awfulsteelmelon
Shadow pond (720nm HDR infrared)
Okay, so this took a while and was quite a process, and I believe it is the first exposure bracketed IR panorama I ever did. 😳
It also showcases a false-color scheme that rarely works (for me) and is in a way a hybrid between the 'classic winter landscape' - white foliage / blue sky and my other goto favorite, magenta based foliage / dark grey or black sky.
Going monochrome and via what kind of conversion and source is a different beast altogether.
Backstory: I think checking the gear, taking some initial shots or do a warm-up panorama is very valuable, and it often involves some scouting for me.
That's how I found this pond, in an area I otherwise know very well, but it's right in the bend of a river that flows next to it and I usually don't just wade through hip-deep water. So I found it at noon, saw the potential, but the light was not suitable. I returned a couple of days later in the afternoon and it looked great, so I took the first panorama on a small old stay that's there. Home on the computer I soon realized that the dynamic range on the IR spectrum in these conditions is truely huge, so I will probably have to bracket to not lose either highlights or shadows. 🤔
And that's what I did the day after, only to realize (by looking at the reflections on the back display of the camera body) that the stay is extremely shaky, and that flipping up the mirror or even breathing causes the whole thing to wobble. So I had to discard the result of this attempt as well after I looked at it.
I returned a last time a bit earler in the afternoon and really took my time, letting everything calm down before every exposure (and there was some breath holding involved as well, not going to lie) and it finally worked out, also due to the fact that there was almost no wind too, lucky me.
Overall I'm quite pleased with the result, so I think it was worth the effort. 😊 What do you think?
Technically, the source of this is a 360° IR panorama with a 3 row layout, consisting of 84 individual photos and a trimmed mercator projection yielded 27227 x 15504px, ~422,1MP, which I did a semi-panoramic crop on with still 20253 x 13068px, ~264,7MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, bracketed (2)
3sec (-1.7 EV), 0,8sec (+0.3 EV)
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)
Shadow pond (720nm HDR infrared)
Okay, so this took a while and was quite a process, and I believe it is the first exposure bracketed IR panorama I ever did. 😳
It also showcases a false-color scheme that rarely works (for me) and is in a way a hybrid between the 'classic winter landscape' - white foliage / blue sky and my other goto favorite, magenta based foliage / dark grey or black sky.
Going monochrome and via what kind of conversion and source is a different beast altogether.
Backstory: I think checking the gear, taking some initial shots or do a warm-up panorama is very valuable, and it often involves some scouting for me.
That's how I found this pond, in an area I otherwise know very well, but it's right in the bend of a river that flows next to it and I usually don't just wade through hip-deep water. So I found it at noon, saw the potential, but the light was not suitable. I returned a couple of days later in the afternoon and it looked great, so I took the first panorama on a small old stay that's there. Home on the computer I soon realized that the dynamic range on the IR spectrum in these conditions is truely huge, so I will probably have to bracket to not lose either highlights or shadows. 🤔
And that's what I did the day after, only to realize (by looking at the reflections on the back display of the camera body) that the stay is extremely shaky, and that flipping up the mirror or even breathing causes the whole thing to wobble. So I had to discard the result of this attempt as well after I looked at it.
I returned a last time a bit earler in the afternoon and really took my time, letting everything calm down before every exposure (and there was some breath holding involved as well, not going to lie) and it finally worked out, also due to the fact that there was almost no wind too, lucky me.
Overall I'm quite pleased with the result, so I think it was worth the effort. 😊 What do you think?
Technically, the source of this is a 360° IR panorama with a 3 row layout, consisting of 84 individual photos and a trimmed mercator projection yielded 27227 x 15504px, ~422,1MP, which I did a semi-panoramic crop on with still 20253 x 13068px, ~264,7MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, bracketed (2)
3sec (-1.7 EV), 0,8sec (+0.3 EV)
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)