In Focus: Radek Gora

Isle of Wight photographer Radek Gora captures one of the Isle of Wight's smallest residents. Picture by Radek Gora.

WELCOME to the incredible world of Radek Gora — the latest Isle of Wight photographer to be featured in our In Focus series.

Radek works full time as a support worker in the Isle of Wight NHS Mental Health team, but uses his spare time to create some incredible images of the Island and its smallest inhabitants.

"My favourite subject are insects bugs and spiders. They are everywhere and can make some of the most fascinating and dramatic close-up photography subjects.

"Insects and their tiny environment offer the macro photographer an unlimited amount of colour, texture and physical architecture to explore. And the "model" is never unhappy with your pictures," he said.

"My favourite place on the Island for photography is Newtown Creek. I have taken so many pictures there but I still manage to find something different that doesn't just look like a copy of previous pictures," he added.

Radek's interest in photography started as a teenager, but he took it to the next stage seven years ago, buying his first DSLR camera.

"Not long ago I got my first full frame camera Nikon D810 which I use all the time and with my Ikelite underwater housing I can take it with me when I'm diving.

"The second camera is Nikon D80 converted to infrared photography. I used different lenses depending what kind of pictures i'm taking, mostly Sigma 105mm Macro, Nikon 10,5mm fisheye and Tamron 28-300mm.

"With my macro work I use sometimes Raynox 250 on top of my usual macro lens and lately Leica 4x microscope objective (the picture of a fly). For pictures and videos "from above" I have a Phantom 3 Professional drone," said Radek.

For others taking up photography, he advised: "Forget about AUTO mode and don't give up. Try different things. Some people are laughing when I'm saying that, but 'YouTube' is a great source of photographic knowledge and ideas.

"I have learned a lot from many tutorials on YouTube and found some great tricks and ideas."

See more of his work and buy copies here https://www.facebook.com/radoslawgoraphotography

All pictures by Radek Gora.

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Angels Wings: The Whispers Of The Unseen (IR Photo)

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Angels Wings: Whispers Of The Unseen

Infrared photography is about what the human eye can't seen, and this photography requires constant experimentation and a willingness to fail. I am learning more and more about the light that the camera can see but I cannot see.

Today, as the sun set behind the Rose of Sharon bush in our yard, I got on the other side of the bush, and the camera saw the light in these flowers, which are actually purple to my eye, but filled with light in reality, my eyes can't see this by themselves.

Maria called them angel wings, and that hit me right away, of course, the wings of angels, dancing their unseen dancing, singing in the whispers of the unseen. This camera always tells the truth, even when I can't see it.

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Infrared Heaters Industry: Global Consumption Value, Sales and Key Companies Profile 2016

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The report focuses on global major leading industry players providing information such as company profiles, product picture and specification, capacity, production, price, cost, revenue and contact information. Upstream raw materials and equipment and downstream demand analysis is also carried out. The Infrared Heaters industry development trends and marketing channels are analyzed. Finally the feasibility of new investment projects are assessed and overall research conclusions offered.

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Angels Wings: The Whispers Of The Unseen (IR Photo)

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Today, as the sun set behind the Rose of Sharon bush in our yard, I got on the other side of the bush, and the camera saw the light in these flowers, which are actually purple to my eye, but filled with light in reality, my eyes can't see this by themselves.

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Tips for Capturing the Infrared Landscape

Posted on Sep 1, 2016 in Featured, Filters

Today's Post by Joe Farace

Something to think about: When working with infrared images everything you know about visible light is wrong.

That's because exposure meters are not sensitive to infrared light (or even some LED lighting, but that's a subject for another day,) it can be difficult to calculate exact exposures but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Although mirrorless camera's LCD screens provide instant feedback, it's not always accurate. And not predictably in the same direction—over or underexposure— and can vary from camera to camera and from IR conversion to filters used.

And you can't trust your eyes. Two subjects that seem equally bright under normal (visible) light might reflect infrared radiation at different rates and exhibit different brightness. And as I've discovered time of day can have a dramatic effect on the results. So what's a poor hippo to do? (as it says on my favorite coffee mug)…

Tip #1: Shoot RAW. Eliminating all of the hoo-haw of JPEG gives you a better image file to start with. But I still recommend that you shoot RAW+JPEG with the camera set in monochrome mode if only you to give you a preview albeit flawed of what the RAW file might reveal. You can toss the JPEG later.

Tip #2: Bracket, Most digital cameras an auto bracketing function that make a specified series of shots at exposures over and under what is considered "normal." Even if your camera doesn't have bracketing function it should have an Exposure Compensation feature that lets you adjust exposures in one-half or one-third stops. I use this one a lot when shooting RR. If all fails and you're still not happy with the results shoot in Manual mode.

