Infra Red Roman Holidays

[tomcat]

These are some of the IR pics taken in Rome with the E-300 during my trip to Italy.


Teatro dell' Opera


Colosseum


Colosseum


Piazza della Repubblica

[tomcat]

Another set of pics...


Fontana di Trevi


Giardino del Quirinale


Giardino del Quirinale


Giardino del Quirinale

[Catalyst]

Nice pics But pretty noisy..what ISO did u use? Handheld?

[tomcat]

Originally Posted by Catalyst Nice pics But pretty noisy..what ISO did u use? Handheld?

Most were taken at ISO 200 with a couple at ISO 100. They were all handheld with shutter speeds of 0.5 to 0.62s. As expected, those taken at ISO 200 were a bit more noisy than those taken at ISO 100, especially when they were pushed to reveal more details in the shadowed areas.

Amazingly, I found that I could actually compose through the viewfinder with the E-300 if the sunlight is bright enough.

[teerex]

The noise is tolerable. In fact IMO good to have some noise as it simulates the grainy effect of film IR.

Nice shots Tomcat Enjoyed looking at your other posts of your Roman holiday.

[vortex]

nice shots!!!

[data1ore]

Shouldn't you have used a tripod at those shutter speeds? No IS, so handholding at those shutters is imho a no-no, especially IR photography.

[tomcat]

Originally Posted by data1ore Shouldn't you have used a tripod at those shutter speeds? No IS, so handholding at those shutters is imho a no-no, especially IR photography.

Well, of course I would love to.... if I was in Singapore. But I'm not and I don't want to travel to Europe lugging a tripod along. Also, we are rushing from one location to another as we have only one day to see all the sights. There is no way anyone would use a tripod in such a situation, don't you think? I count my blessings that I could manage to achieve sub-second shutter speeds to get these shots with the E-300.

[faa]

cool.. this is a situation when those IS and VR systems come in real useful..

[chancy]

Hello Tomcat,

I enjoyed the perspective you've choosen for the buildings, strong presence of lines / curves yet strangely uncluttered. I find the softness in the images from the low shutterspeeds work well with the surrealistic effect of IR.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

[tomcat]

Originally Posted by chancy Hello Tomcat, I enjoyed the perspective you've choosen for the buildings, strong presence of lines / curves yet strangely uncluttered. I find the softness in the images from the low shutterspeeds work well with the surrealistic effect of IR. Thanks for sharing. Cheers,

Hi Chancy,
Thanks for the comments. Though I would love to take full credit for the resulting looks in these IR pics as well the other holiday pics, I feel that quite a lot of it seemed to be due to the distortions at the wide-end (14mm) of the 14-45mm kit lens, especially when used in the vertical format. While such distortions would not have been very welcome in human photography, they seem to work somehow for these kind of architectural pics, especially for such huge and grand structures by exaggerating and magnifying their visual impact. Are there so much distortions at the wide end of the ZD 14-54mm lens, I wonder?

With digital IR photography, there are so many factors that could affect the eventual looks of the IR pics that I feel like I'm coming full circle back to the uncertainties of film photography as I really don't know for sure what the final results would be like until I have post-processed them back at home.