A new house guest
Meet our latest house guest – Mr Fox. After 3 months of observing the garden at night via our remote camera trap and beginning to lose hope of seeing any foxes, he turned up. What’s more – he was a…
Category Infrared
To soften or not to soften? That is the question
So the age old photography mantra is to capture sharp images. But since I have started taking infrared shots I have found myself experimenting with post processing like never before. Some new effects which are gradually introducing themselves to my…
Frolicking Friday
One Friday afternoon as we were heading back to camp (in Kruger National Park, South Africa), we came across an incredibly playful group of Impala. They were bouncing, chasing each other, mock fighting, charging and seemingly just really enjoying a rare cool…
Lessons in infrared photography – just when you think you have cracked it…
Regular followers of the Taraji Blue blog will know that I have recently become obsessed with infrared photography. For Christmas, Ali bought me a compact digital camera complete with infrared filter and I was immediately hooked. After first experimenting with the style of…
Too Dark?
I have been experimenting with the infrared shots I took in Lapland and have decided to re-review some of the shots I discarded to see if I could ‘rescue’ any of them from the trash. I stumbled upon this shot –…
Am I an infrared bore?
I know I am running the risk of turning this into an infrared blog, but I just wanted to share another of my recent shots with you. I have called it “A Farm In Infrared”. Does what it says on the tin I guess? It was…
Appreciating your own backyard and new techniques
Whilst I adore travelling the world and documenting our trips through photography it can be even more satisfying to obtain pictures you are proud of from your own locality. When you’re faced with the incredible wildlife of the Mara, or the architectural wonders…
The Yorkshire Dales, In Infrared
Last weekend we headed to the Yorkshire Dales and had a lovely weekend experimenting with infrared photography. Thankfully it snowed heavily on the Friday night, so after the tractor had rescued our car from the field (!) we headed out for a hike…
Lapland… in infrared
A week or so ago I shared some infrared photos with no post processing. Since then I have been beavering away to try and post process these RAW files, experimenting with all kinds of tints, temperatures, white balance and sharpness. I settled on monochrome,…
Further experiments in infrared…
I’ve been out and about again, experimenting with infrared photography. This was before the snow arrived in England, and I was keen to see what kind of shots I could get without the incredibly reflective shiny surface of the freshly fallen snow I’d become…