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Photoshoot: Washington University

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Founded in 1853,  Washington University is a private Research University located in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.  Washington University or “Wash-U” was named after the first US President, George Washington.  The University campus has the classic look and feel of an old world ivy league  school.  A perfect place to shoot some architectural HDR in Infrared.2

My interest for this series was the buildings.  I wanted to capture them in a way that there could be no time reference.  The first thing I needed was an absence of people. The solution was simple, shoot on a Sunday.   7

Second, all my angles needed to avoid anything too modern around the structures.  The open areas do have lamp posts, but they are of a style that fits the architecture.   I was lucky and got a great clouds to fill in the sky and help give the images depth.  11

I wanted to capture the intense, cold feel of these old world buildings, yet wanted the lively color possible with Enhanced Color IR, so I worked to incorporate plants, grass and sky when possible.  I also made use of the buildings archways to draw the viewer into the image. 19  For this shoot I went light and simple; one camera body and an Ultra wide lens.  All my images were shot hand held.  I wanted as much depth to my images as possible, but since I was not using a tripod I was limited to nothing below 1/60 sec.  I know from experience I can shoot at 1/60th without blur. 12

Everything was shot with AEB, auto exposure bracketing of 1 stop +/- giving me images at 1/60, 1/125, 1/250.  The camera is an Enhanced Color Converted (665nm) Canon 50D and it was given a manual white balance using grass a reference.
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Images were shot in RAW.  The RAW images were given a second white balance, this time using the structures as a white reference.  The RAW images were converted to Jpegs and Jpegs used to create HDR images.  The images were created using PhotoShop CS5, NIK HDR Efex Pro2, NIK Color Efex Pro4, and NIK Dfine2.  The saturation levels on the Yellow, Blue and Cyan tones were increased, while the Red tones were either decreased or removed completely.

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Dan Wampler is a digital artist from St Louis, MO. Having been interested in art and photography since childhood, he spent most of adult life working for Kodak and in the portrait photography industry. A student of the works of Ansel Adams, Any Warhol, and David Hamilton, Dan attempted to keep a wide range of artistic style.

As an early adopter of digital imaging, he found it gave him a way to completely incorporate art and photography. Began shooting Digital Infrared in 2004, and had first camera converted in 2006. His work has been seen in numerous gallery shows, is featured in an iTunes app. He produces Infrared and natural color digital art for sale and teaches his post-production techniques online.

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Comments

  1. Catherine says

    February 9, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    Great pictures. Composition really complements the color IR. I second Charles’s appreciation for the tech notes. Will be really helpful when I get my converted camera back.

    Reply
  2. Wade says

    February 7, 2015 at 6:03 am

    Stunning

    Reply
  3. Dave says

    February 5, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    Fascinating set of images and great to see a slightly different take on the subject

    Reply
  4. Jeanne Berget says

    February 3, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    LOVE this project and it’s execution. I’m just entering the infrared world and it’s SO exciting!

    Reply
  5. TC says

    February 3, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    Love the architectural details, the toning works so well.

    Reply
  6. Charles Wolfe says

    February 3, 2015 at 11:21 am

    An excellent architectural photo shoot. Really appreciate the thorough tech notes.

    Reply

Comments

  1. Catherine says

    February 9, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    Great pictures. Composition really complements the color IR. I second Charles’s appreciation for the tech notes. Will be really helpful when I get my converted camera back.

    Reply
  2. Wade says

    February 7, 2015 at 6:03 am

    Stunning

    Reply
  3. Dave says

    February 5, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    Fascinating set of images and great to see a slightly different take on the subject

    Reply
  4. Jeanne Berget says

    February 3, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    LOVE this project and it’s execution. I’m just entering the infrared world and it’s SO exciting!

    Reply
  5. TC says

    February 3, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    Love the architectural details, the toning works so well.

    Reply
  6. Charles Wolfe says

    February 3, 2015 at 11:21 am

    An excellent architectural photo shoot. Really appreciate the thorough tech notes.

    Reply

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