Those shots work great with the old barns! Love it!
spoupard wrote:
Here are a couple of infrareds from my trip to the mountains this past weekend. Bonus points if you can find the cow in the first photo.
Thanks, Colin. I'm still learning a lot about IR. I often have trouble getting the black sky effect. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Obviously, I'm not going to get it when the sky is cloudy like in the first photo, but even with blue skies it sometimes only goes to a medium gray instead of dark gray or black. It could easily be in my post-processing, too. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to process my images.
spoupard wrote:
Thanks, Colin. I'm still learning a lot about IR. I often have trouble getting the black sky effect. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Obviously, I'm not going to get it when the sky is cloudy like in the first photo, but even with blue skies it sometimes only goes to a medium gray instead of dark gray or black. It could easily be in my post-processing, too. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to process my images.
I find that keeping the sun directly behind you helps to achieve the black sky effect.
Yes, I agree that images often don't have the contrast you think they should achieve.
DeltaSigma wrote:
I find that keeping the sun directly behind you helps to achieve the black sky effect.
Yes, I agree that images often don't have the contrast you think they should achieve.
Blue sky should come out very dark in IR. Colin's idea makes sense, if you are shooting towards the sun there's often an orangish glow mixed in with the blue. Or it maybe post processing.
spoupard wrote:
Here are a couple of infrareds from my trip to the mountains this past weekend. Bonus points if you can find the cow in the first photo.
Looking at Jose's macros I played a bit with my old 50mm f2 and a reversing ring on the Z5 this morning - nothing to write home about, fuzzy and mostly irredeemable. I did howver like the softness and contrast of this spent agapanthus seed pod
asiostygius wrote:
Agreed with your evaluation of this zoom Siphiwe.
On the other hand, reversed this zoom becomes an excellent "supermacro zoom":
Some samples
Most interesting, Jose. Thank you for the insight. I love these supermacro zoom pictures. I have not considered reversing anything before. Maybe I'll get lucky in future and come across a reversing ring.
The 24mm f/2.8 had its time in the sun today. In previous outings I have managed to put one or two fingers in the pictures I was taking . Today, I was more careful.
Df reds are quite accurate, which makes my poor PP work minimal.
Df + Nikkor-N Auto 24mm f/2.8 AI | F11 ISO 360 -0.33EV
You'd be forgiven thinking I was shooting a sunset in the West. But actually, this is all Alpen Glow in the North of a storm cloud approaching. 50-125mm.
asiostygius wrote:
A little Nikkor porn after an outbreak of NMFAS
At last I managed to get a little discount and bought one of the last in my list:
The 80-200/2.8 ai-s ED. Not a "Rafael's condition" lens, anyway a solid 9+.
Definitively not a hand held lens for more than 5 min, at almost 2 kg.
I planted these Tulip trees about 25 years ago, and two grew together into one 50-60 foot high tree. I have always loved the shape, color, softness, and texture of it's leaves. I got the pencil sized seedlings from a woman cursing their proliferation throughout her front lawn under a gorgeous mushroom shaped grown tree. "Take as many as you want" she said when I inquired if I might have some. I put three into a small McDonald's soda cup, but one withered and died a few years later. The other two grew to fill the space between them - becoming one tree. Anyway - thought I would do a B&W look at the leaves the last few days.
First two are with the D800 + modified TC-16a and the 85mm f1.4 ais. The next three are with the 5DS-R and the Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd micro lens.
Impressive looking storm rolling it. Good shot Leighton
leighton w wrote:
You'd be forgiven thinking I was shooting a sunset in the West. But actually, this is all Alpen Glow in the North of a storm cloud approaching. 50-125mm.
. Today, I was more careful.
