Touring Infra Red
They are all top class, but the reflections pair are the ones that stand out for me - simple, strong and dark, I suspect you've got enough in your library to make a whole Reflections presentation
Keep em coming
My personal favourite on a couple of views has stayed the same No.4. I also really like No.5 I would guess this would work in IR or as a "normal" shot.
I remember No.15, think I might have commented on it before, great image anyhow.
Oh! nearly forgot Blackpool beach, stunner!
Keep on keeping on with the great work.
Nigel
2, 6, and 8 pop for me,
I think 2 is very clever and would be my top pick
John, thanks for thoughts on composition and processing... very useful... funnily enough, I very nearly did put a set together based purely on reflections... but ended up spreading them across a number of different subject areas instead... might have a look at it again...
Nigel, yes, interesting re no.5... had taken the IR camera out for a spin, but came across plenty of things that weren’t, as you say, necessarily typical IR shots, so used what I had in my hand at the time...
Derek, yes, also took a colour version of no. 2, but prefer this IR version on balance...
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1/3/4/5 are the stand outs for me.
A question now on IR. Never done it but what differentiates it from simply high contrast b+w ?
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Re. IR, an interesting point you raise... there isn’t a huge amount of difference between how I tend to process these and high contrast b&w... the main difference being I suppose
A) the starting point (whiter whites and blacker blacks), and
B) foliage (or any living organic matter) showing up pure white
You can of course go the channel swapping false colour route, but having tried that a fair bit myself I’ve yet to come up with anything I’ve been completely happy with... so have tended to stick with the b&w route...
There’ll be plenty round these parts that can explain the physics/science of it I’m sure, but that tends to be my experience of the broad application of it...
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Philip
Both reflections are very well seen, the first more mysterious than the second (almost a light-painting image), and they fit in perfectly (IMO) with the more urban set.
Of which I very well remember #15 - everything I said about that one previously still stands today. Also, looking through them yet another time, I find that it has found its counterpart of sorts with #4. They'd work great side by side, I think.
Interesting that your posts at times seem to gather images of a more eclectic nature than at others. It certainly forces me to look at things differently, and perhaps pay more attention to what is going on between individual photographs (even if I have a tendency to sort them anyway)...
Philip: ah, yes, well spotted on the mini-series front...
Serge: thanks also for taking the time to consider these so carefully... much appreciated as ever... hadn't seen the connection between 4 and 15, but have now... thank you...
Interesting point you make re the eclectic nature of some of my output here, particularly in terms I suspect of what I tend to put together with what... the reality of the way I've tended to take quite a lot of my pics over the last couple of years is to take my camera pretty much everywhere I go... for work, that can be quite random in terms of venues/places/locations... so I tend to wander around and take photographs of whatever catches my eye... or have a think about places which might be near where I happen to find myself that I think might be of interest, and then head out and have a look... sometimes I'll discover a theme whilst I'm out and about and then shoot specifically for it (the concrete and man vs nature IR series that I posted a few months ago wld be gd examples)... other times I'll go through what I've taken after the fact and extract themes from it (a lot of which will have been sort of in the background of my thinking, but not foreground, when taking the pics)... originally I thought of posting a series of "postcards" from each of the places that I'd been, but quickly started seeing themes emerging above and beyond just location, so headed in that direction instead...
Cheers both...
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12 years
1. Sandwich Bay
2. Reflections, Birmingham Canal Basin
3. Reculver, Kent
4. Winterton, Norfolk
5. Canal, Birmingham
6. Park, Bristol
7. Sculpture, Trentham Park, Stoke
8. Winterton, Norfolk
9. Canal, Birmingham
10. Winterton, Norfolk
11. Manchester City Centre
12. Dog walker, Blackpool
13. Potteries, Stoke
14. Reflection, Deansgate Locks
15. Manchester City Centre (have posted this one before, but liked it as part of this set)
All thoughts, comments, observations etc gratefully received as ever...
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