Infrared Photography IV
How to Take Infrared Photographs
Shot with a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L IS USM Lens at 31mm, f/11, 1/250s, ISO 400 on an IR modified Canon 5D Mk II.
Infrared Photography |||
How to Take Infrared Photographs
Shot with a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L IS USM Lens at 28mm, f/11, 1/250s, ISO 400 on an IR modified Canon 5D Mk II.
Grotto Mountain
Location: Alberta, Canada
Participants: Jimmy Quigley, Patrick Latter
Time: 7 Hours
Weather: -10°C
Directions
From Calgary take the Trans-Canada Highway to Canmore. There follow signs to The Alpine Club of Canada. More road detail to follow. Check in with the folks at the ACC before parking in the Clubhouse parking lot. The space is limited so guest will have first rights. You can park further down the road if the lot is full.
Gear
- Hiking Boots
- Food
- Water
- Warm ski jacket
- Warm fleece
- Warm socks (or 2 layers of socks)
- Toque
- Snow-pants or gaiters
- Gloves
Map
Story
The hike begins at the alpine club and it isn’t long until you have a great view of the mountains across the valley. We started the hike at 6:45am, which was early enough to get an amazing red glow touching the opposing mountain tops.
A closer view of the 3 sisters. From left to right, the little sister, the middle sister and the big sister. I’d like to hike 2 of 3 this summer.
It was relatively easy going for the first 2/3rds. Some of the snow had begun to melt and there was well defined trail in the snow.
Once we broke through the tree line the snow quickly deepened as we hugged the left ridge.
We loved grotto for the fact that that it’s basically a very long ridge walk to the summit. Great views the whole way!
We stopped to grab some lunch and take some pictures at the summit. We didn’t stay long as there was very strong cold wind coming over the top and no where to gain shelter from it.
Turns out Lucha Libre masks make for amazing wind breaks.
Heading back down was easy going as we just traced back our recently placed footsteps in the snow.
Jimmy risking his life for another photo op.
Canmore Snow Storm
I LOVE making photographs in bad weather. These were all taken along the many pathways around the small town of Canmore in the Canadian Rockies. The 4th photo reminded me of a cupped hand reflected in the water.
Canmore Mountains
I took this photo this past weekend on a cold morning in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. On the left you can see ‘Ha Ling Peak’ and the right you can see ‘East End of Rundle’.
Canmore
Background
There are tons of great walking paths around the town of Canmore. This one even includes a boardwalk over some marshy areas that follow along the river.
Cross Country Skiing by a Full Moon
Participants: Ian Grant, Winston Latter, Julian Tejada, Adam Kwiecinski, Jimmy Quigley, Eric Tulk, Patrick Latter
Start: Canmore, Alberta, Canada – 12:00am
Finish: Banff, Alberta, Canada – 4:00am
Distance: 18.7 km
Time: 4 Hours
Weather: -20.6 °C (-5 °F)
Directions
From Canmore follow the directions in town towards the ‘Nordic Center‘. Continue on around the reservoir and dam until you reach the ‘Goat Creek‘ trailhead parking lot.
Gear
- Cross Country Skis
- Cross Country Boots
- Cross Country Poles
- Food
- Water
- Warm ski jacket
- Warm fleece
- Warm socks (or 2 layers of socks)
- Toque
- Thermal underwear
- Snow-pants or gaiters
- Gloves
Photographic Information
All shots were with a 24mm at F1.4 and iso 12800 handheld. The only issue become actually focusing the camera in such low light. I would get somebody to hold up a flash light and use this to focus and then turn the flash light off when I was ready to shoot. To ensure sharpness with such low shutter speeds, I would take 4 or 5 shots in rapid succession to increase the chances of getting a shot that was usable.
Story
We arrived at the Goat Creek parking lot just before midnight and began getting our freshly rented skis ready to go.
The full moon made for an eerie almost daylight like appearance to the landscape. The moon light was so bright that it was casting strong shadows across the trail.
Despite the cold temperatures, all the physical activity had us shedding layers only a few km into the trail.
Reaching the largest bridge on the trail marked the end the downhill section. From here it’s mainly up hill until you reach Banff.
The further we made it in, the greater the accumulated snow fall seemed to be. There were huge clumps of snow still hanging from the low lying trees.
Adam officially won the coveted most frozen beard award.
“Winter is coming…”
Background
Many of my favourite hikes are not far from the small mountain town of Canmore. An amazing little town with great people. This is one of the pedestrian bridges in town just this past Spring. Looking forward to winter and snow 
