Back from the Tetons

Greetings everyone. I just returned from a 3-day solo (no kids!) car camping trip to Grand Teton National Park. The wildflowers were the worst anyone had ever seen and the sunsets were non-existent but I managed to take a few respectable photographs. A handful of my DSLR shots can be seen here, while the 4x5s and 6x17s will have to wait until processing and scanning. I slapped a Hoya RM72 infrared filter on my lens at Oxbow bend one afternoon during flat lighting and was pleased with the results. After this trip I've decided this may be a nice way to kill time during the midday hours on sunny days.

Sony Alpha, Tamron 17-50 2.8 lens (all images)

Thanks for looking!

Brett

Looks like you had a productive trip, nice IR shots!

Looks like you came away with some nice stuff anyway! The magenta in this shot is great! I like the infrared shots, especially the first one. Good job and congrats!

Those IR shots at Oxbow Bend are superb! And I usually don't care for IR.

I love your IR shots Brett. Looks like the Alpha makes for a good IR camera. What sort of exposure times were you dealing with?

Despite the lackluster sunsets, you still managed to come home with a nice portfolio of images. The sunrise shots are really nice - especially the Moulton barn shot - and the IRs are all outstanding.

Ya, I'm not usually a big fan of IR images, except as a sort of novelty. But yours are really nice! Well done. And I'm really diggin' the color of the Schwabacher Landing shot here.

Very nice series Brett.

I'm really surprised how well the IR worked on the Alpha too. Very cool. For not having great light, you sure came home with some good stuff.

Mel-

Great photos!

Thanks for your comments everyone! Regarding the IR, exposure times on my camera are about 10 stops slower than without the filter. Most exposures in bright midday sunlight were in the 4 second range. I was quite lucky to have such still conditions - no motion is evident in either the clouds or foliage. After playing around with the filter a few times I've learned that the best images are those with a reasonably dark blue sky, prominent clouds, and of course lots of foliage. Water also helps. I've attached an unedited version of one of the Oxbow Bend IR images so you can see what the original looks like. All I did in Photoshop was select monochrome and 100% red channel using the channel mixer and adjust the levels sliders to taste.

Those IR shots are too cool.. especially the first one. I think what's nice is that it's not immediately obvious (at least to me) that these are IR shots... they could be just regular b/w, perhaps with bright autumn foliage. In comparison, many IR shots are so obviously wacky and inverted.

Sweet images, Brett! The IR's are awesome, and like Jack said, they look like autumn b&w's. I'm not very familiar with IR, but these are quite good.

the IR and posted shot are niiiiice! gj

Lovin' the IR shots Brett. Looks like you had a good time in my favorite place on earth.