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Erik Wahl at the TED Full Spectrum Auditions, May 24, 2011, New York, NY. Credit: James Duncan Davidson
One more Fullspectrum Experiment:
I try to make the best of these days with the same subjects over and over again ... And I'm lucky I have a lot of things to do on my list: It's almost 2 years ago I got some rather strange IR-block filters.
Here I used the B+W #470. It's a blue-greenisch color, pretty dark. It's actually a technical filter, to be honest I didn't understand what exactly it was used for (maybe 40 years ago?), but I understand it blocks IR. On the Fullspectrum camera it's always easy to check this: If you see green more or less normally, IR is more or less blocked.
I needed to custom white balance there photos, again simply on the birches bark. A litte tweaking was necessary. What I get are very rich greens. Magenta comes bold, also, red is more subdued here, but it's not absent. I like the colors quite a bit, I tried to get away from a too extreme rendering, but still the cooler tones are somewhat dominant (or is it just me imagine that?)
I only used this one filter on a Minolta 70-210/4 (the manual focus variant of the famous beercan) and used it wide open (the filter needs a lot of light) and at it's minimum focus distance. Not too bad for an old zoom wide open!
Ainissa Ramirez at TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
B/W Landscape
Made with Fullspectrum Camera and a so called pop filter red (Hoya), probably from the 70ies or 80ies. Although this filter is red, obviously, it's not an IR filter. I don't have any specs. Pop filters were used to colorise to one single color on color-film. Not used like colored filters for B/W. Interestingly, this one does not show a too strong IR ("wood") effect, and also the sky is not getting almost black, but gets a middle tone. Overall contrast is high, though, but still it does not produce that IR look, but rather something B/W film like. It was the first try with this filter, obviously another abuse, In need to check out this more. Seems to be a way to get a quite natural looking B/W, or almost B/W image. Few more to come, I struggle with the processing of those a bit. If anyone has specifications for pop filters or knows more ... please let me know!
Tali Sharot at TED2012: Full Spectrum, February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Michael Tilson Thomas at TED2012: Full Spectrum, February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
John Hodgman at TED2012: Full Spectrum, February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
TED's own Shanna Carpenter and Roxanne Hai at the Monday night block party before TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: Ryan Lash
Thomas Dolby introduces the house band at TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
June Cohen and Michael Tilson Thomas at TED2012: Full Spectrum, February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
The Google Garage at TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: Robert Leslie
At center, TED's Deron Triff listens to Thaniya Keereepart during lunch at TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: Robert Leslie
Jack Choi at TED2012: Full Spectrum, February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
GROVE (a week of infrared photography at green-wood cemetery) - Composition Monday
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Social Spaces at TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: Robert Leslie
Tom Rielly at TED2012: Full Spectrum, February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Medical visualizer Virgil Wong. Portrait session at the TED Full Spectrum Auditions, May 24, 2011, New York, NY. Credit: James Duncan Davidson
Improv Everywhere performance at TED2012: Full Spectrum, February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Angie Miller at TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Kelly and Rives giving it up for the student ( middle) who did freestyle beatboxing.
TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Rafe Esquith and students at TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Jack Choi (center) demonstrates his Virtual Dissection Table during TED2012: Full Spectrum. February 27 - March 2, 2012. Long Beach, CA. Photo: Ryan Lash
Trees etc. / Fullspectrum Experiment:
I know, I should not post so many pictures at one time, this reduces the chance anyone looks at anything but the first. But ... well, I can't help it.
I carried the fullspectrum camera with me today, and stacked 3 filters on top of the Minolta 50-135/3.5 lens: A UV-IR Cut, a warming filter and an UltraContrast 0.5. This way I got RAWs with almost no blue, a lot of warm tones and muted greens. I did some digital post processing, but the basic „color grading“ was done while I took the photos, thus analog.
Possibly this is dumb artsy talk, but I find many of these have a certain „presence" that is hard to explain. The lens was used wide open, mostly.
Along this track that I walk so often right now there's little more than trees and what you see here, so I need to make something out of that. I think this little series showed me again, there is potential and birch trees are always the photographers best friends.