Poet’s Walk – Side (IR)
This was actually shot a while back by using an infrared filter on the 40D. It is impossible to get anything out of it without resorting to the Adobe DNG Profiler (which I guess I’ve mentioned enough). But it is a good lesson about tossing away digital images because a bunch of shots that I thought were impossible to use when I was experimenting with sticking IR filters on the 40D may be somewhat worthwhile.
Another note that struck me recently, is that the sale of camera filters must be down to next to nothing with the advent of post-processing and digital cameras. And I think filters were always the big profit maker for camera sellers. I know that I have a ton of filters in various sizes in the closet that I never use anymore.
As the title suggests – this is not the main drag of Poet’s Walk. There are really three strips. Usually only the center one is photographed. I can imagine a great mural sized shot with all three strips connected. This is on the left looking towards Bethesda Fountain.
Hey, since I still shoot film, if you’re thinking about selling those filters, give me a shout, I might be able to take some off your hands.
Chris Klug
March 9, 2009 at 12:28 am
I guess I should make a list of them and post it here. That might make for fun reading. The one thing I can tell you is that they’re all either B+W or Heliopans.
Dave Beckerman
March 9, 2009 at 6:24 am
Tell ‘ya what… Go to the closet and take a couple of filters and shoot with them, make notes, then shoot without and do the work in PS then study and compare here on your blog. I’d be interested.
I can tell you that my Singh-Ray ND Grads on Camera can never be beat with post including LR’s Grad Filter. I’d like to see your view.
Tom Aellis
March 9, 2009 at 7:06 am
I’ll take your word for it. I never used grad. filters. I was mostly talking about color filters for b&w. and most of what I do is fairly quick, not posed, and hand-held.
Dave Beckerman
March 9, 2009 at 8:05 am
My work with grad filters I have never been able to repeat in PS, ’cause the skies are already too blown out by the time I get the image into PS. But, as you know, I’m kind of a dolt in PS.
But, hooray! My LR 2 upgrade should be arriving any day now.
Chris Klug
March 10, 2009 at 4:44 pm
And in my digital world, I can’t bring back detail that isn’t in the raw file; but if I am doing static nature stuff I can immediately see that the sky is blown; and it doesn’t happen often with the highlight priority feature on the 40D. And of course almost never with the IR stuff since the sky is already black or near black
Dave Beckerman
March 10, 2009 at 5:14 pm