Nice gallery overall, the first image is particularly striking. IR gives interesting colours, it looks like snow.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: > http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/mallows-bay-park > > Something for everyone - color infrared, mono infrared, and straight color > shots with the K3. > > A few technical comments beyond what I wanted to put in my blog: > > The first shot is color IR because otherwise the leaves of the tree and the > overcast sky virtually blend together. The color gives much better tonal > separation. > > I took the second shot in both IR and color (K10D and K3). Invisible in the > IR shot but distracting in the color shot is a good bit of dead foliage in > the foreground. So instead of getting a nice green frame around the sunken > boat there is a distracting green and brown mess of foliage. The IR shot > rendered as mono worked best. > > This was the only loation where I used the Takumar F 70-200 and that was to > get frame filling shot of the shipwreck out in the bay. The lens is wickedly > sharp and the detail in the old hulk of a boat is interesting at actual > pixels since you can see a lot of detail - but a smaller image showing just > the wreck out in the water without context is not interesting so it didn't > get posted. At the end of the day I could have lived without any lens longer > than 70mm. > > The third shot was probably the most technically challenging in that there > was a persistent glare off the wood hull of the sunken boat and the algae > around it. I was glad I packed a polarizing filter. With the polarizer and a > little post exposure processing things came out OK. > > Thanks for looking and comments appreciated. > > Mark > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
