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The Art of Realistic Black and White Infrared Photography
Hi All
A quick blog from your ever intrepid professional event and landscape photographer from around Edinburgh. A break from the conference and corporate photography in Scotland and time for some infrared photos from Portobello in Edinburgh. Today I am going to talk about realistic infrared photos. If I hadn't told you the attached photo was infrared photography, you would never have known. Sometimes infrared photography, through using a converted camera, can be a good way of creating a very contrasty image with a high structure content to it. This is partly because infrared highlights which ordinary cameras are unable to detect and all you have to do is to convert the image to black and white and up the contrast and structure and you have a really dynamic black and white photograph. This means that infrared converted cameras can be very useful for landscape photography and while I like to do some whacky colour stuff, I also like realistic black and white images taken with an infrared converted camera. Of course it depends on the filter you have in your converted infrared camera, although even some of the filters designed for colour infrared can also create good black and white images. The best filter is a 720, which is not so good for colour infrared but great for black and white stuff.
Anyway, its goodbye from me until next time. Some conference photography in Edinburgh next week and supercar motor sport at the weekend.
All the best.
Regards
Colin
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk
www.edinburghphotographer.com
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Landscape and Fine Art Photography Sales and Graduation Ball Photography Scotland and UK
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The infrared photograph season has started and I have been adding images to my Infrared Photography in Scotland collection. In addition to my specialist area of event photography in Edinburgh and Scotland, I have been exhibiting and selling my fine art infrared images in Ocean Terminal and Red Bubble, a good way to promote your product to offer on a range of accessories.
In a couple of weeks time I will have a conference photography commission in Edinburgh and coming up soon some graduation ceremony photography for Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. I really enjoy the Graduation Balls, the energy of the events, combined with that youthful enthusiasm, make them great to photograph. You are capturing people at their best. There is an opportunity to photograph awards and prize giving, dancing, reportage candid images of people interacting and often formal couple shots using portable photography gear.
Anyway, until next year I will leave you with a photograph from the Graduation Ball from the Chemistry Students from Heriot Watt, held a few weeks ago.
Until next time.
Kind Regards
Colin
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk
Motorsport Photography Tips and Getting Ready for Weddings
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As some of you know, as a professional commercial photographer operating in and around Edinburgh, I also do motorsport photography in addition to my specialism of corporate conference photography in Scotland. The season for motorsport photography has started and part of this is photographing the Supercar events in East Fortune, Edinburgh and Fife. I also use this time to get some precious infrared Supercar photos at the event locations. However, today, I thought I would share a few Supercar tips with you all. So here they are:
1. This is the most important one, you must use a polarising filter, otherwise you will not be able to identify the drivers. You may as well go home without a polariser
2. Dress for bad weather, this is Scotland, you can’t take all the photos from your car, the best ones will be when you are more flexible and outdoors. This also goes for the sun, hat and sun tan lotion are essential, especially if you are outdoors for as long as 9 hours
3. Try out different angles and positions, crouch, stand up, try different speeds etc. You don’t want the client to get identical shots
4. Try some panning ie moving the camera and lens parallel with the subject, it creates a creative blurred background
5. It may sound obvious but if you neglect it, this can be what pushes you over the edge, especially if you are out for long periods - take plenty of food and juice, water etc, you may not get a break and the refreshments if there are any are likely to be expensive and or poor. Also and this is a must for me, headphones and music
Hope that helps
Until next time
Kind Regards
Colin
Colin Wright Photography
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk
www.edinburghphotographer.com
Conference Photography in Edinburgh 5 new Tips
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As the conference photography season is upon us for all professional corporate photographers in Edinburgh and around Scotland, I thought it would be an appropriate time to share a few tips, shown below:
1. Get to know the main organiser as well as you can, before, during and after the event. Learn their needs and preferences. It is this key person who will employ you in the future
2. Taylor your photos according to the needs of the company, ie check previous brochures, internet photos ets and ask them what they want. Its no use photographing a lot of artistic black and white images if the organiser wants presenter shots in colour
3. To contradict what I just said, take risks, do something different, so you stand out from other photographers. I like to offer some corporate infrared photos to my client as an added extra and they usually love it
4. I have said this again and again, but don't overdo I, back-off once you have your photos, give people space. They may not re-employ you if they think you are a pest
5. Keep it simple when it comes to equipment. You will likely only use 2 lenses, even 1 sometimes. This also goes for flash modifiers, don't overdo the fancy equipment, find the best way and stick to it. Also, it decreases the chances of losing stuff
That's all for now folks
Until next time
Col
www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk