super IR shooting. I really like the wide angle landscape; very dramatic.
on what S.F. beach were you when you shot the golden gate. I just shot it yesterday from the Marin side, but you have a much better foreground.
regards, tom
The second shot was taken from the north end of Baker Beach. Not the part accessible from the parking lot, but just to the north on Lincoln Blvd. there are some parking spaces and a trailhead that leads past an old artillery battery and eventually down to the beach, and further north on Lincoln Blvd. there is a dirt turnout where another trailhead starts in the woods and meets the same trail near the bottom of the hill. Once on the beach, the best views start about 1/4 of mile further north during the late afternoon and when the tide is low (high tides make getting across the rocks more difficult and limit the available angles).
I sent the camera to MaxMax for conversion, and they did an excellent job. The conversion is the most extreme one -- 830nm, which makes for longer exposure times (especially at ISO 100), but provides lots of contrast with the right lens. All my landscape shots are done with MLU, and it is even more critical with my D200 IR.
Love these! great composition in both. just curious, the clouds have a wonderful softness in the first one and the edge of the surf has it as well. is the result of using slow speeds with your IR camera (per your comments)? if so do you plan for this or is it a byproduct of the camera? I have considered having a camera converted and was just interested.
There are a number of things going on in the first image that may contribute to the softness: the nature of the light that day, the relatively long exposure time, stitching from multiple shots (it is a pano), the lens, and/or post processing.
On the second shot and the surf, I do tend towards longer exposure times to avoid noise (it works out to something like ISO 25 equivalent); and while there are ways to catch waves when they are receding to avoid motion blur, in this image I was fortunate that the effect of the incoming wave created an effect that I thought brought the image to life.
I've never really considered IR photography in my pre-Fred Miranda days. However, once in a while a shot gets posted here which makes me rethink my position. Your first image is one of those shots. Quite stunning. Other regular IR posters here occasionally give me the wow factor, too. Hopy you guys don't end up costing me money on a conversion!
