Oil painting and Cartoon effect

Here are some photos that I'd process it into Cartoonist and Oil painting...effect....Hope it looks good! Here we Go....

DOF and IR photography

This is a few shots while strolling in a local garden. Trying out the D.O.F(Depth of Field) and I.R(Infrared) photography....here we go........

The EF 50mm lenses are a group of normal prime lenses made by Canon that share the same focal length.
These lenses have an EF type mount, that fits the Canon EOS line of cameras.
When used on a digital EOS body with a field of view compensation factor of 1.6x, such as the Canon EOS 400D, it provides a narrower field of view, equivalent to an 80mm lens mounted on a 35mm frame body. With a 1.3x body such as the Canon EOS-1D Mark III, it provides a less narrow field of view, equivalent to an 65mm lens mounted on a 35mm frame body.
Six EF 50mm lenses have been developed and sold. Two are L series lenses and three have Ultrasonic motors.
Since the f/1.2L, f/1.4 and f/1.8 lenses can provide very similar wide-aperture shots but have very different price tags, they have naturally been the subject of many in depth comparisons. I took all these shots in a Botanic garden.

Effect of Infrared Filter

In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. The part of the spectrum used is referred to as near-infrared to distinguish it from far-infrared, which is the domain of thermal imaging. Wavelengths used for photography range from about 700 nm to about 900 nm. Usually an "infrared filter" is used; this lets infrared (IR) light pass through to the camera, but blocks all or most of the visible light spectrum (the filter thus looks black or deep red).
When these filters are used together with infrared-sensitive film or sensors, very interesting "in-camera effects" can be obtained; false-color or black-and-white images with a dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance known as the "Wood Effect," an effect mainly caused by foliage (such as tree leaves and grass) strongly reflecting in the same way visible light is reflected from snow[1]. There is a small contribution from chlorophyll fluorescence, but this is extremely small and is not the real cause of the brightness seen in infrared photographs. The effect is named after the infrared photography pioneer Robert W. Wood, and not after the material wood, which does not glow under infrared.
The other attributes of infrared photographs include very dark skies and penetration of atmospheric haze, caused by reduced Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering, respectively, compared to visible light. The dark skies, in turn, result in less infrared light in shadows and dark reflections of those skies from water, and clouds will stand out strongly. These wavelengths also penetrate a few millimeters into skin and give a milky look to portraits, although eyes often look black.

Photos with Polarize Effect.

Hard Mix Produces a posterized image consisting of up to eight colors: red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, black and white. The blend color is a product of the base color and the luminosity of the blend layer. Here are a few of my altered effect.

Some Favorite Shots

These are some of my favorite shots and was much commented in my flickr profile. Putting it up to share with Photography lovers. Here we go.................