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Wayne reconsiders some of his recent photographs and explores how they look using a favored technique of his.
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We are all human and a recent stuff up on my part makes that clear if I had forgotten it.

I’ve been testing the new Sigma 4.5mm and 10mm fisheye lenses. Both lenses have strange lens caps, in that there is a normal lens cap, plus a lens shade-like extension so that the actual lens cap does not interfere with either the projecting lens (in the case of the 4.5mm) or the minimal lens shade (with the 10mm). I had noted this on the 10mm but not on the 4.5mm. So I put out an initial article about using the 4.5mm with my infrared converted Canon 350D. When it was pointed out to me what was going on, I quickly had to go out, do some more shooting and then put a corrected article up on the site.

One of the things I love about the Internet is that I can quickly post a correction, hopefully before someone makes a wrong purchase decision based on it. Of course I could have just pulled the wrong article but the pictures in it are interesting in their own right and honesty I think needs to apply. So I posted a new follow-up article and cross-linked them.

New camera gear is exciting and I am as prone to this as anyone.

Recently I was in Sydney for an Autodesk press event and since I had the afternoon free before my flight back to Melbourne I went out shooting with my converted (by MaxMax.com) Canon 350D.

A gallery of my Sydney Infrared images can be seen in the Digital ImageMaker World Gallery.

I hadn’t shot a lot recently. Other commitments plus the silly season had tied me up and kept me substantially away from the camera.

But, last week, we got away to the family beach house for a week and I managed to do a lot of shooting. Some experimental stuff didn’t work out. But that is the way it goes. But I also got a lot of great results. One of these is the shot below, an infrared image shot with my converted Canon 350D near Cape Schank in Victoria.

It was so great to get back behind a camera, spiritual in a way. I loved it and came back rejuvenated and ready to get stuck into a new round of camera reviews on DIMi.

Recently Joe Nalven asked me to contribute some words and images to a piece on infrared photography. The resulting article, with several other IR photographer’s thoughts as well as mine, makes a good read and is a useful document. You can find it on Joe’s Digital Art Guild website.

As part of my testing of a Lensbaby 3G I decided (naturally for me ) to see how it worked on my infrared converted 350D. I am not aware of anyone else trying this, perhaps because the number of people with both a converted SLR and a Lensbaby is small.

How does it work? Amazingly well actually.

One resulting image is below:

I’ve setup a gallery so I can show you much more of my results:

http://www.digitalimagemakerworld.com/gallery/main.php/v/lensir/

Photography can be a solitary avocation, giving you time along, just you, your camera and your subject. In such a way, photography can be a highly meditative and contemplative hobby or job, depending on the type of photography you do, obviously.

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Life has been very busy recently, and my output on DIMI and here has suffered. But I’ve still been shooting.

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I just got back from a weekend at the beach and wanted to post one of the pictures I took, an IR shot with my converted 350D of the full moon over the bay at Portsea.

10 Seconds, f3.5 100ISO, 30mm focal length using a Canon 28-135 IS lens (IS off for tripod use)

My recent experiences and experimentations in photography have led me to reflect on photography as an avocation.
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