Ray - Great shot in the window genre. I didn't notice the shirt until I processed the image, and now I wish I had bought it! Would have been the perfect accessory to wear with the attached photo below.
James - That GBH has quite the multicolored semi-abstract background, very cool.
So I received my IR converted X-T2 in the mail last week, and I took it out this weekend to introduce myself to this entirely new-to-me modality. After bringing the images home, I was faced with the decidedly daunting task of figuring out how to process these files in Lightroom and Photoshop. LifePixel's camera conversion price includes a 30-minute live, individual tutorial with their resident expert-instructor. But that will not be happening for me until October 31, so it was up to me, Google, and YouTube to figure out some sort of a preliminary understanding of how to create some semblance of an acceptable result. So, here is my first, stumbling and lisping effort at processing an infrared image from my newly converted X-T2. For this image, the 50mm f/1.2 Ai-s was my worthy assistant, with help from the Mitakon Zhongyi focal reducer (doing double-duty as protector of the no longer self-cleaning X-T2 sensor---a loss exacted by the conversion procedure). On the software side of things, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Silver Efex Pro 3 worked as a team to make me look as competent as they could manage. After October 31---and maybe even before then---I expect to get better at this; but in the meantime, I'm having a blast!
Yikes - it doesn't look like a Rafael condition lens either.
Funny! I would not buy it with all those dings!. If the Nikon Museum prototypes were stolen, that would have been me, except I would not sell them but keep them all.
There are probably 120 of the 58mm 1.0, the one in the auction seems like the first one, but there are mint copies out there. Redbook Nikkor showcases one with high resolution photos in the 55mm 1.2 CRT section.
GroWeb wrote:
So I received my IR converted X-T2 in the mail last week, and I took it out this weekend to introduce myself to this entirely new-to-me modality. After bringing the images home, I was faced with the decidedly daunting task of figuring out how to process these files in Lightroom and Photoshop. LifePixel's camera conversion price includes a 30-minute live, individual tutorial with their resident expert-instructor. But that will not be happening for me until October 31, so it was up to me, Google, and YouTube to figure out some sort of a preliminary understanding of how to create some semblance of an acceptable result. So, here is my first, stumbling and lisping effort at processing an infrared image from my newly converted X-T2. For this image, the 50mm f/1.2 Ai-s was my worthy assistant, with help from the Mitakon Zhongyi focal reducer (doing double-duty as protector of the no longer self-cleaning X-T2 sensor---a loss exacted by the conversion procedure). On the software side of things, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Silver Efex Pro 3 worked as a team to make me look as competent as they could manage. After October 31---and maybe even before then---I expect to get better at this; but in the meantime, I'm having a blast!...Show more →
Well, I think you did great for your first attempt.
GroWeb wrote:
So I received my IR converted X-T2 in the mail last week, and I took it out this weekend to introduce myself to this entirely new-to-me modality. After bringing the images home, I was faced with the decidedly daunting task of figuring out how to process these files in Lightroom and Photoshop. LifePixel's camera conversion price includes a 30-minute live, individual tutorial with their resident expert-instructor. But that will not be happening for me until October 31, so it was up to me, Google, and YouTube to figure out some sort of a preliminary understanding of how to create some semblance of an acceptable result. So, here is my first, stumbling and lisping effort at processing an infrared image from my newly converted X-T2. For this image, the 50mm f/1.2 Ai-s was my worthy assistant, with help from the Mitakon Zhongyi focal reducer (doing double-duty as protector of the no longer self-cleaning X-T2 sensor---a loss exacted by the conversion procedure). On the software side of things, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Silver Efex Pro 3 worked as a team to make me look as competent as they could manage. After October 31---and maybe even before then---I expect to get better at this; but in the meantime, I'm having a blast!...Show more →
You did great. I am looking forward to more from your X-T2.
By trying out a few things yourself you will get more out of the 30min tutorial session.
I have tailored LR presets for particular lenses as well as a generic starting point preset for the camera that I apply during import to LR.
