EDP - Experimental Digital Photography

I’ve been testing the Lensbaby Composer. The other day I went out with my Canon 350D converted for infrared (internal Hoya R-72 filter equivalent) and the Composer with the twin element glass lens. Here is one of the images: You can see others over on Digital ImageMaker World.

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If you examine Digital ImageMaker you will see that I have added a special section for computational photography, the area where you get so much more when you mix smart computer software and algorithms with digital cameras. So far I have covered Photoshop CS4′s extended depth of field capability and I am working on articles [...]

I’m shooting at the moment with the Nokia 6220 phone. This has a 5MPixel camera with a Carl Zeiss AF lens. As you would expect it does not cope well with low light because of the tiny sensor size in these phones. But in good light the pictures are surprisingly good. Full testing will follow [...]

Hotspots on IR images are central overexposed areas. They seem to occur more on unconverted cameras than converted ones and only with some lenses. I’ve been working on a theory for some time that at least part of this issue is caused by light leaking through the viewfinder during the usually long exposures with unconverted [...]

A day when I was feeling completely stuck and frustrated led me to doing something different.

As part of my testing of the Sigma 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC CIRCULAR FISHEYE HSM lens I went out with my Canon 350D that has been converted for infrared shooting. I was curious to see how the lens would perform in IR. But in the previous attempt at this article I got caught by my [...]

You can see the corrected version of this article here. But I’ve left it so you can see the images. As part of my testing of the Sigma 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC CIRCULAR FISHEYE HSM lens I went out with my Canon 350D that has been converted for infrared shooting. I was curious to see [...]

Lately I have been doing a lot of long exposure photography, both digital infrared and visible light. In the process of doing this work I have had shots that have been spoilt by flares, fogging and other artifacts. It turns out that these effects were cause because I did not have my eye blocking the [...]

Lately I’ve been experimenting again with the use of time as a core tool in crafting the image I want. Long exposure photography has a variety of lovely effects. I have not only been exploring these but also the technical aspects of the process. These results will be reported soon on The Digital ImageMaker. This [...]