Photo-a-day

[g8ina]

Here's a couple of IRs, mono & colour, from todays shoot, first major run out of the year. D70IR, 720nM.

[kalniel]

Now those are something g8ina. Noticeable step up (in my eyes, as I'm not into IR stuff) from previous photos.

[Rob_B]

Note to Self: It is very cold and windy in Edinburgh today, wear your coat when going outside...


Jenners & Scott Monument by Rob_norb17, on Flickr

[g8ina]

Thanks Kal and Ani, more of same in my Flickr....

So far I've not tried any serious false colour with the D70 as, at 720nM, you aint gonna get that much, but I do like the way these have turned out. Shot in RAW and mucked about with in CS5, could never have got it done at JPG !

[g8ina]

A new edit from NEF, this is an old one, but since I played about with the RAW infrared stuff, I wondered how much better I could make this one ...

[redddraggon]

A new edit from NEF, this is an old one, but since I played about with the RAW infrared stuff, I wondered how much better I could make this one ...

Very Nice. Background is perfectly out of focus. What kit did you use?

What do you use to edit your raws? One thing that did jump out at me, is that you seem to have quite a bit of grain/noise in the background, perhaps caused by the sharpening? If you are using Lightroom (and presumably ACR), you can use the "Masking" bit of sharpening so that you don't sharpen the background. The Noise reduction function will also work to reduce the grain, but if it's caused by the sharpening you can easily prevent it.

[g8ina]

This was a Nikon D70 on a 500mm f5 manual scope. Was a high ISO, so yes, there is noise, not so much by sharpening as not much needed, but personally I can live with it now. It was a LOT worse before. Using CS5 for editing.

[Ruggerbugger]

a lovely Russian lady who is over here studying - met her on Thursday night and she expressed an interest in having a shoot.. told her i was free Friday Afternoon for an hour, so here's one of the first shots from the session

Why don't I meet any lovely Russian ladies when I go out? Is there something about Birmingham Airport multistorey they don't like?

The Russians are coming!



The Russians are going!

[kushtibari]

Nice IR stuff Dave - I've a K20D sitting gathering dust that I might just get converted. Quite fancy it and been thinking about it for ages now.

Playing with LR4 which I like a lot - last years snow unfortunately.

[DannyM]

Get your CGI crap out of here, this photos for pictures taken with cameras!




... As usual, fantastic, it looks so calm and peaceful there.

[g8ina]

Kushti - I can recommend Pro Camera Repair in San Diego for the conversion, they are cheaper than any in the UK, even when you add postage both ways... They are in ebay, and are actually using one of my images in their ads

[g8ina]

A few IRs from our cracking day out in Cambridge, yesterday All D70 720nM, most with colour, some mono. Full set at Flickr

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3- Ceiling and organ of Kings College Chapel

[kalniel]

[Hoonigan]

Taken on my 4S, not bad if you ask me.. but they don't do the scenery justice, that's for sure

[kushtibari]

Its bonny down at that side of the lake - always head there if we have a combination of mist and high water. Hot today - up Blencathra via Sharp Edge and was red hot.

[Hoonigan]

Its bonny down at that side of the lake - always head there if we have a combination of mist and high water. Hot today - up Blencathra via Sharp Edge and was red hot.

Yeah, it was very nice down there, we even had 3 model airplanes flying about putting on a bit of a show. Flying upside down and doing flips, was ace!

Headed to Aira Force waterfall afterwards, but my phone had died before we got to there. That was pretty cool, looking down on the waterfall from the bridge above, with a lovely rainbow in the mist. Would've been perfect for a proper photographer with a DSLR.

Spent £11 on parking today.. Ridiculous!