Laurice Loc: Michigan

I saw this beautiful aging statue covered with ivy and had to shoot it. What a story of life and love lost it must hold.

Travis Loc: Wetumpka, Alabama

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Laurice Loc: Michigan

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Travis Loc: Wetumpka, Alabama

Really good shots. I love the B&W one. Something graveyards done in black and white!!!!

EricLPT Loc: Jonesborough TN

Laurice,

If you REALLY want to capture cemeteries for maximum 'WOW Factor', let me recommend B&W Infrared photography. In my opinion, and that is just my opinion, B&W IR is best for cemeteries.

Bonaventure Cemetery, near Savannah GA, has many photo ops like the first image that hangs on my wall as a 12x16 print.

Oakland Cemetery in Atalanta GA offers the second photo and many others.

Investigate IR photography in general and B&W IR in particular at this website:

http://irphotocom.proboards.com/index.cgi?

Have fun and let me know what you think,

Eric

Travis Loc: Wetumpka, Alabama

WOW!!! Those are excellent shots!!!!

MamaJah-Jah Loc: Wisconsin

Love the shots!

Laurice Loc: Michigan

Eric, these shots are really good. The clarity is outstanding. Thank you for sharing. I can see I have a lot of work to do.

turp77 Loc: Connecticut, Plainfield

Noon day shots are hard to capture, early morning or before sunset are best. But don't pass up any shot because the light isnt right. The head shot with the Ivy I really like. Nice job remember always have fun. Thank you for sharing them with us.

turp77 Loc: Connecticut, Plainfield

I love IR

MerlinsDaughter

Terrific subject matter. There are some exposure and composition issues that distract. I would like to have seen some different angles. The long shot the subject is a little under exposed. This could be adjusted digitally with a fill flash effect and exposure adjustment. Yet better to be a little under exposed than over. It is easier to lighten shadows that exist than trying to create shadows.
The flash in the close up gives it a little too much like a snapshot look.
This is great subject matter. Next time perhaps shoot from many different angles. This might have been very interesting as a low angle shot looking up into the face of the statue.
Still very nice work.

MerlinsDaughter

These are really nice shots. I love the one of all the headstones.

condor

How do you do your IR shots? Do you have a special camera or do you use filters? Is special editing required?

EricLPT Loc: Jonesborough TN

Condor,

IR is done with special cameras converted, or modded, to 'see' in near IR, not true IR or those thermal cameras, those ave very expensive. Some non-modded cameras have a weak 'hot mirror', which is an IR filter built in to most cameras as too much IR coming in can make photos less sharp. My favorite unmodded IR camera is the Olympus C-2100 UZ or UZI as it is known by its owners. It can be had on ebay for about 100 bucks. Screw a Hoya R72 filter on an UZI and you're done. You can now shoot handheld IR. Most unmodded cameras require a tripod and multi-second exposures, somewhere between 3 and 30 seconds. You can't see the image through the viewfinder because it is too dark, so you have to compose your shot, then screw on the filter then play with exposure times, a real pain. With an UZI or any of the Oly C-2xxx series, you can just shoot handheld, a HUGE advantage. I prefer the UZI because it takes great visible light photos too. It has a 10x IS lens, and 1-2 MB file size so you can put a lot of photos in a small space on your hard drive. It is my most used camera, I just love it.

Once you get your IR capable camera this website can help you with lots of great info and friendly helpful people:

http://irphotocom.proboards.com/index.cgi

Have fun and let me know how it works out for you,

Eric

Kathy1632 Loc: Virginia

I just joined and am impressed by this forum. There is so much I have to learn. These images are truly outstanding and inspiring. I have a Nikon D7000 which I love - is there any adaptability to being able to do IR photography which I'd love to learn.

Thank you and I look forward to exploring more threads!