Tag: experimental

Monday’s Spectrum Exploration

This week, in our 720nm world, I present you with “Arch to Infinity.”

As I take the next step in the exploration of the infrared photography world, there is more fun to discover! In last week’s post in the “Monday’s Spectrum Exploration” series, I shared some of the experimentation with materials and their response. Those images provided me with a sense of the responsiveness of the 720nm filter. With a bit of that knowledge on board, I pushed the envelope a bit more.

You can see in this week’s attempt what the result might be…

Arch to Infinity

For this shot I put myself flat on the ground underneath this stone arch, positioning for the sunburst capture. Using the wide focal length of 24mm enabled me to use the trees for framing the image.

Using the ‘standard’ approach of a red/blue channel swap, I highlighted the bright, rich blue of the sky, seeming almost alien in its hue. There is a definite sense of this stone arch reaching out towards a faraway point, that is out of our view. Who knows, this could be a leftover impression of a wormhole from antiquity…

Silent Sunday

Against the forces of the wind…

Going through my back catalog…an image from 2008 for a photography class…

Solitude

This image is inspired by one of the early works by Piet Mondrian that I saw in a museum in Den Haag many years ago. It featured trees bent by the wind and immediately gave me a sense of the eternal battle with solitude.

I created the shot by building a stand from a paperclip and hot gluing it to the bent for. The paperclip was fed through a hole in the continuous paper and I lit it with a single 60 watt lightbulb to cast the specific shadow.

Experimental Photography

From rose to universe

The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge has the theme of Experimental. Now, I have been know to experiment a bit in my photography, so I thought I’d share one of the the images from those experiments.

A number of years back, I was looking for ways to expand the realm of my photographic endeavors, as I had a sense of restlessness with what I captured; there had to be something more, something that would uncover that which lay just over the horizon of our perception.  One constraint that I put upon that work is that it had to be done in-camera, rather than post-production.  I had already done quite a bit of HDR work, for which post-production is a key component, and this had to be different.

So, on an evening of sitting around the campfire, I started trying out different zoom blur techniques, which led to a significant amount of output over the following years.

One of these images that generates a lot of interest is this one…

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Rose Particle

This was from 2011, as I was wandering around the garden at my mother’s house, searching to uncover the energy that is locked up in Nature.  This tea rose pulled me in and provided just the right amount of a pose!

Have a wonderful day!