New Pics!

[quasigeostrophy]

Just posted 3 new photos on the web site for DKA Productions:

• December Sunrise - Fishers, Indiana - Taken early one morning last fall.
  
• Ipswich Old South Cemetery (Infra-Red) - Ipswich, Massachusetts - An IR version of this photo.
  
• Multnomah Falls - Columbia River Gorge - Taken with the 4x5 view camera in August, 2001 (yes, I'm slow at scanning some of my older stuff).

Comments

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

These are lovely. I especially like the infra-red effects - I think there used to be an entire book of "haunted places" filmed that way. How does the infra-red work, exactly?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I love IR effects, both film and "faux" (digital). IR is done two different ways (both of which I've used):

1. IR film is a black & white film that is more sensitive into the infra-red range of the spectrum, overlapping that end of visible light. Greens become washed out and white and blues become very dark. I have an IR shot (of which I need to find the negative to scan it - it was taken almost 20 years ago) of my parents' back yard that looks like an ice storm at night when in fact I took it at 1:30 on a sunny summer afternoon.

2. (I used this method on the photo I posted.) In Photoshop, the Channel Mixer function allows you to mix the red, green, and blue values of an image. You can select an option to mix to grayscale (which is what I did). I pulled the blue values way into the negative, pumped up the green values in the positive direction, and increased the highlights a bit with a little red positive values (if the three numbers add up to 100 you get an image that is about the same tonality as the original color image, but in gray scale). For an IR effect, the numbers don't quite add up to 100, plus I then added some noise and a touch of blur to simulate the grainier, glowing quality of IR film.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

And thanks for the compliment, BTW! :-)

[circumspectly.livejournal.com]

the first one...the sunrise...feels almost *holy* in some odd way. i like the other two as well, but the sunrise really speaks.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

the sunrise...feels almost *holy* in some odd way.

An interesting descriptor I wouldn't have immediately conjured up, but thank you. :-)

[gasslight.livejournal.com]

Those're great, Dan. I like the cemetary both ways. In the non-IR shot, I like the way some of the stones look blue and black because of the shade.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :-) I like both, too. I'm just amazed I didn't catch an 11 year old boy or 6 year old girl in every shot I tried to take, as my friends' kids were running around in front of me.

[gasslight.livejournal.com]

I'm glad...they would have had a totally different feel to them.