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The Tyneside Experiments
Mon, Jun 15 2009 17:01
| Infrared, Black and White Photography, Tyneside, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead Millennium Bridge and Baltic Gallery.
The last few weeks, I have found myself making the most of our outstanding north-east weather to continue work on my forthcoming 'Perfect Northumberland' and 'Spirit of Northumberland' books. However, last week I decided to take a break from the projects to revisit one of my favourite city locations to experiment with a couple of pieces of equipment to hopefully fuel the creative process of capturing a photograph.
The first has been used to capture black and white images of the outstanding Newcastle upon Tyne & Gateshead Quayside, not a particularly cutting edge technique except that I have been using a special filter to block all visible light and to allow only infrared (IR) light to reach the sensor. I have been using this filter on my trusty Canon Eos 5D which is not designed for infrared photography so it has a factory fitted filter to reduce the amount of IR light received by the sensor! However, over a 30 second exposure enough IR light is still registered by the sensor to deliver a RAW file which can be converted in Photoshop or Lightroom to produce a pseudo-infrared image such as the two shown here.
River Tyne, Millennium and Tyne Bridges and Sage building.
I have also been using this technique whilst experimenting with a Lensbaby Composer which I am currently testing for a forthcoming review for this website. The small filter size thread of the Lensbaby has meant that I have had to utilise a high-tech method to attach my 77mm size Kood filter to the lens. A huge thank you to the inventors of Blu-Tack once more!
