front door fun

[gtramctram]

Hey, walk out your front door and take a pic. what do you look at every day and yet do not really see it for what it is?

Here's mine.

 

[gtramctram]

hope this doesn't offend anyone because it doesn't really pertain to Canon cameras, unless of course your pic was taken by one.

 

[smiling gecko]

wow!! what a view you have there. the colors are very nice, as are the shadows on the mountains. the trees in the foreground are a good framing device and serve as a reference to the expanse behind them. thanks for sharing.
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[gtramctram]

pic stuff

pic stuff

Hey gecko,
You have one don't you? Everyone has a front door.
Give it a shot.

 

[mjflory]

There's a beautiful house across the street from us, complete with lots of detail that's great for test shots. Of course how I see it depends on how I'm feeling -- colorful, or, well, not blue, maybe a little more infrared.

 

[gtramctram]

B and W amazing

B and W amazing

MJ.
the color was good but the black and white was eerily beautiful. I'm going to try that with the digital photoshop.

This could be an outstanding thread with participation.

 

[gtramctram]

another

another

MJ, just a different look at the same mountain.

 

[pvdhaar]

This is what I see when I step outside to go to work.. Basically it's 6:30, and there's nothing much to see..

 

[mjflory]

MJ.
the color was good but the black and white was eerily beautiful. I'm going to try that with the digital photoshop.

Well, I've got a confession here. Those weren't rangefinder shots (though I've got some RF shots of the same view that I've got to scan) but rather tests of one or another of the digital cameras I've got sitting around here. But they did fit the subject of the thread so well that I couldn't resist...

Quite a few digital cameras are fairly sensitive to the infrared range of the spectrum. (Some early ones are especially sensitive, as it was only later that manufacturers realized that IR could affect a picture's colors.) I have been experimenting with a cheap infrared filter I bought on eBay, putting it on the digital cameras and getting the eerie shots that IR gives -- near-white trees, near-black water, brilliant contrast between open sky and clouds. There are quite a few web pages dealing with infrared digital photography now -- just do a Google search on those words.

I doubt whether anything near the same effect could be gotten using Photoshop on a color picture, or by the use of colored filters with ordinary black and white film. A deep green filter (usually used to deepen skin tones in portraits) will lighten vegetation quite a bit, but it would probably reduce, not enhance, the contrast of clouds and sky. Of course, there are several infrared-sensitive black and white films available. They're used with an infrared filter, since the films are sensitive to the visible spectrum as well. The results resemble what an infrared-sensitive digital camera will yield, but of course the image is better.

You might want to give it a try!

-- Michael

P.S. Here's what a digital infrared picture looks like straight from the camera, before I grayscaled it in Photoshop. The camera "sees" the IR as magenta.

 

[gtramctram]

filter

filter

here is the result of a little experiment. I used a rangefinder red filter on a digital. It was fun to do bu the result is sort of crappy.

 

[gtramctram]

another try.

 

[jorisbens]

A quick snap of the "view" in front of my front door. Not very spectacular (and low quality), but from my back door, I have a view on a park and a monastry 😀

 

[VictorM.]

Olympus Pen S, unknown film & exposure

 

[gtramctram]

nice pics

nice pics

Those are great pics.

 

[physiognomy]

Shot taken tonight from my balcony... I was relaxing smoking a cigar & thought it was worth a quick picture... Sorry it's not a front door shot, but the view of the hall from my front door isn't that interesting! 😀

Peter

 

[gtramctram]

Hey,
Thats a great shot. I think next time I might try to get people to take a shot of their closet or garage. That ought to be entertaining. LOL

 

[peterc]

The view out my front door is pretty unexciting.
Kiev 4a, J8M, FP4+ on a dull afternoon.

Peter

 

[gtramctram]

pic

pic

You might think it unexciting but the pic was good.

 

[gtramctram]

My Front Door

My Front Door

This is my front door.