Lens-Artists Challenge #317: Walking the Neighbourhood

Lens-Artists Challenge #317: Walking the Neighbourhood

This week on the Lens-Artists Challenge it was the turn of Tina from 'Travels and Trifles' to host a theme and she has chosen, 'Walking the Neighbourhood' (https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/). She presented some lovely images on her walk to the beach, and asked us to share our neighborhood with the group. 

Here in Portugal we live in a little village called Carris. It actually consists of a few houses around a roundabout and is situated between the town of Oiã and the village of Águas Boas. Aside from the road through Carris, towards Oiã, the houses are surrounded by fields and woodlands — thankfully these were spared from the wildfires of last week — and one of my favourite pastimes is to walk the countryside. Indeed, if you scroll through my blog you'll find many photographs of these woods at different times of the year. 

One of the things I do enjoy doing, especially when I'm playing with a new camera, is to test its infrared response by making digital aerochromes. Aerochrome film was a Kodak colour infrared film where the vegetation appears as shades of red. It was discontinued around 2009, and since then people have tried to recreate the look of infrared both with film and digital cameras.

I use a method developed by Joshua Bird (https://joshuabird.com/blog/post/recreating-aerochrome). Where he took three black and white images with infrared, red and green filtered and layered these images into a single image file in a photo editor as red/green/blue (top/middle/bottom) layers. Joshua devoted his method for film, but I use it quite successfully with digital cameras. 

It won't work with all cameras, but I do find that many digicams from the noughties, with not terribly efficient cut filters (a filter positioned over the sensor which cuts out infrared wavelengths so you see a natural looking image) and CCD sensors can produce very pleasing digital aerochromes. 

So my trip around the neighbourhood was to take one of my favourite digital cameras, the Canon Powershot G12, out into the woodlands behind our house to make some digital aerochromes. There are many variations of these images on my blog, I find that we get different colours in the aerochromes depending on the time of day, and I also found a new location, an abandoned football field (that's 'soccer' to some) behind the Águas Boas football club.

I'll finish this entry with a 'bonus' image that I think came out really well. It's a digital aerochrome made up of three images, but this time I introduced a little Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) into the mix. Of course there was no way that I could line this up in post, so I didn't even try, but I really like how this came out.

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