Thanks for the comments on the Gunnera IR.
It was taken a few years ago in Cornwall on my D80.
A DX sensor and the 16/3.5 was a great combo given the 16mm is probably one of the sharpest resolving lenses I have in IR.
Now, where is that New Year resolution list.......
leighton w wrote:
Go to the very top of the page. Click My Profile>Edit Profile. A little window pops up, scroll to the bottom until you see the box next to signature.
Thanks very much Leighton, I have a feeling my profile is corrupted as I have only my rather obsolete equipment list showing!
Thanks for the Rhubarb ID, it certainly transforms with IR.
Some wild Rhododendrons with the D800 and 85mm f/1.4 AI-S
Thanks for the comments on the Gunnera IR.
It was taken a few years ago in Cornwall on my D80.
A DX sensor and the 16/3.5 was a great combo given the 16mm is probably one of the sharpest resolving lenses I have in IR.
Now, where is that New Year resolution list.......
Colin
Gunnera yes. My younger brother had one in his garden in Wirral last time I visited. The west coast being warmed by the Gulf Stream (North Atlantic Drift) hence the reason for palm trees in Torquay and the Isle of Man. Even then has to be well wrapped up during the dormant winter months.
Well, the problems were use of wrong images in the merge and the softness in middle is gone and colors now are more like the original scene and not so electric, lol and the full image in correct perspective is there. Lol, this picture is hilarious, I have been working on it for hours. I think I just need to return to the scene of the crime and reshoot.
Colin,
Found an interesting wiki entry about Gunnera. There are 40-60 varieties. Your IR photo comes back as 65% likely Brazilian giant rhubarb with the latin classification of "Gunnera manicata Linden ex Delchev". If you look up Gunnera on wiki it has this interesting entry about the leaf size in the very first paragraph...
"The width of the leaf blade is typically 2.5 meters (8 feet 2 inches), but on two occasions cultivated specimens (in Dorset, England in 2011 and at Narrowwater, Ulster, Ireland in 1903) produced leaves fully 3.3 meters (10 feet 10 inches) in width."
Seems Gunnera love the UK
Jim
DeltaSigma wrote:
Plant is known in our part of the world as Gunnera.
Grows very well in the temperate SW of England - centre stage in IR using 16/3.5
AM4L wrote:
Well, the problems were use of wrong images in the merge and the softness in middle is gone and colors now are more like the original scene and not so electric, lol and the full image in correct perspective is there.
Some 6-bladed bokeh going on in the one above so after 'Ninja' moved out of the way I concentrated on the tree lights. The layers of hexagonal shapes creating illusions of cubes.
Some 6-bladed bokeh going on in the one above so after 'Ninja' moved out of the way I concentrated on the tree lights. The layers of hexagonal shapes creating illusions of cubes.
Colin - the pics are lovely, especially the second one, he/she? is a magnificent looking Siamese , wonderful ears, but that hexagonal bokeh is so distracting. I hope you don't mind me saying it. I feel I can say it, as I have that lens, and my 35mm and 135mm lenses have the same. It doesn't usually show up for me, I don't usually shoot close up, but I noticed it for the first time last year ( feels strange saying that already about 2021) and now I can't unsee it. It drives me spare. It's really striking in your pics.
bruni wrote:
Colin - the pics are lovely, especially the second one, he/she? is a magnificent looking Siamese , wonderful ears, but that hexagonal bokeh is so distracting. I hope you don't mind me saying it. I feel I can say it, as I have that lens, and my 35mm and 135mm lenses have the same. It doesn't usually show up for me, I don't usually shoot close up, but I noticed it for the first time last year ( feels strange saying that already about 2021) and now I can't unsee it. It drives me spare. It's really striking in your pics.
Ben,
First one is our 10 year old blue/lilac-point male - in prime position on the bean bag in front of the fire.
The second is our ~3 year old chocolate-point female atop the coffee table.
I guess the hexagonal distraction is accentuated becasue of the LED lights on the Xmas tree.
Those hexagonal shapes are distracting but could be put to better use under a different scenario.
DeltaSigma wrote:
Ben,
First one is our 10 year old blue/lilac-point male - in prime position on the bean bag in front of the fire.
The second is our ~3 year old chocolate-point female atop the coffee table.
I guess the hexagonal distraction is accentuated becasue of the LED lights on the Xmas tree.
Those hexagonal shapes are distracting but could be put to better use under a different scenario.
Colin
Colin
Wonderful cat portraits, you must be channeling Picasso's cubist cats!
I suppose it could be fun to try the same subjects with the Christmas tree using your 55mm f/2.8 that shows 'cat's eye' shapes to the de focused lights.
