Keef in ColourOK, something a bit different. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that people were boosting some Infrared (IR) photographs around the Fediverse, which looked absolutely amazing. This pinged a deep memory that I did once buy a digital IR camera, but it was towards the end of my film photography phase so wasn't what I was interested in, and also around that time I just .. stopped taking photos for a while - I think I'd run out of creativity. If you know me, you'll have realised that of course I still have the camera, but I never really got to grips with it.
It's a Fujifilm Finepix IS-1 which is a very weird thing, it was a super-zoom "bridge" camera from 2007, with a 10.7x zoom and a 1cm macro (!), a 9MP sensor but no IR filter. Apparently it was designed for specialistic forensic and medical use? I have no idea, I bought it secondhand sometime about 12 years ago, shot a few very bad pictures with it (I had no idea about IR photography!) then totally forgot about it.
Anyway, I saw those IR images and thought, maybe I should have a go? So I grabbed the camera, stuck a 590nm filter on it and kept it with me all weekend. I probably should have done a bit more research/thinking but hey, life is short. If I had, I would have set the camera to take RAW pics, and I would have spent more time worrying about white balance, but hey ho, here we are, with some slightly overcompressed JPEGs.
As you might be aware, without changing the white balance, they come out of the camera *very* red, and you have to swap channels and mess with levels and balance to get anything decent out of them. I've not rescued many of them yet, but this one (of St John's church in Swalecliffe) seemed to come out OK I think.
#infrared #ir #photography #fujifilm #is1 #church
It's a Fujifilm Finepix IS-1 which is a very weird thing, it was a super-zoom "bridge" camera from 2007, with a 10.7x zoom and a 1cm macro (!), a 9MP sensor but no IR filter. Apparently it was designed for specialistic forensic and medical use? I have no idea, I bought it secondhand sometime about 12 years ago, shot a few very bad pictures with it (I had no idea about IR photography!) then totally forgot about it.
Anyway, I saw those IR images and thought, maybe I should have a go? So I grabbed the camera, stuck a 590nm filter on it and kept it with me all weekend. I probably should have done a bit more research/thinking but hey, life is short. If I had, I would have set the camera to take RAW pics, and I would have spent more time worrying about white balance, but hey ho, here we are, with some slightly overcompressed JPEGs.
As you might be aware, without changing the white balance, they come out of the camera *very* red, and you have to swap channels and mess with levels and balance to get anything decent out of them. I've not rescued many of them yet, but this one (of St John's church in Swalecliffe) seemed to come out OK I think.
#infrared #ir #photography #fujifilm #is1 #church
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