Sunday, December 25, 2005

Welcome to the World of IR Photography.... NOT!!!

For the last trip that I took, I brought along the Hoya IR filter which I just recently acquired. Because of that, I thought... Good, since the sun is usually bright and blue skies and nice green lanscapes that you would think you will see in Australia, so I thought it would be a good idea to try out IR photography. For those who do not know what IR means - it's Infrared. If you visit some photography sites, you will find some very nice photos done using that method....

Sad to say... I had briefly read the instructions about, say, 3 months ago, and thought, well, it sounds easy... Fine, so I started taking quite a couple of shots.... Then when I came back, started to do some post-processing.... Well, that's where I realised that I had not followed the instructions carefully... I missed 1 step in the list of instructions..... I forgot to do a custom white balance setting based on the first shot (of either clear bright sky or green field).... Because of that, all my pics came up in this reddish shots which looked very much like nuclear holocaust.... Feeling so embarrassed for not re-reading the instructions again before starting....

Oh well.... Anyway, here's the shots that I had taken....

Melbourne...


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Mel_Stars_in_Sky_Web

Mel_BourkeStMall1_Web

Mel_BourkeStMall2_Web

Mel_BourkeStMall3_Web

Mel_IR_Haywired_Web
*Nuclear Holocaus! Red!!*



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Flight from Melbourne to Brisbane


Brisbane


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Bris_Cat_Web
Was visiting a friend's home when her cat appears....

Starting of the "haywired" IR shots - with some post processing, of course...
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Bris_IR_Haywire3_Web

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Was on my way back from customer site in Gold Coast when I saw this road sign....
Tanah Merah in Queensland???

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4 comments:

naniecheng said...

very clear and nice.

Visible, Invisible said...

Er... For which one??? Heh... I like the stars with the sky as backdrop... Just too bad the IR did not turn out right... Would have been interesting to see it not in it's original colours...

Anonymous said...

Some very nice shots here. I especially like the starry sky shot, the one in the original colours, before getting nuked :-)

Visible, Invisible said...

Thanks pfong... Yes, that is the favourite of mine among this batch of photos... As well as the sunset with plane wing...