That false color image is rather fetching. I prefer it to the b&w rendition.
I can't say I have seen many pictures processed this way.
I need to go and check out those YouTube vids.
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 through Photoshop, and it may also be a bit limiting; but it makes for a more accessible starting point. ...Show more →
Thanks all for your likes and comments on my IR images. It seems that the majority agrees with my wife's preference for the false colour version of that photo. This doesn't surprise me---she has always had better taste than I have!
GeorgeBo wrote:
Wow great job Glen. I love that false color render. Something I have never attempted. I love the greens!
George
DeltaSigma wrote:
That false color image is rather fetching. I prefer it to the b&w rendition.
I can't say I have seen many pictures processed this way.
I need to go and check out those YouTube vids.
George and Colin, the filter I had installed in my X-T2 is a 590 nm, so-called "Super Colour" filter, rather than the 720 nm "Standard" filter or the 830 nm "Deep Black & White" IR filter, both of which have been more commonly chosen options---though this may be changing as mirrorless cameras and IR conversions become more popular. According to the people who know something about it, this means that my filter lets in more of the visible colour spectrum than the other two filters do, which very likely explains the vividness and variety of the colours I can draw out / introduce in post-processing.
Here are a few more examples of some of the possibilities I have started to discover, all of which started as photos taken with the 50 f/1.2 Ai-s. I did pass these ones through Photoshop, because it adds a range of variables (via applications of the channel mixer and the channel-specific levels adjustments, so far) that Lightroom just doesn't have readily available (as far as I know---please correct me if I am wrong). The range of possibilities for these false colour IR photos is then expanded even further by the filters in Color Efex Pro.
The first photo is presented in one monochrome version, and one false colour version. The second group includes a monochrome version and a false colour version of one photo and a false colour version of a different photo of the same subject as the previous pair. I find that, depending on the subject, the B&W version often creates quite a different emotional tone than the false colour versions. This is especially evident in the first pair. Please let me know what you think of each of these renditions.
GroWeb wrote:
Thanks all for your likes and comments on my IR images. It seems that the majority agrees with my wife's preference for the false colour version of that photo. This doesn't surprise me---she has always had better taste than I have!
George and Colin, the filter I had installed in my X-T2 is a 590 nm, so-called "Super Colour" filter, rather than the 720 nm "Standard" filter or the 830 nm "Deep Black & White" IR filter, both of which have been more commonly chosen options---though this may be changing as mirrorless cameras and IR conversions become more popular. According to the people who know something about it, this means that my filter lets in more of the visible colour spectrum than the other two filters do, which very likely explains the vividness and variety of the colours I can draw out / introduce in post-processing.
Here are a few more examples of some of the possibilities I have started to discover, all of which started as photos taken with the 50 f/1.2 Ai-s. I did pass these ones through Photoshop, because it adds a range of variables (via applications of the channel mixer and the channel-specific levels adjustments, so far) that Lightroom just doesn't have readily available (as far as I know---please correct me if I am wrong). The range of possibilities for these false colour IR photos is then expanded even further by the filters in Color Efex Pro.
The first photo is presented in one monochrome version, and one false colour version. The second group includes a monochrome version and a false colour version of one photo and a false colour version of a different photo of the same subject as the previous pair. I find that, depending on the subject, the B&W version often creates quite a different emotional tone than the false colour versions. This is especially evident in the first pair. Please let me know what you think of each of these renditions. ...Show more →
GroWeb wrote:
Thanks all for your likes and comments on my IR images. It seems that the majority agrees with my wife's preference for the false colour version of that photo. This doesn't surprise me---she has always had better taste than I have!
George and Colin, the filter I had installed in my X-T2 is a 590 nm, so-called "Super Colour" filter, rather than the 720 nm "Standard" filter or the 830 nm "Deep Black & White" IR filter, both of which have been more commonly chosen options---though this may be changing as mirrorless cameras and IR conversions become more popular. According to the people who know something about it, this means that my filter lets in more of the visible colour spectrum than the other two filters do, which very likely explains the vividness and variety of the colours I can draw out / introduce in post-processing.
Here are a few more examples of some of the possibilities I have started to discover, all of which started as photos taken with the 50 f/1.2 Ai-s. I did pass these ones through Photoshop, because it adds a range of variables (via applications of the channel mixer and the channel-specific levels adjustments, so far) that Lightroom just doesn't have readily available (as far as I know---please correct me if I am wrong). The range of possibilities for these false colour IR photos is then expanded even further by the filters in Color Efex Pro.
