RPS PhotoWalk - Stowe - Mono Infrared

Following on from yesterday some Infrared Photos processed to monochrome.

RPS PhotoWalk - Stowe - Colour Infrared

'Our Jonathan' organised a PhotoWalk for the Royal Photographic Society in Early July to the National Trust Gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire. A really beautiful garden to visit.

I decided to take my infrared camera, in fact Jonathan was encouraging the visitors to try out IR Photography. It was a beautiful Sunny day with some real dramatic skies enhanced by the infrared treatment.

I am finding that my taste in these false colour photographs are lead towards images where the Blue and Red channels are swapped in photoshop, Foliage becomes 'red' and the skies 'blue. Quite a lot of difference comes from the processing and the saturation of the resulting colours.

This is the first of two posts, the next will be on Mono Infrared photos taken at Stowe.

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Intentional camera movement and 'messing about in photoshop' - Good times :)

copy and repeat in Photoshop of a view looking up into the trees

From the previous photo - I added eyes and mouth from a sculpture I took on a visit to the V&A museum in London recently (post to come)..

Intentional Camera Movement

Intentional Camera Movement

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Whilst walking around Stowe Gardens I found the Chinese House. If it had been a few weeks later than this 'exhibit' would have been wrapped up for the winter to protect it.

Such a lot of interesting detail, lovely paintings, weathered woodwork - great textures.

The first shot shows the Chinese House in its entirety, The rest where taken with my Canon 100mm L series Macro lens.

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This post shows what I did with InfraRed Photography at Stowe Gardens. I do not have a converted camera so I use the R72 filter. This means that I have to use a tripod as exposure times are in the 30 second region. Not that that worries me - it tends to slow me down and think about composition and technique.