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Thanks guys !!!

I think I finally have an Infra Red photo that I really like. This one was edited in photoshop to bring out some texture to a fairly flat shot. Tell me what you think. And, per Bryan M's suggestion, the same train taken with a color camera. It was taken about 15 minutes earlier.

No, I didn't bring a regular camera with me that day. I wish I did.

By "normal" mode I will assume "what it looks like out of Camera". The camera can only take IR shots since the filter covering the sensor has been replaced with an IR one. Directly out of the camera they always look bad since the Bayer(sp) filter is trying to get it right by assuming a normal color shot. The white balance is always off. These pictures always need lots of work. If you set the camera to black and white, they come out fairly well since that is the IR standard. Anyway, not for everybody. I traded something and got the camera so I'm experimenting with it. Here is the out of camera shot.

Oh crap moment for sure!! How did that happen?

Still playing with Infrared photography. This one is what is refered to as a false color shot. I swaped the red and blue color channels and played around to get some interesting color into a regular IR shot. This storm is probably the same one that Dunefreak got the sunset picture of but a few hours earlier while still in California.

Golden Dunes

What is this but an emotional diatribe to “please understand us” without helping our cause at all. If anything, If I were anti off-road, I would use this as ammo to get everything closed down. I understand the authors’ intention and respect that but to try and state there is some sort of symbiotic relationship between racer and spectator to the point that all this was just an unfortunate accident is nuts. Bryan M’s post above was 100% correct and accurate; he should have used that instead.

I'm probably no help to you but I get mine from Willow Springs Raceway 4 miles from home. VP 110 leaded and VP 100 unleaded at a drive up pump. Either is $8 per gallon. If you have a O2 sensor, it won't live as long with leaded.

The rest of this week there will be the Perseid meteor showers. Best view time is after midnight (bummer). I don't think I'll be staying up late for this but for those that do, look in the northeast sky away from city lights and you should have a pretty good show. The moon won't be washing them out this year. I have found setting my camera on manual with an 5.6 Fstop and about a 3 to 5 minute shutter works well for catching them and you will get star trails. Using a wide angle lens helps. If you have the north star in the left side of your frame, the stars will rotate around it making a cool shot. If you go longer on the shutter, the trails will be even cooler. If you don't want star trails, go smallest Fstop (lowest number) you can and no more than about 20 seconds on the shutter and hope a meteor zings by. Wish I didn't have to work, the show last year was cool.

Cool pics! That stadium ramp looks even steeper than on TV.

Modify my fuel tank to locate the sump in the middle instead of the end - Done. New fuel pump - not sure if it was part of my original problem or not, but just to be sure I got a new one and need to install it. I'll keep my old one as a spare. I think the fuel tank fix solved my problem. Done, and it DID fix my problem. Didn't know how bad the old one was! Take tranny to shop. Not broke, but I don't know its age or history and figured it might be due. Done, needed new second gear and dog rings. Replace my rear view mirror with something that I can use. The one I have sucks. Repack CV's Done. Fix the slowly leaking right paddle. Install a tach - I have no idea when to shift other than feel or hitting the rev limiter. Not a problem really since my engine has no rods to throw,, Rotary. I have a nice tach with shift light on my V8 car, I'm gonna steal it. Stole tach off of V8 car then realised it only goes to 8k, I shift above that. Get one of those bling chrome make me faster green sticker plates to mount on the car. Done. Fab up something to hold my camera and seal the sand out. I've been using trash bags.

Nice! :hatdance:

That looks really good!

"And now for something completely different", My first Infrared photo. Taken with a Nikon D40 modified with an IR sensor, no filter. I'm still not 100% sure of what I'm doing but it looks cool. Can't wait to try it at Dumont!

Looks like a Chenoweth to me. But thats really a guess. Hillshooter setup. She must be an awesome girlfriend!

Has anyone on here done or does IR photography? If so, I have questions.

Love the motorcycle jumping, wish I could go. Take pictures.

Here is another technique I used. Long exposure, wait a little while, then walk over and place a blue light on the obelisk. Since it was a long exposure, I wasn't in one place long enough for the camera to see me. I'm on the fence whether I like this shot or not. What do you guys think?? Oh yea, one of my bosses at work is Japanese. He liked the shots and put my mind to ease that I was respectful and not violating any cultural customs. Even more interesting, his father was in an internment camp during the war. The translation on the stone roughly is "Monument to console the souls of the dead". Forgot to mention the Obelisk is at the Manzanar Japanese internment camp in Owens Valley.

Here are two interesting shots that used the same technique. The first is two long exposures each light painted slightly different. Using the cameras overlay function, I placed them together to form one shot. No software was used, just the camera. The rock looks like a tug boat. The second is a long exposure overlayed on a flash shot. The flash was needed to freeze the subject but you can still see the long exposure effects in the quads flag. These were done on a Nikon camera. I don't know if Cannon has this function. This could also be accomplished in photoshop using layers.

Thanks!! Sometimes that’s the hardest part. What I do is constantly change the exposure compensation and find a happy medium. Usually the sun will always be blown out but you can find a point were its ok in that situation. I also will use a neutral gradient filter on occasion to even further prevent the sun from washing out the rest of the shot. It’s a pain though, I use it handheld and need a third arm. You can use software to fix these problems later but that will introduce noise. Ultimately it’s a matter of balance that’s acceptable to the photographer.

Sometimes I just can't resist getting a shot of a hot chick in a red dress. She is a little large for me though.

Spent the day in Owens Valley yesterday. Thought I would share a few interesting shots. I stitched together about 7 shots from my cell phone to make 1 panorama of Olancha dunes. Not my favorite sunset but I cranked up the fstop as high as could to accentuate the rays from the sun. That was the whole idea for this shot. This was a long exposure with some light painting of the obelisk. I wish I knew what it said. Since it is located in a cemetery, I was going for respectful prominence by centering it in the shot and placing the camera in about a knee high position. I didn't go to long cause I wanted the background visible but dark. This shot was moderately edited. I used a fill flash since the side I wanted was in the shade. Still, the cameras metering, didn't read my mind and made the whole thing a little darker than I wanted. Most of the editing is to bring the lower half brighter without over cooking the upper. It is a cool sign so I wanted to save the picture.

A few times I get in my truck the thermometer stuck in the air cond vent says 155. No shade to park under here at work.

Dune "Magic" (this is a one shot long exposure, no photoshop)