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.
