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.
This week’s image highlights the New Salem Academy Museum, established in 1795.
It’s great to have a sense of revival in this week’s posts, as I feel energized by it. In that vein, I’ll change my self-imposed constraints a little for the iPhone Friday series. From this post on, I will be posting only images that were recorded within the past week. This has the added benefit of reminding me to get out of the house and look around a bit more for something interesting. Simply because, all work and no play dull my senses!
Here’s a take from this past week…
New Salem Academy Museum
New Salem Academy was brought into existence on February 25, 1795, when Massachusetts governor Samuel Adams signed the legislation that created the academy. The Trustees of New Salem Academy have continuously managed the affairs of the Academy since then, which today focuses on the provision of scholarship opportunities for residents of New Salem and descendants of Academy attendees and staff.
Note that the museum is open by appointment only, so please reach out to plan your visit!
A return after a bit of a hiatus and a visit to a nearby historical Meetinghouse. Explorations in light and color feature.
Greetings and welcome to the revival blog post! I’ll post about what’s been keeping me rather busy in a separate post, so as not to bore those of you who’d rather see something new in Infrared fun!
As I’m enjoying a long weekend and the weather has been gorgeous, I opted for some exploration. In particular, there’s a well-hidden, old bridge that I was looking for and found. As this bridge is in an area where I captured a Meetinghouse (see post), I took a slight detour to visit that location as well.
Here’s a first look at the Meetinghouse in natural light…
1794 Meetinghouse
This was captured with my Fuji GFX 100s II medium format camera, and I treated it with an Adobe Camera Raw filter to bring an early sense of autumn into the image.
I also photographed the Meetinghouse in a rather different color…
1794 Meetinghouse in Blue/Pink
A rather different capture and processing, as I took this photo with my 720nm converted Canon EOS 5D MkII, and then gave it a quick channel swap and some adjustments to highlight pink trees!
The same image with a rather different treatment…
1794 Meetinghouse in Blue/Yellow
For this treatment, I went to a yellowish tone for the trees, which also allowed me to create a slightly more sinister feel to the overall image. I’ll admit that I enjoy this approach a bit!
A couple of quick news items. First of all, I have the privilege of having an invitation to present to the Assabet Valley Camera Club next May on the topic of Infrared photography. This will be a lot of fun, and a great impetus for me to add to my portfolio over the next months, as I prepare the detailed presentation. Secondly, I’m finally working on my new web-site, as I feel I have enough images processed over this past year to present a start of a portfolio. More announcements soon!
A bit of exploration of New Salem, which retains its 18th-century character. The 1794 Meetinghouse is featured in this post.
As I mentioned in the earlier post today, titled “Will Spring Appear Soon?“, the trip to Bear’s Den wasn’t optimal. It was definitely enjoyable and a lot of fun of doing some photography in cold, snowy, icy conditions. I actually mean that, as I do relish somewhat more challenging conditions. After getting back to the car and packing up, I decided to explore the center of New Salem.
New Salem still has all the character of an 18th century New England settlement…
1794 Meetinghouse
The building is the 1794 Meetinghouse, situated on South Main Street in New Salem. The meeting house is a town’s location where both religious and civic activities took place. After the original settlement of New Salem in 1737, the town had outgrown its first meeting house. The Congregational Society deemed the time was right for a larger structure and this one was started in 1794. Completion of the building was in 1795.
Over time renovations were made and its original purpose was no longer needed in 1953. New Salem had several other churches and services were no longer held for a long time. The 1794 Meetinghouse serves as an event space these days.
A visit to Bear’s Den Falls in New Salem, Massachusetts, seeking to capture its snowy beauty after recent snowfall.
As we’re getting to the tail end of Winter, I took a drive out to New Salem, Massachusetts. I had the goal to explore what Bear’s Den Falls looked like in the snow, as we had a good bit of snow over the past week, and the sun was out! I also took into account that we had some warmer days, and was hoping for a bit of volume.
This is what I found…
Bear’s Den in Winter
As you can see, the falls are still ice and snow covered, which reduces their effect in a photo. Also, there was still a lot of debris from the high winds that went through the treetops over the past week.
I will definitely want to return to find something closer to this…
Bear’s Den Summer
There will be more opportunities in the months ahead!
Regardless, it was a nice day to go for a drive and hike the ice and snow to see Bear’s Den. And in my explorations, I did find another photo opportunity.
