The Photography Thread 2

[MartyG]

Lion Bridge

[EvilBoris]

That's a lovely shot Fishbowl, 1 person in the shot makes it more interesting.

I also like that last shot Marty, the circle created by the reflection and the Castle thing in the background makes what would have been a boring bridge look good.

[MartyG]

Cheers. That'll be Burghley House - I don't think it's by accident it's visible through the bridge arch. You can't usually get that shot as the river is in the way and the gate at the other end of the bridge is locked - but for the Burghley Horse Trials they damn off the river and open up the fencing for part of the course, so you can get down under the bridge.

[EvilBoris]

I've been away in Hamburg for a couple of days and have 1500 photos to sort through and process.

Also, I've bought a cheap canon IXUS off eBay and am planning on modding it for Near Infra Red photography, hoping the filter material will arrive soon.

[MartyG]

Interesting, I've been considering doing a conversion of one of my cameras. Which model is it? I got an IXUS 70 for cheap on eBay - will be interested to see how you get on with your conversion.

[EvilBoris]

It's an Ixus 860 , 'twas only 15quid as the screen has a weird blotch on it. That model can be modded with Chdk to get raw output on it , which made it overall a good one to take a punt on

[MartyG]

Seems to be a few about - I've got an Olympus C2040Z which doesn't have a very good IR filter on it and is already very sensitive to IR light, might have a play with that and see if it'll work with a VL fliter on the front (basically unprocessed 35mm film ).

Another from the other day on Stamford Meadows, this taken with the Fujifilm XF1.

[EvilBoris]

I removed the IR filter from it today, was really easy, took about 15 minutes.
Even doing that gives the photos a very red look, plants in particular look very strange already.

Just gotta wait for the filter material to come as I don't have any old film knocking about.

[MartyG]

Didn't work with the film across the front as the camera couldn't focus - might have a proper go when I get a chance as I really like the idea of IR photography.

[EvilBoris]

Didn't work with the film across the front as the camera couldn't focus - might have a proper go when I get a chance as I really like the idea of IR photography.

I didn't check the post and the filters were in there! I've popped on in and already have some weirdness going on

I'm just trying to work out how to process a CHDK Raw file into something I can work with

[MartyG]

Surprised CHDK doesn't save out as Adobe DNGs. Any luck EB?

Being going through some more of my shots from last week (from the Pentax Q10). Can't decide whether I like this one or not. I've being going on a photo purge on my flickr too removing stuff I wasn't critical enough on when I originally upload them.

[EvilBoris]

Yeah got it in the end, the camera was crashing when I was trying to generate a file needed for DNGs to work, but I've installed a beta version of CHDK and it worked.

Just a quick test out of the window

Infra Red Test by EvilBoris, on Flickr

[capcom_suicide]

More on the film side, but a similar theme It's quite tricky with underwater photography, with the low light levels and water particles causing varying degrees of issues. This is even more pronounced when in caves or wrecks. I have spliced together a "First person view" from one of caves we visited, my aim here was to have no fancy music or camera angles, but literally try to put the viewer into my position to see how it was to visit a cave a thousand foot in.

There are a few challenges in this, in that cave diving requires quite some focus and the camera rig required to light a cave is very large, (7200Lumens) and that using my primary light to signal the team, checking gas supply, ensuring a high degree of awareness where I am, the team are and when the line/exit navigation "T" junctions etc all require effort that I can't do on "Auto pilot." This means I can see a lot of areas the film could be smoother/better.....

[EvilBoris]

Very cool.
I'd love to learn to Scuba dive, it's on my list of things to do.

What are the lines on the floor for? To mark a safe route?

[capcom_suicide]

Very cool.
I'd love to learn to Scuba dive, it's on my list of things to do.

What are the lines on the floor for? To mark a safe route?

Yeah, diving is fun, but make sure you get solid training, my choice being www.gue.com

There are some very basic rules to surviving cave dives, and one of them is a continuous line to the surface. The line is thin nylon braided cave line with knots every three meters. Sometimes they put thick yellow kermantle line in, but the cave is so delicate here that the thin line doesn't encourage divers to go off to the side and damage the environment.