Abandoned Railway Track ~ IR 2 Apr 2010

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The boys at ClubSNAP organised an IR photography outing and I couldn't remember who it was but someone suggested the old abandoned railway track at Clementi near Sunset Way.
Now that was a great place to shoot IR photographs.
And I started a thread in which several of the members namely Richard (LowLights), Kai Sing (vngks) and Alex (AlexK) contributed their works for the day.  A very very good start to our IR group and the beginning of many more IR outings to come.

The East in Surreality ~ IR [limwhow]

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This year of 2010 is the year in which my IR fever reached a peak.
I shot almost nothing but IR.
Every moment of my waking time, I saw IR, I thought IR, I breathed IR and I shit IR.
Unbelievable was my passion for this genre of photography.

And when I found that the Tokina fisheye 10-17mm was THE lens for my Canon 20D R72 IR-modified camera, I grabbed it and started shooting.
And boy, did I play with this combination.

Supreme Court walk ~ IR

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My confidence level grew as I played with Photoshop, and my eyes began to be trained to look for the right kind of conditions to shoot IR pictures.
And on this day Serene and I went shooting around the Supreme Court area.

Goodwood Park ~ an IR series

I became rather obsessed with IR photography.
And my good old Canon 20D modified with the R72 IR filter became my constant companion.  Everywhere I went, it was with me.  Even when Serene and I went for our medical seminars.

Tree ~ an IR series [A good discussion on hotspots]

I still remember how crazy I became in my quest for IR shots that I started looking around at trees very very differently.  And my eyes would scan the sides of the roads each time I drove around.  And this was one of those hot, sunny afternoon when I, still clothed in my office attire, finished work and started looking for trees to shoot.
This was somewhere along the ECP...

Here is the ClubSNAP link:  Tree ~ an IR series [limwhow]

A shot with very obvious hotspots, caused by the
Canon lens 17-85mm at f/8.

I walked and shot.
And time stood still while a passionate photographer sought the right moments, the right angles, the right subjects, for his IR creations.

But strangely at certain angles, the hotspot wasn't obvious.

Looking through this thread in ClubSNAP and the discussion by various members who took the trouble to come onto my thread and contributed, it was very obvious that hotspots were common problems, more so in certain lenses than others.  And as IR shooters, we need to be very aware of these and to learn to either use lenses that are not hotspot-prone, or learn to post-process them away.

My first Infrared Photos...

Some of my friends kinda gone crazy after seeing Rudy shooting with three IR camera on our recent Laos trip with Singapore Trekkers.  And they all one by one gotten Fatigue (David Hilos) of ClubSNAP to modify newly acquired second hand DSLRs to IR cameras.

I SMS-ed David. And he replied what kind of effects I wanna achieve.
I really really didn't know what to answer him.  So I hazarded: "something where the leaves turn snowy white.".  "Then you would want an R72 filter modified DSLR," replied the experienced photographer.

And the rest was history.
After I gotten my camera back, I  excited went on a IR photo rampage..
And this was the very first series of my IR photos.
Really really infantile.