I’m excited to share this image from my IR-modified camera; it’s great to see how it affects B&W images!
As I’m wrapping up a busy weekend, balancing preparing for a work trip, my new web-site and getting images ready for this week’s posts, I’m happy to have this next image for this week’s post. It’s another shot from just over a week ago, and was taken with my 720nm modified camera.
Let’s take a look at what’s ready…
New Salem Academy Museum
I find that when shooting in a different part of the light spectrum, and processing for it, there is opportunity for almost super-real black and white. This one came out for that, as sky and clouds were captured just different enough to get a rather enjoyable end result by going monochrome.
Shot with my converted Canon EOS 5D Mk II with a 720nm filtered sensor.
A moment from attending a Night Photography workshop in Vermont with Loren Fisher.
My apologies for the intermittent posting over the past week or so. Currently, I’m attending a Night Photography workshop in Vermont taught by the wonderful Loren Fisher. I’m very much enjoying this, but it did require me to get a week’s worth of work completed before I took time off starting Tuesday.
While iPhone photography is not the medium of choice for capturing lightpainting or great Milky Way shots, here’s a quick snap to tease…
Rusty Truck
I took this shot as I was capturing a 30 second exposure with my Canon R5 (I will share from those shots later). As Loren was painting the light on this truck, this shot worked out pretty well and I like the sense of vintage that black and white presents here.
Much more to come later…some of the shots came out pretty well.
My first foray with my Canon EOS 5D MkIII camera after its conversion with a 720nm infrared filter.
It’s been a while since the last post on this topic, so I’m making a gentle re-entry… This time I had my Canon EOS 5D MkIII converted to use a 720nm infrared filter, expanding the range of options that I have in my spectrum exploration. Trees have been pretty bare thus far, so I only took my first shots with this camera during the past weekend. I kept it pretty simple, as I just took a snap of some of the trees in our yard.
Here’s a view with this approach…
Springtime Returns
When I started processing this image, I came to the realization that I didn’t have a set of presets for the Canon EOS 5D MkIII. A quick check on Tonee Gee’s CLiR website confirmed that the presets are available with the current course. No panic, as the course comes with free updates! Tonee directed me to Kolari , as they provide the updates. A message to Kolari confirmed that they were in the process of updating to the most recent version.
Of course, being impatient I sent a note on Saturday asking when the new version might be available. Within 60 seconds I received a response that the new course is available for download! I rejoiced and started the (rather large) download.
That enabled me to use the really straightforward process of using a preset with Adobe Camera Raw, and the above image is the first one! I went for the black & white, as I do really like the look that it produced.
Time for more exploration during next weekend (hoping for nicer weather).
In closing, a great big thank you to Tonee Gee and Kolari for being incredibly responsive to my emails. Also, a second thank you to Kolari for the amazing job they did converting my Canon EOS 5D MkIII. They took the extra step of taking the camera through a full set of tests before doing the conversion and found an issue with the sensor. Kolari reached out to me with a detailed image and explanation of what they found and their suggestion to replace the sensor. As, they took care of the replacement, I can say that I’m really pleased with the results!
Part of my photographic explorations from the last year were in the area of Infrared photography. After some initial playing around, I bit the proverbial bullet and had my Canon EOS 5D MkII converted to filter at 590 nm (5900 Angstrom), which left me plenty of options on how I want to process the image.
Here’s one of the shots with this camera…
Red Brick Road
Seeing this beautiful red brick walkway in front of me, I couldn’t help but take this shot. As I know what the trees would do in IR, this lent itself for a B&W image that I still enjoy.
Valley of Fire State Park definitely merits a return journey at some point in the future, as there are so many more vistas to capture!
For today’s monochrome image, I’m going for a thoroughly modern approach…
Sunrise on Striped Rocks
These glorious rocks were just getting lit up by the sun in our backs, as the tips of the buttes in the foreground are just getting a bit of light, while in the background light is bathing those formations already.
To explain the modern approach of this image. This is a focus stacked set of 5 images to get the greater depth of field and overall sharpness. There was a bit of processing to get them together and properly adjusted. There’s one more aspect to account for; the sky was a lovely, bland shade of blue, so with the help of Luminar AI, I created something a bit more interesting.
I’ll share the color version of this image later this week, so you can compare notes!
Photographing in Valley of Fire State Park over the past week gave me a sense of connection to all those well-known landscape images from photographers in the early part of the 20th century. While definitely not comparing my work with theirs, I did draw some inspiration from them for this week’s monochrome image.
Pancakes in Fire Wave
The Fire Wave trail leads to an amazing area of multi-colored red and white formations. Right next to the ‘bacon strips’ formation, I found this lovely view against a cloudy sky; it reminded me of a stack of pancakes that would go well with the bacon just over to the right of this image.
This image was captured using a Canon EOS R5 and Canon RF 14-35mm F4/L IS USM lens; as I shot at 14mm focal length, I used f/8 for an aperture at 400 ISO. This was a series of 3 shots to generate the HDR using Aurora HDR; B&W conversion was done in Photoshop.
Last week’s entry was all about highlighting structure, as only Nature can create. This week’s image is all about what humans create…
Royal Albert Dock Waterfront
This image is from my 2019 visit to the wonderful city of Liverpool, England. When I get a chance, I enjoy watching my favorite premier league team play at Anfield Road. A long weekend in this great city never disappoints, as there are some rather fine restaurants in this area!
This image was captured using an iPhone 11 Pro Max and the Neuralcam app. This app is great fro taking a night HDR shot; it just takes a steady hand (or a railing to anchor one’s hand).
Just for fun, something light for Mondays: let’s go to black and white! There’s always something captivating about reducing an image to its basic components and stick to the variety of black and white tones that we can express in it.
Here’s a recent one that kind of stood out to me…
B&W Leaf under Red Light
The fun part of shooting this is that it was lit up with a red spotlight, which provided rather interesting contrast on a green leaf. The resultant structure really pops and produces a pleasing effect.