The first photo is presented in one monochrome version, and one false colour version. The second group includes a monochrome version and a false colour version of one photo and a false colour version of a different photo of the same subject as the previous pair. I find that, depending on the subject, the B&W version often creates quite a different emotional tone than the false colour versions. This is especially evident in the first pair. Please let me know what you think of each of these renditions. ...Show more →
GroWeb wrote:
Thanks all for your likes and comments on my IR images. It seems that the majority agrees with my wife's preference for the false colour version of that photo. This doesn't surprise me---she has always had better taste than I have!
George and Colin, the filter I had installed in my X-T2 is a 590 nm, so-called "Super Colour" filter, rather than the 720 nm "Standard" filter or the 830 nm "Deep Black & White" IR filter, both of which have been more commonly chosen options---though this may be changing as mirrorless cameras and IR conversions become more popular. According to the people who know something about it, this means that my filter lets in more of the visible colour spectrum than the other two filters do, which very likely explains the vividness and variety of the colours I can draw out / introduce in post-processing.
Here are a few more examples of some of the possibilities I have started to discover, all of which started as photos taken with the 50 f/1.2 Ai-s. I did pass these ones through Photoshop, because it adds a range of variables (via applications of the channel mixer and the channel-specific levels adjustments, so far) that Lightroom just doesn't have readily available (as far as I know---please correct me if I am wrong). The range of possibilities for these false colour IR photos is then expanded even further by the filters in Color Efex Pro.
The first photo is presented in one monochrome version, and one false colour version. The second group includes a monochrome version and a false colour version of one photo and a false colour version of a different photo of the same subject as the previous pair. I find that, depending on the subject, the B&W version often creates quite a different emotional tone than the false colour versions. This is especially evident in the first pair. Please let me know what you think of each of these renditions. ...Show more →
Glen, I preferred the color first round, but the monochrome in the latest series. In the first round, getting false color from the IR original seems to have softened up the contrast in the trees, which works well for the shot.
Great fisheye shot, George, feel like I'm down there in the water. (well, maybe frog eye level).
Nice capture Leighton, on both the leaves and the lettuce.
First class as usual, Scott. Classic fg, mid, and bg with excellent color. If the wind around here would calm down below 15mph I may try to head out to see what I can get.
GroWeb wrote:
Thanks all for your likes and comments on my IR images. It seems that the majority agrees with my wife's preference for the false colour version of that photo. This doesn't surprise me---she has always had better taste than I have!
George and Colin, the filter I had installed in my X-T2 is a 590 nm, so-called "Super Colour" filter, rather than the 720 nm "Standard" filter or the 830 nm "Deep Black & White" IR filter, both of which have been more commonly chosen options---though this may be changing as mirrorless cameras and IR conversions become more popular. According to the people who know something about it, this means that my filter lets in more of the visible colour spectrum than the other two filters do, which very likely explains the vividness and variety of the colours I can draw out / introduce in post-processing.
Here are a few more examples of some of the possibilities I have started to discover, all of which started as photos taken with the 50 f/1.2 Ai-s. I did pass these ones through Photoshop, because it adds a range of variables (via applications of the channel mixer and the channel-specific levels adjustments, so far) that Lightroom just doesn't have readily available (as far as I know---please correct me if I am wrong). The range of possibilities for these false colour IR photos is then expanded even further by the filters in Color Efex Pro.
The first photo is presented in one monochrome version, and one false colour version. The second group includes a monochrome version and a false colour version of one photo and a false colour version of a different photo of the same subject as the previous pair. I find that, depending on the subject, the B&W version often creates quite a different emotional tone than the false colour versions. This is especially evident in the first pair. Please let me know what you think of each of these renditions. ...Show more →
Glen,
I prefer the grayscale version, but the enhanced colour (590nm) version is very good. I shoot at 665nm, and sometimes my own colour versions are just too much for me. I created a camera profile as a starting point for my RAW IR photos which left me the option to go with a colour profile I like, or to mimic the 830nm black and white IR images which I almost always like. I combined Robert Reiser's camera profile info (Linked Here) with another person's Ideas I found last spring online and my own tweaks - to create my IR white balance profiles. For me - IR is like stacking a photography, and manual focus lens addiction - with another new IR addiction. I already knew that I have a bit of an addictive personality - so I am not surprised.
Jim
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 through Photoshop, and it may also be a bit limiting; but it makes for a more accessible starting point. ...Show more →
An outing with the D800 and the Nikkor 20mm f2.8 ais - more early colors
I have been breathless for years due to renal failure, and the Covid i caught in July made it worse.
The veteran that managed to sneak up on me in a wheelchair while shooting a GBH this summer
made me think. So this is what I added to my shooting gear - a mobility scooter. I know some
here have some health challenges, and I thought you may want to see other options of mobility.
There are risks doing this, but I minimized them to what I believe is an acceptable level. In the
last 30 days my wife and I have covered 60 miles of trails. It has been really wonderful getting
out and enjoying nature like I use to do. YMMV
