Apr 9, 2008 | Robert Bittner
Congrats on the "Editor's Choice"
Been there only once myself......
Love the Portfolio - You have a good eye and
good talents behind that eyepiece !
revybawb@gmail.com
Apr 9, 2008 | Bill King
I really like your work with color digital infrared! Your portfolio is very nice, especially the flower images. Thanks for commenting on a number of my images! Congratulations on the Editors Choice selection. Bill
Apr 9, 2008 | James Kiefer
Robert and Bill, thank you very much. I love IR photography, but I had been bogged down by noisy images and color artifacting. I switched over to an entirely LAB color mode workflow, and all of the woes disappeared. Gotta love Photoshop. Jim
Apr 10, 2008 | Anne Gaal
Congratulations on your image being selected as Editor's Choice! Didn't even know there WAS such as thing as COLOR digital IR. Now I gotta go try it... :-)
Apr 10, 2008 | James Kiefer
Thanks Anne. For digital infrared, depending on the make and model of your camera, there are two routes. The easiest by far is to have one of your cameras converted for IR use only. I converted a Canon 20D. This gets you IR with normal exposures and no filters required. The tougher way to go is to buy an IR filter of the right thread size for your lens. Don't scrimp here, get a Hoya or B+W. With the camera on a tripod, compose the shot and then put the filter on. Tricky part is the exposure. Canon models block most of the IR light, so ISO 800 and *30 sec* (note, not 1/30) at f/8 is a good starting point. Nikons are more permissive, and exposures on the order of 1/2 - 5 sec can work. Post process is a matter of taste. The bridge shot here is more or less SOOC. The two tree shots required a fair amount of PS magic, but none of it is too tough. Several walkthroughs exist on the web. Happy shooting, Jim
Apr 10, 2008 | Mary Ann Bridge
Jim, Yes It's hard to have a photo chosen for National Geographic's Daily Dozen, but it's easy to join, to become a member.
The link is: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/
Register and submit a photo on the "Your Shot" link and they automatically give you a web page of 100 photos. It's a good site with a lot of links for information. Be sure to use a tag for each photo (a few words of description to track it), that's the only way you can find where your portfolio is placed within the thousands of members. But each time you submit a new photo you get rolled to number one, first page on "My Shot" where the portfolios start. It's a new feature, so maybe one day they will enable us to search by artist's name. We can vote for our favorites published on the Daily Dozen every day; it helps to get someone into the magazine. I'll miss seeing your photo on the Editor's Choice next week. It's a stunning image. You know a lot about photography. Try NG, maybe this one will also make it to the Daily Dozen. NG chooses two photos a month to publish in the magzine. My kid brother has actually been offered two good-paying shoots simply by mentioning that he has a web page on National Geographic. Laugh! How do some of the artists on NAPP include their e-mail address on their portfolio page?
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Apr 9, 2008 | Robert Bittner
Congrats on the "Editor's Choice" Been there only once myself...... Love the Portfolio - You have a good eye and good talents behind that eyepiece ! revybawb@gmail.com
Apr 9, 2008 | Bill King
I really like your work with color digital infrared! Your portfolio is very nice, especially the flower images. Thanks for commenting on a number of my images! Congratulations on the Editors Choice selection. Bill
Apr 9, 2008 | James Kiefer
Robert and Bill, thank you very much. I love IR photography, but I had been bogged down by noisy images and color artifacting. I switched over to an entirely LAB color mode workflow, and all of the woes disappeared. Gotta love Photoshop. Jim
Apr 10, 2008 | Anne Gaal
Congratulations on your image being selected as Editor's Choice! Didn't even know there WAS such as thing as COLOR digital IR. Now I gotta go try it... :-)
Apr 10, 2008 | James Kiefer
Thanks Anne. For digital infrared, depending on the make and model of your camera, there are two routes. The easiest by far is to have one of your cameras converted for IR use only. I converted a Canon 20D. This gets you IR with normal exposures and no filters required. The tougher way to go is to buy an IR filter of the right thread size for your lens. Don't scrimp here, get a Hoya or B+W. With the camera on a tripod, compose the shot and then put the filter on. Tricky part is the exposure. Canon models block most of the IR light, so ISO 800 and *30 sec* (note, not 1/30) at f/8 is a good starting point. Nikons are more permissive, and exposures on the order of 1/2 - 5 sec can work. Post process is a matter of taste. The bridge shot here is more or less SOOC. The two tree shots required a fair amount of PS magic, but none of it is too tough. Several walkthroughs exist on the web. Happy shooting, Jim
Apr 10, 2008 | Mary Ann Bridge
Jim, Yes It's hard to have a photo chosen for National Geographic's Daily Dozen, but it's easy to join, to become a member. The link is: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/ Register and submit a photo on the "Your Shot" link and they automatically give you a web page of 100 photos. It's a good site with a lot of links for information. Be sure to use a tag for each photo (a few words of description to track it), that's the only way you can find where your portfolio is placed within the thousands of members. But each time you submit a new photo you get rolled to number one, first page on "My Shot" where the portfolios start. It's a new feature, so maybe one day they will enable us to search by artist's name. We can vote for our favorites published on the Daily Dozen every day; it helps to get someone into the magazine. I'll miss seeing your photo on the Editor's Choice next week. It's a stunning image. You know a lot about photography. Try NG, maybe this one will also make it to the Daily Dozen. NG chooses two photos a month to publish in the magzine. My kid brother has actually been offered two good-paying shoots simply by mentioning that he has a web page on National Geographic. Laugh! How do some of the artists on NAPP include their e-mail address on their portfolio page?
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