Infrared

More Infrared with the EM-5.1. These, again focusing on the backlit leaves. I’m more and more a fan of backlit foliage for Infrared, as it’s just more interesting to me than full-on foliage shots. Those are so ordinary. Look at the Scupernine vineyards photo (in fact both of them). Sitting on the ground, this was around an hour after sunrise. The sun was relatively low and just glows behind the foliage. Whether this is right or not, I usually just shoot these 720 or 850nm shots in Monochrome and push the histogram to get what I like.

So i thought that I was finished with the photos of the hay field, but this one was sitting in my “To Post” pile and I just had to put it up. I know almost no one reads this BLOG, but I still use it to post the images that I feel are my favorites and show my growth in photography. 2023 has been a good year for me for photos and I’m really, really pleased at what I’ve done. There’s nothing that’s going to win a national photo contest, but I don’t shoot stuff that would win those awards

I posted most of my favorites…..then saw this one which I had selected for posting, but forgot. I think it is good enough to be on it’s own, envisioned as a panorama when I took it. AND these are the three favorite Infrared shots from this session

This is the second part of the in-the-hay-field shot that I did with the E-M5.1 Infrared camera. In case you didn’t read the previous post, this is a 590nm converted camera where I’m using a 720nm R72 almost black filter. Shot this one right into the sun white it was a little hidden by the clouds. Love the sky and the altocumulus clouds. I wondered down by the fence and got a trio of great shots right after this one I like the symmetrical nature of this one. Not sure I’m happy with the fuzzy edges however. I probably didn’t

I am at my family home in Covington Ga and they had just rolled up the hay into those giant, picturesque round bales. I thought that there has got to be a bunch of photos. I went to the field at around 10:00-11:00 and the light was just not low enough. So I promised myself to g back the next day and try when the sun was peaking over the trees, which is around 9:00 in GA, which is at the western end of the Eastern Timezone. It was wet from the morning dew, but I decided to just get

This is the companion to the previous pink image of the fisherman. I said there was a nice bridge, and here it is, but in a more “normal” yellow foliage, yet still infrared. I also masked out the bridge and ground and desaturated it so it looks more natural.

The Rahway River flows through Cranford NJ and there are a bunch of places in that and surrounding towns to walk by and over the river. Unfortunately, this also means that the houses along the river are prone to flooding, sometimes severe. But for the rest of us, it’s a nice little, meandering park that offers lots of opportunities for photos and contemplation. I found a bridge over the river on the south side of Cranford one day (there will be another photo of that bridge( and walked out to see a gentleman fly fishing in the river. I thought,

Still in Apalachicola, Florida. There is a city park in town right next to the bayshore with wonderful, ancient live oak trees that I like to go photograph, as they offer nice possibilities. There are also these great streetlights that I actually have never noticed. I found a few nice compositions with the lights, and being late in the day, the lights came on and I found some even nicer photos with the light on as you see below. To me, there are two IR shots to be had here, one set during the middle of the day when the

From Versailles, France at the Palace. There are a bunch of ”groves” on the palace grounds that have different themes. One that I was able to see in May when I was there was The Enceladus Grove. It has all these trellises that had superb patterns. I wish I had been there longer to explore, but family vacations offer little time for casual photography. This one was taken on a cloudy day with my IR converted Olympus E-M5.1 with a 720nm filter.

I have an Olympus E-M5 Mk1 that I had modified back 3-4 years ago by LifePixel to have a 590nm (Super Color) IR Filter. At the time, I had an unmodified, identical body, so it made sense to have two bodies exactly the same except one was IR and one was unmodified. The camera has served me well and I recently wanted to shoot it in pure black-and-white, vs. a Super Color image where I had to process it afterwards by swapping the R/B channels and tweaking the color channels to extract as much color information as possible. I had