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Strange things are beginning to happen to my old TiBook. Three years old this month and it had never really been turned off, so it doesn’t owe me much I guess. I took this screen capture after it awoke from sleep and behaved strangely, and surprisingly enough the weird pixels were captured, which I was surprised at. I think that this may be important in tracking down where the problem might lie. I’ll have to head off to Apple Discussions for a read.
This is a composite of a colour and infrared image. The camera was mounted on a tripod, then various bracketed exposures of the infrared image were taken, followed by a colour image in the same position. I chose a well exposed infrared image and combined it in Gimp with the colour image using overlay.
Because of the long exposures in infrared, I’m getting some weird noise artifacts and occasionally dead pixels. I thing the Ixus does a lot of processing internally when it takes long exposures to reduce the amount of noise, and it’s for this reason that I’d like to experiment using RAW format, which my camera doesn’t do.
Director: Jimmy Duggan
Production company: Tyrone Productions
I suppose I’m a little despondent about the digital IR results to date, but there again it’s early days. Seeing that the old Yashica will be fixed sometime in the near future, I wonder what results I’d get if I loaded it with XP2 and used the Hoya R72.
Thanks to Rob Novak for showing me why this idea won’t work…
From usenet: alt.photography
Rob Novak wrote:
XP2’s response drops greatly after 630nm, and has virtually no response to wavelengths below 660nm. The R72 filter’s transmittance curve doesn’t even start until 700nm, reaching peak transmittance at 750nm.
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Production company: Speers Films
Client: The Irish Times
Director: John Moore
Production company: Russell Avis Productions
Client: Kerry Foods
This one is doing strangely well (for me anyway) on Flickr. I uploaded it sort of as a joke because it’s so like a photo by a photographer I admire called Catherine Jamieson from Canada. Click on the image to go to Flickr and all will be revealed.
Another in the infrared series of images taken in Wicklow. I’m beginning to think I’d be just as well off with a dark red filter and some nice BW stock in my old (almost fixed) Yashica.
Here’s a view from the foothills(!) of the Sugarloaf looking south. Taken with a Hoya R72 filter and accoutrements. I’m disappointed in the focus. But maybe I’m just doing something wrong.
I suppose I’m a little despondent about the digital IR results to date, but there again it’s early days. Seeing that the old Yashica will be fixed sometime in the near future, I wonder what results I’d get if I loaded it with XP2 and used the Hoya R72. The Yashica also has the advantage of 28mm, 50mm and 70-210mm lenses. It will be interesting to see. I wonder if I can get into the grounds of the bowling event in Dun Laoghaire in September so that I don’t have to shoot through the fence. Although I suppose the fence gives credence to the perception of elitism around this sport in Ireland.
Hmm.
There’s always the bowling green in Herbert Park. I need some good light.