Bombo, NSW.
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Tags: Bombo Boneyard Landscape Seascape Monochrome peter Hill sunrise Canon EOS 5D Mark II Canon TS-E 45mm f2.8 Lee Grad ND Hoya ND x400 black & white Long exposure
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When shooting with my B&W Infrared Converted 5D2, there are 2 lighting and compositional techniques I use whenever the right conditions arise. Quite a few of my sold exhibition works incorporated one or the other, so I know they work! But, you have to be quick because we are talking about the right natural light conditions.
One technique is too use a rising sun to backlight the photograph. Often I will find the composition to suit this technique in the form of a large tree. The more interesting the tree the better. With a normal camera you will lose a lot of foreground detail to dark shadow, but not with the IR camera. This was no more evident with my favourite backlit photograph - "The Warmth Of The Winter Sun" - which I first exhibited (and sold) on the first day of my Light Matters exhibition and which will also be showing at my forthcoming exhibition at the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Gallery (17 December - 26 February).
The second technique is to utilise reflected light from a tall flat object, namely a building, preferably early morning light or late afternoon light as it is crisper. I used this particular technique a year ago to take a completely unplanned shot on the roof of a carpark in Melbourne CBD which turned into one of my favourite B&W shots ever - "Weathered", and it sold at the Opening Night of my Light Matters exhibition.
Recently, I found myself in Siena in Tuscany, Italy very early one morning in a certain spot where BOTH the above techniques came into play - backlighting and reflected light. I had the tree for the backlighting, plus an archway, and I had a huge stone wall just behind me providing the reflected light. Bonus. It was just the start of a walking shoot in near empty streets and gorgeous crisp light and reflected light.
Hand-held B&W Infrared-converted Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon TS-E 24mm f3.5L lens, ISO 160, f9 at 1/80 second.
Tags: Peter Hill Infrared IR Italy Siena Tree backlit reflected light sunrise Canon EOS 5D Mark II Canon TS-E 24mm f3.5L
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Tags: Blue Mountains Blue Mountains National Park Peter Hill long exposure landscape Leura Falls Creek Leura Weeping Rock Canon TS-E 24mm f3.5L II creek Canon EOS 5D Mark II
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The view from the house we stay in when we go to Dorrigo.
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Tags: Peter Hill Infrared IR landscape Dorrigo sunset black & white monochrome clouds hills Canon EOS 5D Mark II Canon TS-E 24mm f3.5L II
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Finalist, ANZANG Australian Nature Photographer of the Year Award, 2013
Light Matters Exhibition, 10 June 2016 - 26 June 2016 (Blackheath), 28 June 2016 - 10 July 2016 (Katoomba)
This shot was taken late one afternoon at the southern end of the Barrington Tops National Park, just in from the dingo gate. It is an area where logging had previously been allowed, and it was recovering from a bushfire.
The light was perfect, but only for a few minutes. It was a case of braking in a cloud of dust and jumping out of the car to quickly grab my Infrared camera at the time (an converted Canon EOS 10D that has an deep B&W 830nm IR filter inside it). We were on our way back to our campsite at Horse Swamp after dropping down to Moonan Flat for a few celebratory beers after making it to an unnamed 10m waterfall off the track earlier in the day.
Tags: Peter Hill landscape Infrared IR Trees Barrington Tops Barrington Tops National Park NSW Canon EOS 10D Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L
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