Director: Meiert Avis
Production company: Windmill Lane Productions
Artist: Bob Dylan
Song: Series of Dreams
editing: The Irish Times “Cora Venus Lunny”
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Production company: Speers Films
Client: The Irish Times
editing: Finches “Poet”
Director: John Hayes
Production company: Toytown Productions
Client: Finches
editing: Finches “Betty”
Director: John Hayes
Production company: Toytown Productions
Client: Finches
ir idea
I’m wondering if it would be possible to paint a scene on a very long exposure using remotes like in Risky or Steve Winwood. Maybe a cluster of remotes all strapped together. The only radiation source being the ir from the remotes, natural or tungsten light sources eliminated. Have to wait for the equipment to arrive and a tripod to do the test.In the mean time, getting ready to shoot for a wedding. The groom is wearing tungsten rings for men and they look amazing with the ir view. The bride with her white gold engagement ring is a bit harder to capture correctly with this setup. I’ll update with more information when I have the time.
first IR picture
Here’s the first IR result. Got the Hoya R72 today. Handheld in front of the ixus – no mount or tripod.
photo: infrared photography using a Canon Digital Ixus 500
I’ve been looking at flickr a lot lately and have come across some amazing infrared photgraphy which, until very recently, I didn’t realise was possible using a digital camera. I suppose I hadn’t thought about it too much, but I’ve decided to try for myself.
The first thing to check is to see whether or not my camera (Digital IXUS 500) is usable, and one way to do this is to point any remote control at the camera, press a button and see if the IR beam is visible. Happily for me, it is – see above.
The next thing to do is find an IR filter, and searching around the web, it seems that a Hoya R72 will do the trick. Seeing that I’d like to share this filter with my other cameras, a 52mm filter seems optimal.
Finally, I need some sort of device to attach it to the camera, and with the guidance of publicenergy on flickr, I ordered one of the adaptor tubes from hkdcplus.
So now I am in wait mode – both filter and adaptor & step up ring are in the post. The results will be posted here.
hardware predicament redux
Last week I wrote:
For the current models, the prices look like:
Eur 1,329.75 ex VAT iBook 14″: 1.33GHz G4 (512 MB SDRAM)
Eur 1,924.79 ex VAT PowerBook 15″: 1.67GHz G4 (512 MB SDRAM)Six hundred euros in the difference.
Well, I was incorrect about the rumours, new iBooks came out all right but not the fabled widescreen model, only modest speed bumps and 512 MB RAM as standard. The prices now look like:
Eur 1,131.40 ex VAT iBook 14″: 1.42GHz G4 (512 MB SDRAM)
Eur 1,924.79 ex VAT PowerBook 15″: 1.67GHz G4 (512 MB SDRAM)
So for the new iBook: a modest speed bump, faster graphics, the motion sensor thingumajig in case you drop it, the scrolling trackpad, bluetooth (can’t remember if it’s in the previous version).
What concerns me most though about this machine is its resolution: 1024×768 is just too shaggin’ small, considering I’m editing images which are (natively) more than twice the width. That’s a problem for me. From what I gather, the VGA video output is still stuck at 1024×768, so there’s no scope for hooking it up to a bigger external display.
I just want another PowerBook.
chicktion
I was listening to the radio yesterday when someone was interviewing two women who write trashy novels. The novels specifically deal with ordinary women with ordinary lives and ordinary body shapes. The word chicktion came into my mind – a concatenation / bastardisation of fiction and chick. My wife thought it was an apt description and thought I should write it down somewhere in case I forget. Anyway, today I went onto Google and searched chicktion, and indeed there are a few hits, dating back to December 03. So, my word isn’t original.
Bollocks!
Anyway, chicktion.
hardware predicament
My current workhorse is a TiBook 800MHz – a 15″ PowerBook G4 which I’ve had since May 2002. It has been a great machine and has served me well for over three years, but it’s beginning to show its age. Getting a bit chipped around the edges, not the racehorse it used to be (!) and I’m getting slightly electrocuted under certain conditons. I also think it’s time for a dvd burner which I don’t have.
What to do?
I have a limited budget (three kids and a mortgage) and I was thinking of a G5 iMac or, if rumours prove true, one of the new widescreen iBooks. Alternatively, another PowerBook. Basically I have to decide if I’m going to be portable or deskbound. I’m probably going to miss portability, so chances are it’ll be a ‘Book of some sort.
For the current models, the prices look like:
Eur 1,329.75 ex VAT iBook 14″: 1.33GHz G4 (512 MB SDRAM)
Eur 1,924.79 ex VAT PowerBook 15″: 1.67GHz G4 (512 MB SDRAM)
Six hundred euros in the difference.