Naccarato Photography Blog

While digging through some photographs tonight looking for something else, I came across this Infrared photography I took at Lake Billy Chinook in Central Oregon this past summer.

I have a Nikon D300s body that I had converted for just this purpose.  The conversion is quite a process to do in which the “hot mirror” is removed so it allows IR light onto the sensor.  I can correct this by placing a hot mirror filter over the lens and doing some custom white balancing to shoot in normal tonal range.

I shot this image at 1/40, f/16, ISO 320 off a boat.  Not the ideal conditions to shoot at that low shutter speed, but it’s better than nothing if you want that depth of field, which I did.  A good starting point for custom white balancing is to start at 3000 kelvin.  It give a neutral b/w tone in which you can do some split toning at a later time.

Enjoy!

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This past weekend I had the pleasure of taking some images of police motorcycle officers from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Canada.  Every year the North American Motor Officers Association holds a 3-day training conference in one of those areas where officers practice the skills that keep them alive during their normal course of duties.  This year the host city was the City of Portland.

There were two obstacle courses set up that forced riders to make sharp and quick transitions from one pattern to the next, accelerate, brake, all while negotiating tight spaces.  There was a “slow” course to force balanced control of the motorcycle, a “barrel” course to practice hard acceleration and braking, as well as a pairs course to practice riding and working together.

On the final day riders compete against each other in all of these courses, except now they’re timed and watched by instructors to see if any cones are touched, etc.  At the end all the scores are calculated and categorized by motorcycle make, then awards are handed out at the Saturday night banquet.  It was an outstanding event.  Below are a few images I captured during one of the days.

Unfortunately, not long before this event, members of the Association lost one of their own when Eugene Police Motor Officer Chris KilCullen was killed in the line of duty.  Below is a video with some behind the scenes look at the procession.  It was shot and prepared by the talented Eugene & Heather Brown of 2duce2 Videography.

In memory of Oregon police officer Chris Kilcullen from 2Duce2 Films on Vimeo.

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