Infrared Long Exposure ND Filter

[digartal]

I made a couple of AV's recently of infrared images at a local tea tree lake. The first one features the scene without the ND filter and some images have an ND filter applied in the following image to smooth the water.

The second AV features just the ND images, and it is a shorter version.

I am also working on a version of monochrome IR images with colour added in post-processing. Interesting that Youtube features the same image as the thumbnail.

Cheers

Mark

[Mike Reed]

On 11/13/2025 at 2:19 AM, digartal said:

I made a couple of AV's recently of infrared images at a local tea tree lake. The first one features the scene without the ND filter and some images have an ND filter applied in the following image to smooth the water.

The second AV features just the ND images, and it is a shorter version.

I am also working on a version of monochrome IR images with colour added in post-processing. Interesting that Youtube features the same image as the thumbnail.

Cheers

Mark

Hi Mark

 

They certainly have impact although I did find the snap changes a bit repetitive and some of the images appeared to be duplicated. Perhaps some long

dissolves would fool the eye into not realising that a dissolve had taken place. The music would have to change and be more soothing

ng

[digartal]

Thanks Mike, I appreciate your feedback.

My first digital AV review from a Judge said 'Just because the software has 300 transitions, you don't have to use them all in the same presentation". This was in the early days of digital, when analogue slide AV's used a pulse on a tape to change the slide projector. He went on to become a good friend and has recently crossed the rainbow.

Some images are similar from a close-by viewpoint, but I thought I removed them and reduced it further for the shorter show. I will probably never go back and edit/redo this show but noted for further productions. The audience would be same so better using my time to make an AN on another subject.

In the longer show, I wanted to show "standard" transition from each different scene to the next with a 2 sec dissolve on the same scene with the ND filter. I tried a long transition on the shorter presentation but preferred the "standard" transition on all the ND filter images as a dissolve made it one big continuous scene.

Thanks again for commenting and food for thought.

Mark

[Mike Reed]

It is so easy for judges to influence what we do. I once made a judge bait sequence with every  arty dissolve I could find. I only inflicted on one judge as I could see the palpitations