More playing around with the 403 UV pass filter

Here's a test of the 403 filter again, but this time I converted it to B&W. I need to try this again and shoot with both the 403 filter and a standard IR filter to see the difference.

Lake reflection

Reflections look especially good with IR images.

Jenny lake, Grand Tetons

Drown tree

Swan Lake in Black and White

As a reprise to yesterday's post, here is yesterday's location in traditional B&W.

Holland Lake

Spent a week in Montana at a B&W Photography/Printing workshop led by Nathan McCreery, and hosted at the Photographer’s Formulary. We focused on shooting and printing B&W film. The Photographer’s Formulary has a full darkroom at their facility with professional grade printers. Learned a new way to shoot using the zone system and a spotmeter, developed many rolls and sheets of film. 

 The biggest lesson learned here is that making a good negative to print is much harder than making a negative that scans well. I’d been pretty happy with the results from scaning my negatives the last couple of years. It was only when I tried to print some of these that I realized that they weren’t actually exposed as well as I thought. This experience has gotten me to realize that I need to be more careful with my exposures and need to make physical prints more often.


This image was made at Holland Lake near sunset.

The photograph was made with my B&J 4×5 press camera, 150 mm lens, Ilford Delta Pro 100 film, developed in Ilford DD-X developer and scanned on an Epson V700 flatbed scanner.

Self portrait

Yes, I'm somewhere in the frame. Here is a hint.

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More Reflections at Walden Ponds

Last of the shots from Walden Ponds. Taken with IR converted Nikon. 

 Next week something completely different.

IR Reflection

A few lessons here. Fall colors aren't very interesting in IR, but reflections are great. Walden Ponds, Boulder Open Space, Boulder CO.

Water flower

Pond work

Lilly pad

Floater

From the pond at the Denver Botanic Gardens. 

Water Lilly

Another shot from Hudson Gardens. This one without the diffuser. The image has much higher contrast because of the harsh light. I think I would have preferred it with softer light. Unfortunately the flower was in the middle of the pond, so well out of the reach of my using the diffuser.  

Water Flower

Went down to Hudson Gardens, located south of Denver in Littleton, for a workshop run by Eli Vega. This one is my favorite of all the shots made that day. Eli helped refine the composition. An important new technique he introduced us to is the use of diffusers to lower contrast of the midday sun. Made a huge difference in the image.

Around home

Water droplets magnifying a leaf following a storm.

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia: Fountain

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia: Fish

Moab Photo Symposium: Reflections

On Friday we took a workshop with Guy Tal and hiked up Hunters Canyon to shoot. On the way out, with the light fading, I passed by this wash and made a photograph.