Tip #3: Just because you don't have a converted IR camera doesn't mean you can't use all the tips covered here with cameras that are infrared capable out of the box. It does mean that when using dark filters (you can't really see though them) but most mirrorless cameras provide a pretty good preview, depending on the filter's density and the final exposure. Tip 3a: Because of the long exposure times produced, you will need a tripod.

Mark and I have found that Life Pixel does a great job with IR conversions. You can get $50 OFF with Priority Processing Upgrade by using coupon code: Toal-IR. Don't miss out on this soon to expire offer, order your conversion today!

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Hyperspectral Imaging Shines Light on a Mesoamerican Treasure

Detail of a page of the Codex Selden, as revealed using hyperspectral imaging. [Image: Copyright © Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports, 2016, Elsevier; courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, U.K.]

For more than 50 years, the Codex Selden, a rare Mesoamerican manuscript dating from around 1560, has frustrated scientific inquiry. Archaeologists have long known that the accordion-folded, 20-page leather codex likely contains a rich pictographic record of Mexico's culture and history, as seen by its indigenous Mixtec peoples during the upheavals of the earliest colonial period. But that original indigenous record has subsequently been completely covered by a layer of white gesso (gypsum and chalk). And recovering the original images without damaging the precious artifact itself has proved all but impossible.

Now, a research team from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom has used a thoroughly modern optical technique, hyperspectral imaging, to noninvasively burrow through the gesso and reveal the scenes beneath (J. Archeol. Sci.: Reports, doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.07.019). While much work remains to be done, the effort has already yielded some surprises.

A stubborn subject

Archaeologists first realized that the Codex Selden was a palimpsest—an original manuscript that has been subsequently covered—in the late 1950s, when several researchers attempted physically remove the gesso on one of the codex pages to reveal the writing beneath. The effort proved only marginally successful, however, and since then scientists have searched for ways to get at the original writing noninvasively.

The codex, however, has stubbornly resisted most techniques commonly used to investigate artworks of this kind. X-ray analysis, the most common technique, is useless in this case, because the organic paints used in the original pictographic writing don't absorb X-rays. Infrared imaging has revealed only limited information, as has another technique, photothermal tomography (which measures the thermal energy produced when colors absorb light).

Trying out hyperspectral imaging

Netherlands researchers Ludo Snijders of Leiden University and Tim Zaman of Delft University, along with David Howell of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, U.K., decided to take another crack at the Codex Selden. To do so, they zeroed in on hyperspectral imaging, which uses a combination of high-resolution, pixel-by-pixel spectroscopy and high-speed, intense data crunching to pull out detailed information on a given scene. Originally designed for military surveillance, the method has increasingly been applied in recent years in other spheres—from food safety to airport security—as costs, especially for data processing, have dropped (see "Hyperspectral Imaging for Safety and Security," OPN, October 2015).

The researchers began with one of the pages of the codex that had already been partly physically uncovered during the initial work in the 1950s. Scanning that page across the visible spectrum using a hyperspectral-imaging setup that had been recently acquired by the Bodleian Library, the team next applied principal component analysis and independent component analysis to reduce the huge volume of hyperspectral data into an interpretable image. Red pigments showed up particularly strongly; the hyperspectral technique was also able to tease out yellow pigments, which had previously been difficult to discern at all, as they tended to blend in with the gesso color.

Striking new view

The team was able to put the data from the hyperspectral imaging together with the previous information from optical photography, infrared photography and other techniques to form a striking new view of the original codex drawings (see image below). One of the researchers, archaeologist Ludo Snijders, noted in a press release that the text revealed by the new method "doesn't match that of other early Mixtec manuscripts. The genealogy we see appears to be unique.

Pages of the Codex Selden on which the white gesso layer had been partly removed in a previous study (top) were hyperspectrally imaged. The hyperspectral data were combined with information from several other methods to reveal, noninvasively, the original pictographic scenes hidden under the gesso covering (bottom). [Image: Copyright © Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports, 2016, Elsevier; courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, U.K.] [Enlarge image]

The researchers are using the hyperspectral results from the previously partly uncovered page as a sort of "style guide" for interpreting results from the rest of the document, where the gesso covering is more complete and the challenges of uncovering the palimpsest more formidable. Revealing the full text will likely be a long and difficult process, even with the hyperspectral addition to the toolkit.

Nonetheless, the results have been sufficient to excite the research community on the codex's potential to illuminate Mixtec history. And coauthor David Howell of the Bodleian Library is bullish on hyperspectral for other applications as well. "This is very much a new technique," he says, "and we've learned valuable lessons about how to use hyperspectral imaging in the future both for this very fragile manuscript and for countless others like it."

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