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 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!
We focus on visible light in photography, such as the life and colors found in sandstone. The intricate hues reflect a vibrant essence of nature, for us to appreciate.
This episode is taking a bit of a departure from the various explorations, as they mostly have been somewhat outside our usual view of the world around us. I’d like to visit an approach to bringing our standard range of visible light into a bit of a different light. After all, photography is about writing with light (or writing the light).
Let’s take a look at today’s image…
Life Flowing in Rock
This is an image from my 2023 trip to Valley of Fire state park in Nevada. As we traversed part of White Dome loop, I noticed both the lines and coloring going through this sandstone. In order to get all the depth I needed in this image, I took a focus-bracketed set of images, as the individual sand particles are just about visible.
I was struck by the combination of colors and subtle hues that were in the rock, providing me with both a sense of life force within the rock and that even this sandstone formation was malleable. Life and its colors are all around us, so it’s key that we open all our senses to what Nature offers us!
Our spectrum focuses on the blue hour, the time before sunrise or after sunset when the sky appears blue due to sunlight scattering.
After a bit of a hiatus, we’ll take a slight detour from the infrared part of the light spectrum and visit the blue hour. Using this part of the time before sunrise or after sunset, during which the sun’s longer, reddish wavelengths are scattered to provide a blue tint to our sky. During the workshop, Loren Fisher guided us to great locations and did all the hard work of suggesting our camera settings and painting the location with just the right amount of light.
Here’s one of my captures…
Queechee Dam
Even though the shot was all about the blue hour, I like the look of this image in black and white. It lends the location a sense of mystery.
To reduce some of the mystery, here’s the color version…
Another infrared image from Tower Hill Botanic Garden. This gives me some thoughts about further exploration in processing.
Even though I did go to Tower Hill Botanic Garden this past weekend, I added no further source material for my Infrared collection. No need for despair, as I created plenty of material over the previous weekend!
So without further ado…
A Tree Ages
My reason for this tree image was simply to work through some further experimentation with processing. I’ll share that I’m not 100% done yet with this one. Some of the contrast between tree, sky and human-made objects comes across to some degree and has given me some ideas for additional shots to gather over the next couple of weeks…
