Oct 13
Because I thought it was the end of the event season, I sent my Nikon D200 to ACR so that they could remove the so called “hot mirror” and replace it with an infrared only filter. This glass has no anti aliasing lines, making all pictures a bit blurrier, so I have to apply more sharpening at the end. It was a rather pricey conversion, costing me nearly 400 euro’s, thanks to a low priced pound.
I took some sample pictures in my village, and I later took the camera with me to Rome. I’ll still hang on to my D100 though, It has a different glass, giving slightly different infrared pictures.
I could have removed the contrails, but as it is only a test, and I’m a lazy bum, I decided against it. 
Tagged with: black and white • contrails • D200 • Hazerswoude • infrared • Nikon
May 12
In the year 1712 A.D. a woman named Susanna Cors Rijsevelt “Seintje” married Arie Stevens van Beijeren.
According to records, their children were born in the Weijpoortsche polder, and their father, Arie, was a miller, or “miller, living on the Weijlandsche windmill“, or simply “born on the watermill“.
And it happens that the Weipoortsche polder has one windmill, rebuilt in 1674, which worked until 1975, when it’s job was taken over by electric pumps. But it has been restored to working order since then, and can be used as a backup.
I went there saturday may 10th, and I took a bunch of pictures, talked to one of the millers, learned a thing or two. The mill is a bit broken, so it is out of order until they replace one of the beams. All in all, it was a very satisfying experience.
Even more so because Susanna and Arie are my ancestors. And it’s very likely that they lived on that very same windmill.
The picture below was taken with a Nikon D100 with it’s hotmirror replaced with one that only lets through infrared light. The photoshop was pretty standard, and I removed a bit of dust that has apperently stuck to my sensor, as well as converting it to black and white.
Tagged with: B&W • black and white • extreme wideangle • family • geneology • infrared • mill • weijpoort • wideangle • windmill
Apr 25
Jeroen suggested I do something with a fisheye and the wall, and then defish it. I thought it would nice to do it, but I have yet to get my hand on decent defishing software.
I had a roll of fuji neopan 1600 in my nikon F100. Itook the picture below with my nikkor 16mm AF D @ f/5.6.
I had it developed (yes I was lazy and it took 4 days to get it developed (used to be two–this shows you that film is virtually dead) and scanned it in using my Nikon coolscan V ED. I used curves and black & white color setting in photoshop. I could because I scanned it as color film.
Maybe I should write a book: “50 ways to photograph a boring wall” 
Tagged with: black and white • F100 • film • fisheye • Fuji Neopan • ISO 1600 • old wall • slanted horizon • wall • wideangle
Nov 13
Last week I wiped the proverbial dust off my Nikon F100, loaded up some Neopan that was supposed to be used up by may 2007, put a 28mm lens on it and a red filter, then walked around Leiden snapping pictures during the whole week.
Today I got the negatives back (I know, I’m a lazy bum because I dont want to develop the film myself-well it serves me right that the fu…errr..darn thing is scratched 
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I scanned in the ones that looked most promising, and I think this wall looks pretty cool. It’s probably from between 1600 and 1800′s by the looks of it. I love the grain, the contrast.It’s a good oppertunity to get rid of the loads of film that occupy the bottom drawer of my fridge.
Tagged with: B&W • black and white • crumbling wall • f/2.8 • Fuji Neopan • high ISO • ISO 1600 • Leiden • Nikkor 28mm • Nikon F100 • shallow DOF • wall
Oct 24
On saturday the 20th I had a shoot with a bunch of friends from a Dutch photography message board. The assignment was to do a shoot of a fitness centre. There were six photographers, too many for such a small centre, but it was a hoot (as in slang for extremely funny) anyway. Afterwards we had a few drinks and laughs, finished with dinner at a shoarma restaurant owned by one of the photographer’s uncle.
Because the assigment was to be in black and white, I converted all my good stuff. Well to be honest, I was quite surprised I had anything good. The shot below is perhaps my favorite one, taken with the Nikkor 10.5 fisheye.
Tagged with: B&W • black and white • D200 • fisheye • fitness • nikkor 10.5mm • Nikon D200 • ultra wideangle • wideangle
