This last week we have been in the Kingdom of Fife, and by we I mean me and Sue and sister-in-law Diane. Sadly, with Sue's brother Mark having passed away, four became three for this adventure. For the first batch of images from Fife I have selected a short walk I made up the hill from our holiday cottage, through the farm and then looking back down over the wider landscape. This was a second opportunity to experiment with the IR-converted Samsung GX20, which of course is a Pentax K20D with a different coat on. The lens was the SMC Pentax-FA 20-35mm f/4 zoom, giving a useful "35mm equivalent" field of view of 30-52.5mm. The end result depends on many things, but primarily how much of the invisible (to the eye) IR light there actually is. Also very relevant is the reflectivity of the subject to that light and the processing decided upon in Photoshop. Whichever way it turns out, it goes from the surreal to high contrast, punchy black and white, both effects that I like, so win-win!
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