Busuanga Bay, Philippines

[Thor Lidasan]

Following images are shot in what Conde Nast calls as the most beautiful islands in the world for 2015 - group of islands in Palawan. These images are primarily shot in the islands of Coron.

First on the block:

Sunset in Busuanga Bay
Busuanga-Bay-Lodge-#100web3 by ny6263.362, on Flickr

[Thor Lidasan]

Turn on the lights and color my world in shades of purples, greens, and blues...

Sunset in Busuanga Bay
Busuanga-Bay-Lodge-infinity-pool by ny6263.362, on Flickr

[Thor Lidasan]

Infrared photography, anybody interested? Here we go...

Palawan in Infrared
Palawan-web-#101 by ny6263.362, on Flickr

[Akira]

What an impressive series!  The purples, greens and blues image is fantastic.  You do have your style for IR images for sure.

[Thor Lidasan]

What an impressive series!  The purples, greens and blues image is fantastic.  You do have your style for IR images for sure.

Thanks a bunch, Akira! 

[Fons Baerken]

Indeed very crisp for ir, gear specs Thor?

[Thor Lidasan]

Indeed very crisp for ir, gear specs Thor?

Thanks, Fons!

IR image is from the old Sigma DP1 full-spectrum with B+W 099 NIR filter and processed in Sigma Photo Pro for raw conversion and edited in CS6.

[Thor Lidasan]

The visible images above are from Nikon D610 + Tokina 16-28mm f/2.8.

Here's an IR from Palawan shot via Nikon D7000 converted to 720nm and the lens is the Nikkor 18-70mm. I am having focusing problems with this particular IR camera with the edges getting blurry results. This might be due to the thickness of the IR filter or the camera needs calibration with the lens.

720nm IR in Palawan

Candyland-Palawan-#110 by ny6263.362, on Flickr

[Thor Lidasan]

It was a good thing I brought my Sigma DP1 full-spectrum with me as my D7000 IR camera was rendered useless with its focusing issues. The Sigma DP1 with its 5-megapixel Foveon sensor is a thing of beauty. I've printed 24' wide prints with it and with careful resizing I am still able to obtain excellent prints out of it. Raw files processed first in Sigma Photo Pro is the key (IMHO) in getting proper conversion of IR images out of it.

Here's one from my old standby, Sigma DP1 with B+W 099 filter:

Candyland Palawan #100 by ny6263.362, on Flickr

[armando_m]

Really like 1 and 2

[Jakov Minić]

I love the colors in the IR images!
And that swimming pool...

[Jørgen Ramskov]

I too, really like the swimming pool images.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

I'm very partial to bold colour and IR. You have some excellent examples here. The second image, probably not IR but who cares, really stands out. Also the first IR (or rather, Infrared Ektachrome emulation) is very nice as it presents foliage in hues of warm reds. The last ones lack the enticing reds and in particular the last one reminds me too much of EIR processed in E-6, a process in which most of the subtle gradations are squashed or entirely lost. (Kodak recommended AR-5 for this film, but no labs in my part of the world offered it).

[Thor Lidasan]

Thank you for the kind comments, Bjørn! I am without a Nikon IR camera for now. The latest converted IR cam I have, D7000 720nm is having focusing issue. I might resurrect my old D40x which fell down in a ravine and the lcd is cracked but still takes photos.

It might just be me but I did notice a difference between the CCD-based sensor of the D40x against the CMOS-based sensor of D7000. The D40x IR images are very crisp where as the D7000 is not as crisp as the D40x.

Thanks again!

I'm very partial to bold colour and IR. You have some excellent examples here. The second image, probably not IR but who cares, really stands out. Also the first IR (or rather, Infrared Ektachrome emulation) is very nice as it presents foliage in hues of warm reds. The last ones lack the enticing reds and in particular the last one reminds me too much of EIR processed in E-6, a process in which most of the subtle gradations are squashed or entirely lost. (Kodak recommended AR-5 for this film, but no labs in my part of the world offered it).

[Bjørn Rørslett]

The D40x had an exceptional image quality all things considered.