New growth Fir tree (old Christmas tree)

[dabateman]

Yes I still have my Christmas tree up. Its doing well and has some new growth shooting off. So since I have a halogen bulb and didn't need to deal with Billy, I took some images with various filter combinations.

 

These are straight out of camera, like all my images because I have 10 years of back log of photos to edit.

 

Full spectrum Olympus EM1 using Olympus 30mm f3.5 Macro lens at F5.6 and ISO 200 for all images. I did not shoot a custom white balance card for each filter. That may have been better, just dialed in what I had.

 

Visible (Used an SD15 UV/IR cut filter):

 

KG3 + Lee 729 with custom white balance 6000K (1 second):

 

GRB3 + Lee 729 with custom white balance 6000K (1/1.3 second):

 

GRB3 + Lee 183 with custom white balance 4000K (1/2 second):

 

GRB3 + Luminol (Dichroic blue filter as badly cleaned) with custom white balance 4000K (1/2 second):

 

GRB3 + Tiffen #47 with custom white balance present I use with Baader Venus filter (WB1) (1/2 second):

 

GRB3 only with custom white balance 3400K (1/8 second):

 

FLD filter (WB1) (1/40 second):

 

Long pass 760nm filter (WB1) (1/25 second):

[dabateman]

Extra photo

Olympus EM1 full spectrum Olympus 30mm f3.5 lens at F5.6 ISO200.

 

KG3 with Lee 729, custom white balance 6000K, with ambient window light and background incandescent lamps, shutter speed 5 seconds:

 

All previous photos above were lit with a single Halogen lamp with ambient window light, which clearly doesn't offer much.

[Bill De Jager]

Botanical note: the tree appears to be "Douglas-fir" Pseudotsuga menziesii, not a true fir but commonly called one. The hyphen was an attempt by foresters to distinguish it from true firs but is usually dropped/ignored. Natural range is Pacific Northwest coast and mountains of western North America, but widely grown as a Christmas tree.