Richmond Park

Early Summer and with the fresh vegetation, so it is time for a little Infrared Photography, in nearby Richmond Park.

Digital InfraRed

The weather for some of the days last week was ideal for InfraRed photography, at least as far as foliage is concerned - blue skies with a little cloud, bright sunshine, and fairly freah vegetation. Here are a few more pictures - digitial, not film. The first is in Green Park in central London - it was good to get away from the traffic and noise of the city whilst photographing the trees.

The second and third pictures are in the local Richmond Park. I dont have to go too far unless I want to.

Some More InfraRed

Out yesterday morning to the park, tryting for some more InfraRed photos. For most of the last week the mornings have been quite sunny, early on, before clouding over later on - and as I wanted some blue skies (which turn dark in black & white infrared) it was as early start.

Here are some more of my digital efforts -

 

An issue I'm finding with this technique - see my previous post for this - is that my exposures are a few seconds. Which means if there is a wind I'm getting movement/blurring in some leaves and clouds. Perhaps I could make it feature ?

I also shot a roll of Rollei InfraRed film - all 36 exposures. Must get around to processing it. One day.

InfraRed

Back in my film days I used to use Kodak HIE (black & white infrared film) - and liked it. Not for every day use, but probably for some landscape work when it is at its most most effective, at this time of year, ie late spring/early summer when the vegetation is freshest and reflecting lots of infrared light.

Unfortunately HIE film is no longer being manufactured (shame !) and so I'm trying the Rollei version - there is a roll in my film camera now (and more awaiting usage are stored in my fridge) - more on that later. I'll have to get back into film processing and I'm not looking forward to that.

Anyways, in the meantime I'm trying to get an infrared effect with my digital camera. I've got a Hoya R72 filter - its almost black (VERY dark red, you can't see through it with naked eye), with a screw thread. This makes for quite long exposure times - in seconds - so my tripod is getting good use, as hand holding the camera is not on.


Here are some initial - digitial - results.

 I had to do some processing in Photoshop later with the Raw digital files - but nothing like the processing needed if my source files were ordinary colour, and the effect I'm getting is closer to what I want. So far, think I prefer HIE. But I'll be taking some more digitial over the next few weeks and trying out what Rollei has to offer. As I said earlier, more on that later.