Recent content by Keith Hollister

Recently visited the US Air Force National Museum in Dayton, OH. A huge, fantastic facility with an amazing collection of just about anything the USAF (or US Army Air Force before it) has ever flown or shot at. Spent about 6 hours there and barely scratched the surface. Highly recommended. Took...

Yup - a Shay

Thanks. I'm heading up to NE Ohio in a couple weeks to visit the Airstream factory and get some warranty issues taken care of on our new trailer (caravan in UK-speak). While I'm there, I'm planning on going down to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton to visit the USAF Museum there for some aircraft...

Thanks, Pete. Next time I visit our friends in Winston-Salem, I'm going to make another run at the place.

Yeah, it's the typeface used - the architect must have been a Fritz Lang fan

Thanks, Pete

590nm, what Life Pixel calls "Super Color"

Thanks, all.

Went out to play with the new X-Pro2 yesterday (needed an IR reprieve). This is wetlands preserve not too far from my house. XF90mm (not your normal landscape FOV), tripod (of course), polarizer and Lee grad ND on the sky. And a lot of fiddling in LR only - I actually decided to not use any of...

Obviously I could, but I tried that first and didn't like it. Oh well, there's always something that separates us from perfection.

So I tried a crop - ?? Secret Roses by Keith Hollister, on Flickr

Thanks, I didn't crop it, I framed it the way when I took it. I like the bit of asymmetry in the image along with the black empty space which balances the limited tones of the flowers. Clipping a tiny bit off the left-most rose was a mistake. I thought I framed it to avoid that, but suspect the...

And now for something completely different (NOT) ... another IR shot with the new toy. Roses as not seen with the naked eye, but with near infrared (hence the title). Secret Roses by Keith Hollister, on Flickr

If anyone is interested in the science behind this, this paper published by the European Journal of Physics is a good overview of how near-IR photography works. It is technical but not excessively geeky (of course I'm a retired electrical engineer, so I may not be a good arbiter of that)...

Thanks. IR photography is fascinating. In monochrome, you get that ghostly ethereal look (like with the old Kodak HIE film), but with the color stuff (where the filters allow more low frequency visible light to pass) it gets a lot more creative. It's sorta the Salvador Dali approach to...