The photo right out of the camera looks incredibly red.
I use Bibble to convert my raw files - during the conversion I set the white balance to “click white”, and select somewhere on the grass or a leaf. The idea is to remove the red tint from the light leaves in the image, but the sky can still have a dark red tint (in fact the red tint is usually desired). I have also seen posts where people suggest setting a custom white balance in camera to a photo with the frame full of grass, however I have not tried this
Continue reading ‘Infrared Workflow’
I was reading on a friends blog a while ago about air miles (I have forgotten who now), and wondered how many air miles I did last year…
According to kls2.com my flights last year totaled 23,000 air miles. Quite scary really, especially as I feel I didnt really fly much.
The one trip to Australia clocks up over 21,000 miles on its own.
One of the last annoyances with running 64bit linux is the fact that there are no java plugins available. I have 64bit firefox (well, iceweasel) with flash (using nspluginwrapper which allows the 32 bit version to work) but java is a no-go.
Turns out Sun has had a request open for this for 5 years: Bug ID: 4802695 Support Java Plug-in on 64-bit AMD and Intel
Given they are looking at it for java 1.7, I guess I had better move back to 32bit firefox until then. I cannot find any reference to getting nspluginwrapper working for java
A quick walk last weekend yielded some wonderful IR photos - I still can’t decide whether I prefer the red of the blue sky though
I got my replacement hot mirror filter, IR-cut glass, from lifepixel.com and following their instructions for a 300D
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Continue reading ‘Converting a Canon 300D to Infrared’
If you have $100,000 spare and like zoom lenses, you may want to think about this one:
The Mother of all Telephotos | B&H Photo Video
If you’re into bird watching, the holy grail would have to be the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, a huge (20″ tall with a 30″ wingspan), yet incredibly elusive woodpecker that despite reports of extinction, is spotted every now-and-then deep in the boonies of Florida and Arkansas. It’s also known as the ‘Lord G-d’ woodpecker because that’s what spotters have been known to blurt out - often accompanied by soiled trousers - when dive-bombed by one. ‘Lord G-d’ has also been exclaimed - minus the soiled trousers - by those seeing a Canon 1200/5.6L USM for the first time. At 36lbs, 33″ long and 9″ wide at the front element, calling this lens a ‘tele’ is like calling King Kong a monkey.
