site of Connell's Monster Saloon. Undergoing several name changes it was rebuilt and reopened as the Empire Palace Theatre in 1897.
Opening finally as The Olympia in 1923, a whole century of touring and local artists have happily performed at the venue.
Generations of Irish people have returned to the Olympia to see the most famous actors and musicians in the world performing at the venue including David Bowie, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hady, Noel Coward, Alec Guinness, Blur, Foo Fighters, Florence + The Machine, Hozier, Dua Lipa and REM to name a few.
