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tony georgiadis

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Very nice picture...but... I bet if I tell you its a pity the tree reflection is "cut" you would agree. The clouds are fantastic, but it would have been more powerfull to get more dark. Basically I think you should have used a shorter focal length, and eventually a square format... just my humble view...
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Good image, but you need your sun shining onto the scene. Wrong time of day. The foliage should be lighter. If you bring the exposure down to take care of the clouds, the rest of the scene would be terrible.
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TOny, i really like the contrast of the image.

Did u use any filters attached or tuned in Photoshop. Kindly could you give some feedback about wht technique?

 

One thing i suggest is that i prefered to see all the reflection instead part of it!

 

Lovely image and well done

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Al thanks for your comment and I Agree with you the thing is that i have to work with the lens I have there's no interchangeable lens on that Sony I have a wide angle I can put over the lens but I get a lot of vignetting around due to the fact that I have 3 filters on my camera, I couldn't back up enough to get the whole trees and reflections I would have loved it too,but am restricted to that,and yes I needed the sun on those trees to get a whiter shade but we can't always control it.
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Stephen thanks for your comment,Am sure you will also be impressed and hooked once you give it a try.I don't know what camera you are shooting with....But I owe a Canon 300D,but i kept my Sony lately only for IR. The Sony's and Minolta's are very IR FRIENDLY... Am sure there must be some others maybe Olympus..

With the Sony I shoot on night mode and sometimes on manual but the only problem with manual is that it shouldn't be any wind whatsoever due to a shutter speed of 10 to 15 seconds you understand If the foliage on the tree is moving then you get blurred foliage wich is not so nice.yes you need a stack of filters to cut the light through....the best filters are Infrared filters which are expensive and very dark for instance the Hoya R72 since i couldn't find it easily I improvised my own filters I use a ND 8 FILTER = a Linear polarizer + a dark red filter I had back to the old days when I was shooting B&W To get that Dark sky....after shooting it in infra there's a procedure that has to be done in photosop it's not a photoshop effect.....Out of the camera the picture is green and it even looks a bit out of focus am referring on Sony's camera's ...but as soon as you start editing it, then you get the green foliage white.....and so on the best time to shoot is on a sunny day till 10.00 in the morning and after 17.00pm. you need enough light for infra ......yes, Now after editing it,you come out with an almost black& white photo of course the difference is that the green foliage is white but the contrast you get from the foliage turning white with the trunk of the tree is amazing....adjusting saturation and Hue you get different moods of colour....since it's shot in RGB.....Then according to your likings you're ready. I hope i was clear enough. There's so much to say but your best bet would be to go on your browser and type infrared photography,and you'll come up with lots of sites dealing with infra for Digital,and conventional photography,And last but not least i wanna thank all the guys down in Dpreview on the Sony forum where i started to get hooked on infrared.I hope i cleared up a few things for you. regards and best of luck.

Yes I agree that I would have loved too to have all of the reflections but i wish that Sony had a more wide angle...

Regards

 

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