Bad Moon Rising

Bad Moon Rising, originally uploaded by MonkeyPaw2u.

This was shot with a beautiful 500mm zoom lens. I like this the most out of all of moon shots.

Solitary

Solitary, originally uploaded by MonkeyPaw2u.

Selective coloring version of Solitary.

Ring Around The Sun

Ring Around The Sun, originally uploaded by MonkeyPaw2u.

Another shot at an Icebow.

Selective Color - Flower BW

Selective Color - Flower BW, originally uploaded by MonkeyPaw2u.

Selective color processing this time focusing the color to the background elements, rather than the flower.

What do you think?

Selective Color - Flower

Selective Color - Flower, originally uploaded by MonkeyPaw2u.

Selective color processing focusing the color to the flower elements, rather than the background.

What do you think?

IR Touch The Sun

IR Touch The Sun, originally uploaded by MonkeyPaw2u.

How close can you get to the sun before you burn up?

This was shot testing a new Infrared Filter I picked up last week. The filter is a Hoya R72 58mm Lens Filter. The cost was $45 dollars (which included shipping). Now I have to figure out how to use it properly.

The filter blocks out 99% of visible light. So unless your subject is extremely lit, like the sun, you will have to set your exposure to 15 seconds or more to get any detail. Because I was shooting directly at the sun the shutter fired at 1/320th of a second.