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Bacardi said:
K12beano said:
Hmm - good shot. Is it Chester Thompson?
Nope. There is a very subtle clue but hardly legible at low res...
Unless that's Billy Cobham - vaguely remember a weird album cover with his face...... Is that from Mahavishnu Orchestra times? Otherwise I'd have to give up!Sorry - perpetuating thread drift....
I'll find a photo to make up for it!! 
C n C said:
I like that. What was the set up? And what film?
sgtBerbatov said:
C n C said:
I like that. What was the set up? And what film?Camera was Canon EOS-M (original mark 1 model), and was shot with a Hoya R72 IR filter
The camera was mounted on a mini tripod placed on the wall next to the river. Focus was set manually, then the IR filter was carefully screwed to the front of the lens being careful not to move the focus ring.
Exposure was aperture priority f5.6 and 10 seconds. Lens was the 18-55mm that came with the camera and set at the widest 18mm.
You have to focus manually as the camera cannot focus, and you can't see to focus with the filter attached.
The image out of the camera looks something like this:
IMG_0573 by conradsphotos, on FlickrThen in photoshop, you need to swap the red and blue channels - go to channel mixer and for the red channel drop the red slider to 0% and increase the blue to 100%.
Then for the blue channel, drop the blue slider to 0% and the red slider up to 100%.
Convert to grayscale and play around with contrast/levels until happy with the image.
It's a bit of a lottery, but good fun experimenting - also worth dialling in some exposure compensation of a couple of stops. After a while you start to get an idea from the very red image preview on the camera as to whether the final image is going to be any good.
Some digital cameras work better than others - it depends on a number of factors such as the built in filter over the sensor. Also some lenses work well, whereas some have really noticeable hot spots making them unsuitable.
If you really get into IR photography you can get a camera converted or buy a converted body which has had the IR filter over the sensor removed which enables auto-focus and much shorter exposure times, or (as is likely in your case), you can get infra red film, which I understand you need to use with yellow or orange filters, and take special care in handling and processing.
K12beano said:
No. - have to admit I don't really know my drummers - I can name half a dozen it's not...... Unless that's Billy Cobham - vaguely remember a weird album cover with his face...... Is that from Mahavishnu Orchestra times? Otherwise I'd have to give up!
No worries Beano. Just to conclude this diversion, the clue which you can’t see and I can’t be bothered to post, is the belt buckle which has the ‘Crusaders' logo on on it. The drummer is Nesbert ‘Stix' Hooper. Unless that's Billy Cobham - vaguely remember a weird album cover with his face...... Is that from Mahavishnu Orchestra times? Otherwise I'd have to give up!When I was at art school there was a TV show called 'Rock Goes to College’. Mostly rock and some punk, but as photography students we were allowed to go to rehearsal. At the time I had become more interested in Soul, Jazz, Funk, but I had never heard of the Crusaders.
They had just arrived looking a bit disheveled, I guess straight from Heathrow. I remember an enormous roady had been overseeing the setup of their gear and they just walked on stage for rehearsal and sound check. They kicked off with a track called 'Sweet and Sour' and that was the first time I had really heard truly professional musicians play, so polished... blew me away.
So I snapped away at Wilton Felder, Joe Sample (both, sadly no longer with us) and Stix. IIRC the bass player was Robert ‘Pops’ Popwell on that gig. Just after this time they released 'Street Life’ with Randy Crawford.
I shot this on colour transparency but always thought the snap looked better in B&W. Perhaps I should dig out the film and revisit some of those other snaps….
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