Not snow, but IR

Now that we have some spring vegetation, I've been shooting with my IR conversion Nikon. The green grass almost looks snow covered. The only giveaway that it is not snow, is the foliage in the trees.

Here is the original image as captured by the sensor. After readjusting the white balance on the vegetation, reversing the red and blue channels, and upping the saturation a tad we get:  

IR, Not Winter

Well Friday night I finely figured out how to process my IR images to get this sort of false color effect. Needless to say it took a couple of hours and opening of photoshop to make the final adjustments. 

Note that there is no snow in this image. The off white on the ground is green grass and the tree is full of bright green leaves. That is how it look in the IR spectrum. 

Happy Mothers Day

Public Art at the Denver International Airport (DIA). The piece is called Denver Lily and was made by the artist Price Davis. It measures almost 3 stories high.

Pinhole: Portal Cabin

I shoot this area a lot. It is up by the East Portal along the front range. There are some abandoned railroad worker cabins here which make interesting subjects to shoot. This is the third scene I shot with my ONDU pinhole camera. Again, it is not as sharp as I'd like, but that may be the scan. 

 Shot with Kodak Tmax 400 B&W 120 size film. Exposure is 5 seconds on a bright sunny day.

Pinhole: Nederland garage

This is the first image I made with my ONDU pinhole camera. We drove up to Nederland in the local mountains and I shot this old garage. I got a total of six images out of a 120 roll. I had to guess at the exposure, but it turned out pretty well exposed. It is not as sharp as I thought it should be, but that might simply be the scan. Got it commercially developed and they did a basic scan. I will be silver printing it in the next few weeks and posting that. It should be sharper. 

The format is very wide. I wasn't expecting that, so I will have to get closer to my subjects. Now that I have an idea of the correct exposure, I've shot a second roll. I will post that when I get it back from the lab. Image taken in bright sun. 

Exposure is 5 seconds, using Kodak Tmax 400 film.