Hitchcock reloaded: the Swiss syndrome
Winter seagulls looking for (and finding) food on the shores of Lake Zurich. Click on each picture to magnify.
ISO Lo1 on D800 and ND filter to catch the flood wave
The heavy rain of the previous days rolled down the mountains and reached the city centre. The black wave quickly ran beneath the fist bridge …
… and went on shifting rapidly between the houses.
… almost unnoticed …
… as the river bed did not give it way to visit the streets and banks and pubs of the old town.
Everything turned back to normality, or better, it did not even change from normality.
Except for the neutral density filter being removed from the lens and ISO set back from Lo1 to 100.
D800 pictures from outer (infrared) space
On hi-radiation days we use to meet here on the pier, if the black tide did not cover everything.
The older ones prefer to hide in the black shadows of the wide reflecting trees.
We know that one day we will go back where we belong to. When we will understand the meaning of this mechanical giant, we will finally go home.
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The artistic side of infrared photography with a 850 nm filter and the Nikon 50 mm f/1.4 G
Enjoy some views of the Botanical Garden of Zurich through the 850 nm infrared filter I recently got.
These pictures were shot without focusing through the IR filter but removing it, focusing and remounting it.
They are quite soft because of the AF system calibrated not for IR light but for visible light…
… nevertheless, these pictures are still giving some thrills, don’t you think?
Click pictures to magnify. Btw, plants reflect IR light, that’s why they are so white…
Pure infrared (IR) pictures (850 nm) on Nikon D800? Yes, we can!
Some time ago I doubted IR shooting could work on D800, having tested my single (!) wavelength filters. Just to be sure, I got a cheap 850 nm filter and tested it on my D800 today: and it worked!
The reason being, every wavelength above 850 nm goes through this filter, while single wavelengths in the IR spectrum are too weak to be detected.
Pictures can be converted to black and white only, no blue skies, due to complete absence of red green and blue. Here below the procedure how to work with pure infrared pictures on D800:
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