It’s amazing and sad all at once
Mariah sent me two videos last night and it was amazing to watch the pride and joy on Caira’s face as she made her way across the carpet and sad that I wasn’t there. :[
Up the river
I guess I’ve been on a roll with infrared photos this weekend, between yesterday and this evening. I got off work at three as there was literally nothing for me to do - I took the manager I would come in tomorrow morning as I don’t trust the termporary staff to organise the customer deliveries. It was worth it, I ran home, grabbed my kit and went up to Terryland, newly armed with a hotshoe spirit level that came free with a five euro magazine. Sure beats the 18 euros Jessop’s in Dublin wanted for it. And honestly, I’m already wondering how I ever managed to live without it.
The weather turned, I had no hat or gloves, and so I went home a few photos better off.
Full circle
Some comparisons
For all the gear I took with me this evening I managed to forget my gloves, although thankfully the wind wasn’t all that bad once I got away from the sea.
Hah.
These first four photos are infrared, I really was impressed with how the 28 and 50mm lenses performed - there’s no hotspots in any of the 40-odd IR photos I took, although there is a definite vignetting in most of them. I don’t mind it though, I think it adds a nice feel to the photos. So to give my official reccomendation, if you want to try IR photography with a Canon camera, splash out a little and get either the f/2.8 28mm or the f/1.8 50mm lenses.
And now for the point of this post. One thing I wanted to try today was to go back and capture previously shot scenes, but in infrared this time around. I’m dead happy with the results. Ordering is new and then the original:
Remember this?
Bill Gates, eat your heart out
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So I apparently can’t just “go out”
I’m off to Renville for the evening to take photos and as it stands right now, this is the full complement of what is going with me:
Tripod
Two cameras
Three lenses
Polarising and IR filters
Cable release for my Canon
Flashgun for my Canon
Spare batteries for everything
Several spare rolls of film
Hmmph
I guess yesterady wasn’t such a complete writeoff after all. I managed to get a few (94 :) photos of a street soccer match out behind the Jervis shopping centre before the gang of teenagers chased me off..literally. I dropped down to medium jpeg resolution, set the camera to monochrome and started snapping madly. Considering the only lens with me was the 50mm I’m happy that any came out okay.
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You can find the balance of photos in my Dublin set.
Me, elsewhere
