River bend (360° 720nm IR)

Alright, that one was a bit difficult to expose but I think I made the best of it. I tried a few things but nothing was really adding much to the look I was going for, so the development is quite minimal (post the standard IR moves). However, it still took a good while, cause it's freakin' huge and my computer was struggling a lot, but came out on top eventually.

I like the tansition from the dark foreground to the light at the top, the trees on one side of the river were still hit by sunlight, in the evening. And the "density" of the trees only comes with a more severe panoramic approach, so I like how the river bed creates kind of a spacious tunnel through it.

I dig the IR response of the water too, but I presume, the longer shutter speed here has something to do with it as well. By the way, this is another longer section of the same stream where water gets diverted away into a small power plant, so it's just chugging along here. In spring or after heavy rainfall, it's a different story.

 

 

Technically this is a 360° IR panorama, consisting of 42 individual photos, just trimmed a little resulting in a mercator projection with 27236 x 15391px, ~419,2MP. So with 8sec exposures each, total recording time is about 5 and a half minutes without adjustments and test shots.

 

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, 8sec

(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)

tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)

Done