More adventures in IR

pursuer · Oct 17, 2005

Im still playing with different treatments for my IR photos

Second exposure used for color

red and blue channel switched

Thanks for looking

Chiller · Oct 17, 2005

Holy cow. These are really amazing. The first shot could be a greeting card. Excellent work.!!!

terri · Oct 17, 2005

The top image certainly doesn't look like an IR shot, but it is still very nice. Looks like a desaturated fall-type image, but I think it looks great here under that gray, wintry sky. Very nice!

I don't care for the last two, sorry, just not my thing.

Nikon Fan · Oct 17, 2005

Love the last...can you explain your processing a bit more on that one? Love the first one too

micatlady · Oct 17, 2005

I LOVE

the third one! Makes me want to run out and buy some IR film to shoot. The trees are really cool.

JonMikal · Oct 17, 2005

check this out pursuer:

http://www.pbase.com/catson/color_infrared_workflow

pursuer · Oct 17, 2005

Thanks everyone! Jon thanks alot for the link, it should be helpful I never thought of selectivly desaturating certain hues. I will give it a try in a bit and let you know how it works.

Amanda the processing on the last two is pretty simple. I did a color balance in adobe's RAW editer by using the eyedropper and selecting something that should have been neutral, the image still had a red tint but now it looked more natural.

Then once I had the image in PS I switched the red and blue channels useing the channel mixer. In the channel mixer select the red channel and set red to 0% and blue to 100% then select the blue channel and set blue to 0% and red to 100%.

After that I just did a quick level adjustment.

Nikon Fan · Oct 17, 2005

Ahhh...I've never tried shooting them in RAW format...I'll have to give that a whirl

pursuer · Oct 17, 2005

eromallagadnama said:
Ahhh...I've never tried shooting them in RAW format...I'll have to give that a whirl

You should see a big difference in the end result shooting in RAW. Try it out, you wont go back

Canoncan · Oct 17, 2005

pursuer very nice work. I love all three, well composed and nice processing. We have a saying go Raw or go home. If you have never tried Pixmantec's Raw Shooters essentials give it a try. It is now used by more pro's than Adobe for converting.
http://www.pixmantec.com/index2.html

pursuer · Oct 18, 2005

WOW, I can't thank you enougth for the tip. I had heard that other people use alternatives to adobe's RAW editer but I had never bothered to try one. I downloaded
Raw Shooters essentials and gave it a try and boy was I impressed. Very intuitive and streamlined. It runs ALOT faster then the adobe editer on my system. It seems to give alot more control over the contrast as well.

Jon I got some great ideas from the link you gave me Im still playing with a few things but I think I have a pretty good workflow now that improves upon the one in the tutorial.

Here is one of the images from above reworked with Raw Shooters essentials.
Thanks again guys.