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Gerry had a go at me last week about not getting out and about with my D80IR, or at least not posting much of the work from this camera. I have to admit that I have not had a lot of opportunity to shoot in IR due to the bad weather (= less than ideal IR conditions) but I did manage to get out with the camera today.

NOTE: all of these images have had the RED and BLUE channels swapped

The war memorial in the shade


St Mary's Cathederal behind brilliant foliage


Leading lines!!!


Doesnt look like IR!!

#3 looks stunning cam. I love that shot.

Thanks Chris....when are you going to post some off your D60IR?

Agree that third is best. It almost has an unnatural, virtual world feel to it. Meant in a good way.

Great to see some of your IR shots Cameron. The second and third image in this set demonstrates perfectly that you are using the effect to compliment composition and scene - both are strong compositions straight out of the box and the IR effect gives it that extra element which adds to teh scene in the surreal nature that IR does. This point is pretty important since its easy to take a picture whereby the effect is the dominant aspect rather than using teh effect to compliment AND enhance the scene.

1 and 4 do little for me. 1 could be made substantually better by having teh war memorial enhanced, ie bathed in light or something, obviously a physical environmental limitation more than composition or camera work.

cam right now im just trying to find enuf time to breathe ! lol the only thing getting any use at the moment is the d5100 for the family snaps. creative photography has taken a serious backseat for the time being.

Reschsmooth wrote:Agree that third is best. It almost has an unnatural, virtual world feel to it. Meant in a good way.

Thanks!

biggerry wrote:Great to see some of your IR shots Cameron. The second and third image in this set demonstrates perfectly that you are using the effect to compliment composition and scene - both are strong compositions straight out of the box and the IR effect gives it that extra element which adds to teh scene in the surreal nature that IR does. This point is pretty important since its easy to take a picture whereby the effect is the dominant aspect rather than using teh effect to compliment AND enhance the scene.

1 and 4 do little for me. 1 could be made substantually better by having teh war memorial enhanced, ie bathed in light or something, obviously a physical environmental limitation more than composition or camera work.

Thanks for the feedback Gerry, much appreciated. I agree that #3 is my favouite, and combined with #2 they really are the strongest of this bunch. #3 would work well as a straight Black and White image.

I was actually quite amazed by the extra dynamic range that the IR camera allowed for in these images, especially #4, which is why I have included it. I have tried many, many times to get an image of that particular statue and failed miserably due to the dark metal and very strong backlight, but the IR seems to made enough difference to allow the capture of the detail (with a bit of D-Light help) without blowing out the sky. The D80, as you probably know is not the happiest beasty in extreme contrast situations.

Rooz wrote:cam right now im just trying to find enuf time to breathe ! lol the only thing getting any use at the moment is the d5100 for the family snaps. creative photography has taken a serious backseat for the time being.

Hopefully we will you will find some more time for photography as the little ones grow up! I'll bet your enjoying every moment of it though!

I like them...