Some from this morning

MrScott · 4 Mar 2006 at 15:20

Hello all. This morning I went out to Stanley Park in the snow, I'd been meaning to go for a while and with the sun out and snow on the ground i had no excuse not to.

A couple of IR to start with:

An ordinary b&w of some trees:

Clock tower from below:

Some daffodils - yes, it is really spring!

All taken with my trusty Canon S2 IS. Thanks for looking.

Scott.

cyKey · 4 Mar 2006 at 15:52

I prefer the colour shots to the IR ones. I don't quite get why people are taking IR shots of winter scenes :confused:

Rwac · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:12

I think no.2 would have benefited from no IR/Filters. The clock tower is nice.

hoodmeister · 4 Mar 2006 at 21:13

I've been using IR filters in the snow because I've been using IR filters on just about everything - just to see how it looks. I've not yet been through a year of photography, so a lot of situations are new to me. Just experimenting.
I may still have used an IR filter in these shots to get the "IR sky" effect, and possibly to blur the water.

The IR shots are OK, but have a very blue cast to them?
Loving the DoF in the last shot

cyKey · 4 Mar 2006 at 22:20

I've never photographed snow using IR so that would also be new to me too. I just didn't see the point in taking a white countryside scene and using an IR filter to make a white countryside scene

I know IR does more than that but its main stereotype is snowy scenes.

MrScott · 4 Mar 2006 at 23:42

Evening all, thanks for the comments. Interesting points about using the IR, I only got the filter a week or so ago and this is the first time I've properly tried it out. Personally I think it does add a lot to #1, which to me feels more atmospheric than it would have in colour or ordinary b&w (#3 is almost the same shot taken without the filter). As for #2 I did take one with and one without the filter, this is the one without:

The more I look at it now the more I prefer the colour one.

With the blue cast on the IR shots I think it's down to my post-processing since these are my first IRs, but I don't mind cos the cold frosty feel works quite well considering the subjects. This is how #2 came off the camera.

hoodmeister · 5 Mar 2006 at 00:01

all the birdies seem to have disapeared for your IR shot!

(Or was it just a long exposure?)

did you use a custom WB for your IR photos?

Gamefreak501 · 5 Mar 2006 at 07:27

Number two is my favourite out of those shots. I need to get an IR filter haha

MrScott · 5 Mar 2006 at 08:39

I think the birds were there all the time, the IR one is 15 sec but come to think of it I'm surprised they don't show up at all! I took the WB from some snow.

AdWright · 5 Mar 2006 at 09:34

lord_scott said:
I think the birds were there all the time, the IR one is 15 sec but come to think of it I'm surprised they don't show up at all! I took the WB from some snow.

There is a slight dark-ish blur on the IR shot where the birds are in the non-IR shot! They must've all been on the move!