Colin
GroWeb wrote:
So I received my IR converted X-T2 in the mail last week, and I took it out this weekend to introduce myself to this entirely new-to-me modality. After bringing the images home, I was faced with the decidedly daunting task of figuring out how to process these files in Lightroom and Photoshop. LifePixel's camera conversion price includes a 30-minute live, individual tutorial with their resident expert-instructor. But that will not be happening for me until October 31, so it was up to me, Google, and YouTube to figure out some sort of a preliminary understanding of how to create some semblance of an acceptable result. So, here is my first, stumbling and lisping effort at processing an infrared image from my newly converted X-T2. For this image, the 50mm f/1.2 Ai-s was my worthy assistant, with help from the Mitakon Zhongyi focal reducer (doing double-duty as protector of the no longer self-cleaning X-T2 sensor---a loss exacted by the conversion procedure). On the software side of things, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Silver Efex Pro 3 worked as a team to make me look as competent as they could manage. After October 31---and maybe even before then---I expect to get better at this; but in the meantime, I'm having a blast!...Show more →
GroWeb wrote:
So I received my IR converted X-T2 in the mail last week, and I took it out this weekend to introduce myself to this entirely new-to-me modality. After bringing the images home, I was faced with the decidedly daunting task of figuring out how to process these files in Lightroom and Photoshop. LifePixel's camera conversion price includes a 30-minute live, individual tutorial with their resident expert-instructor. But that will not be happening for me until October 31, so it was up to me, Google, and YouTube to figure out some sort of a preliminary understanding of how to create some semblance of an acceptable result. So, here is my first, stumbling and lisping effort at processing an infrared image from my newly converted X-T2. For this image, the 50mm f/1.2 Ai-s was my worthy assistant, with help from the Mitakon Zhongyi focal reducer (doing double-duty as protector of the no longer self-cleaning X-T2 sensor---a loss exacted by the conversion procedure). On the software side of things, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Silver Efex Pro 3 worked as a team to make me look as competent as they could manage. After October 31---and maybe even before then---I expect to get better at this; but in the meantime, I'm having a blast!...Show more →
Leighton, Jim, Colin, and Scott: thank you for your kind and encouraging words!
Here is today's installment of my travelogue of infrared fun. I did a bit more YouTube learning, mainly through two excellent videos by a photographer named Rob Shea, called "Secret to White Balance in Infrared Photography" and "More Secrets to White Balance in Infrared Photography" (sorry, YouTube links don't seem to work as links in a post on this forum). As a result, I was able to make two very different versions of the same photo, one of which is monochrome and the other of which applies false colour. I prefer the monochrome image, but my wife likes the "fairyland" look of the false colour image. What do you guys think? By the way, I'm thinking I might just test the patience of you, my MFNG colleagues, by posting some comparisons like this one in order to refine my sense of what does and does not work well in this infrared modality. I thank you in advance for your tolerance!
This photo (please excuse the huge "artistic" lens flare at the top left) is brought to you courtesy of the 50mm f/1.2 Ai-s, first in false colour (with help from Color Efex Pro 5), then in monochrome (with help from Silver Efex Pro 3). Thanks to some "colour swap profiles" that I purchased from Rob Shea (there is a link to those profiles below the second video I mentioned above), I did not need to use Photoshop for these, just Lightroom and the two plugins mentioned. This is a bit lazier than going through Photoshop, and it may also be a bit limiting; but it makes for a more accessible starting point.
Wow great job Glen. I love that false color render. Something I have never attempted. I love the greens!
George
GroWeb wrote:
Leighton, Jim, Colin, and Scott: thank you for your kind and encouraging words!
Here is today's installment of my travelogue of infrared fun. I did a bit more YouTube learning, mainly through two excellent videos by a photographer named Rob Shea, called "Secret to White Balance in Infrared Photography" and "More Secrets to White Balance in Infrared Photography" (sorry, YouTube links don't seem to work as links in a post on this forum). As a result, I was able to make two very different versions of the same photo, one of which is monochrome and the other of which applies false colour. I prefer the monochrome image, but my wife likes the "fairyland" look of the false colour image. What do you guys think? By the way, I'm thinking I might just test the patience of you, my MFNG colleagues, by posting some comparisons like this one in order to refine my sense of what does and does not work well in this infrared modality. I thank you in advance for your tolerance!
This photo (please excuse the huge "artistic" lens flare at the top left) is brought to you courtesy of the 50mm f/1.2 Ai-s, first in false colour (with help from Color Efex Pro 5), then in monochrome (with help from Silver Efex Pro 3). Thanks to some "colour swap profiles" that I purchased from Rob Shea (there is a link to those profiles below the second video I mentioned above), I did not need to use Photoshop for these, just Lightroom and the two plugins mentioned. This is a bit lazier than going to Photoshop, and it may also be a bit limiting; but it makes for a more accessible starting point. ...Show more →
That's a beauty George, and I love the perspective.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Recent shots here pushed me to knock the dust off my 16/3.5 and take it on my after work walk this evening. Getting darker earlier for sure.
Fall colors starting to show here. Fisheye lens from close to a fish eyes view. Set on a rock in the stream.
I am having trouble keeping up with the number of photos I have been shooting lately. It is a lot to image them properly, but I am not complaining. We have rain for the next few days - so maybe I will get caught up.
IR Meadow from October 10th - Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd
