awfulsteelmelon
Spring weather (infrared)
Alright, so this happend in early April, snow had melted away already, but the day after that, a whole boatload of snow came down, I know that cause I planted some yew trees and wasn't really sure what I was shoveling, earth or snow (the ground of course isn't frozen anymore at this time of the year)?!
Anyway, I feel this is one of those where it looks like as if the air has been sucked away, or something. I don't know, it's so clear and three-dimansional, like a vacuum.
Am I stupid and the only one seeing this? Sure my fellow IR-peeps must know what I mean?
★ Also, as a note on the side: This is from last year, I developed it back then but couldn't help but redo it now again. I don't want to sound hybristic, but there is a huge difference! So it seems that all the small refinements, and tweaks 'n hacks that evolve over time, by just doing it, are really paying off in terms of the final outcome! I'm much more satisfied with what I can do now, than a year ago.
Which is both, good and fun in itself, but also, and that is perhaps what I want to get across here, significant improvements can and do happen, even if you use the same old gear. I'm still using my old shit, my beginner setup!
So if your IR photos look like a blue mess, with a nasty monotonic blue color cast everywhere after the channel swap, don't just leave it at that. My 720nm photos certainly looked like that, and not only in the beginning!
But I see quite a few of these on Flickr. Sure, tastes differ, I'm not saying your images should look like mine, no!, but that can't be satisfying, can it? Just keep playing around with it, and things will invariably evolve in a direction you would like to see.. ❤
Technically this a standard-ish focal length singlerow IR panorama consisting of 6 shots in portrait orientation, trimmed and cropped to 14039 x 4260px, 59,8MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Minolta MD ROKKOR 28mm f/2.8 prime
Fotodiox Pro MD - Nik adapter
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 28mm, f/8, 0,8sec
(thus 42mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, no pano head, remote (ML-L3)
Spring weather (infrared)
Alright, so this happend in early April, snow had melted away already, but the day after that, a whole boatload of snow came down, I know that cause I planted some yew trees and wasn't really sure what I was shoveling, earth or snow (the ground of course isn't frozen anymore at this time of the year)?!
Anyway, I feel this is one of those where it looks like as if the air has been sucked away, or something. I don't know, it's so clear and three-dimansional, like a vacuum.
Am I stupid and the only one seeing this? Sure my fellow IR-peeps must know what I mean?
★ Also, as a note on the side: This is from last year, I developed it back then but couldn't help but redo it now again. I don't want to sound hybristic, but there is a huge difference! So it seems that all the small refinements, and tweaks 'n hacks that evolve over time, by just doing it, are really paying off in terms of the final outcome! I'm much more satisfied with what I can do now, than a year ago.
Which is both, good and fun in itself, but also, and that is perhaps what I want to get across here, significant improvements can and do happen, even if you use the same old gear. I'm still using my old shit, my beginner setup!
So if your IR photos look like a blue mess, with a nasty monotonic blue color cast everywhere after the channel swap, don't just leave it at that. My 720nm photos certainly looked like that, and not only in the beginning!
But I see quite a few of these on Flickr. Sure, tastes differ, I'm not saying your images should look like mine, no!, but that can't be satisfying, can it? Just keep playing around with it, and things will invariably evolve in a direction you would like to see.. ❤
Technically this a standard-ish focal length singlerow IR panorama consisting of 6 shots in portrait orientation, trimmed and cropped to 14039 x 4260px, 59,8MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Minolta MD ROKKOR 28mm f/2.8 prime
Fotodiox Pro MD - Nik adapter
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 28mm, f/8, 0,8sec
(thus 42mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, no pano head, remote (ML-L3)