Category Archives: Infrared I played with easily a half dozen variations of this – black and white, darker blues, more reds, etc., and finally settled on this, after I added the yellow tones in the trees. This is the Lake in Central Park, taken from the 72nd Street transverse looking northwest. Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful...   I’m really not much of a Halloween person, yet I’ve managed to scare up a decent Halloween image two years running now. Have a safe, fun holiday. Tweet  Infrared, black and white photograph of the tops of the San Remo apartment building on Central Park West, taken from the 72nd Street transverse in Central Park. Tweet  Bethhesda Fountain is a great subject for infrared, as is much of Central Park, especially during the warmer months when the trees are filled with leaves. Tree leaves and most natural greens usually show up as white in infrared photography, but here I experimented with the hue and saturation controller in Photoshop and ended up...  This is an infrared image of the Bethesda Fountain Plaza in Central park, taken from underneath the underpass. I was inspired in part by Dave Beckerman’s many infrared photos of the fountain and plaza. Tweet  I came across this Central Park harpist while walking along a path one morning with my infrared converted D40, and could not be more pleased about this marriage of gear, technique and subject. Tweet  Another infrared of the Whitestone Bridge taken from Powell’s Cove in College Point in Queens. The first image, also infrared and from the same location, is here. I wish I knew how I managed to achieve the yellow colors in the wood and tree leaves. I know what I did. I simply made a white...  In the foreground is the American radiator Building, now the Bryant Park Hotel. It is the subject of the famous Georgia O’Keefe painting, “Radiator Building—Night, New York.” Looking over its shoulder from approximately a quarter mile is, of course, the Empire State Building. This was taken from Bryant Park, which sits behind the New...  Flipping a an infrared photograph from red to blue tones is easy. Getting those blue tones to a pleasing hue is hard, at least for me. I’m very pleased with the result here, but I do not think this particular mix would transfer well tomost shots. Tweet  This reminds me of those European folk tales where there is a deceptively cozy cottage situated inexplicably in the middle of a brooding forest, except the cottage is a dual-towered apartment building. And I don’t know whether if you went to this building, would you find a witch, a wolf, an imp, a dwarf, a...  Powell’s Cove Park is billed as an “environmental waterfront park completed in 1999, … a bay with sizable wetlands and filled, undeveloped uplands.” The majority of the park consists of submerged marshlands. There is not much to it, but it has an awesome view of the Whitestone Bridge and the Bronx. This is true infrared taken...  Quick one today, which also applies to the processing. This is an infrared converted to black and white in Silver Efex Pro with the Cool Ton ePaper filter. This is an obstructed view of the Manhattan skyline from Vernon Boulevard in Queens. Tweet  This picture reminds me of why I shoot Nikon. But first, let’s start at the beginning. My First Camera and Temporary Blindness My first camera was a Kodak Brownie. I’m pretty sure the one shown at the link is the one I had. I remember it being a hand-me-down, and I thought it was ancient,...  I’m willing to entertain the notion that I went a little overboard with this one. In particular, the HDR processing is probably gratuitous. Nevertheless, once I started down the road I could not turn back. This is a still life of some sort of potpourri display that was a gift to my wife, taken in...  This is an infrared image of the moon, some clouds, and part of a bush, taken around 4:00 pm in my backyard. Apart from the clouds, there was a bright blue sky. The infrared capture and black and white conversion create the illusion of darkness. Actually, I would not know how to get a capture...  Over the summer I processed a few images using a false infrared filter applied in post. Both Nik’s Silver Efex and Color Efex have such filters. I liked the results, but wanted to try real infrared. The best solution is film, theoretically, but it has major impediments these days. Some of the best infrared films...  |
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