Some IR I had taken yesterday morning, C&C always welcome:


here's one...






and here's the "before" version:

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Haven't had time to take many pictures lately, (2 weeks, I was going crazy). My wife has been working her butt off, but that means I got to spend a lot of quality time with my son... Yesterday morning I snuck out wicked early and nabbed a few pictures.

[daacon]

I love the IR Dan- it does indeed belong in the Sci-Fi catagory - expecting Mulder and Scully to pop in at any momment.

Edit - I mean number 1 as well - outstanding composition

Dave

[Peter Zack]

I gotta try this IR stuff. Number 3 is a "nice" shot but number one is stunning, beautiful and surreal at the same time. As soon as it opened I was in awe. 2 is good as well but overshadowed by the first image.

[aabram]

I think I have to start your IR pictures fanclub. First one is just pure brilliance. Reminds me the movie Avalon.

[channeler]

All good pics but no 1 is stunning/dramatic with an other worldly feel. Great composition also.

PaUL

[Sailor]

Surreal. I have no idea how to PP like this, but I wish I did. Looks like an alien - but altogether pleasant - world: "beam me down, Scotty".

Jer

[Duh_Vinci]

All are very nice, but #1 is stunning indeed!!! Very dramatic feel, wonderfully composed, wow!!!

What are you using for this IR setup?

Regards,
D

[khardur]

I'm no IR expert, by any means. I've taken maybe 50 IR pictures with this camera, and that's a generous estimate.
But here's what I do, setup and post processing. (and it really is very minimal PP)

Setup:
Hoya RM72 filter on, take a white balance reading off a sunny patch of grass (have it set in manual with aperture open full, or pump up the exposure compensation to +2 before you take a WB reading, or else you'll get a "NG" which I assume means "no good".
Then I take the filter off and compose the scene, put the filter back on and (autofocus) and take the shot. Now taking a WB reading really isn't necessary, because you can do it all processing the RAW, but I like to get it close so I can see better on the LCD what I've got.

Post Processing
I open up the image in PS Elements 5, in the white balance I'm usually setting the color temperature around 2200 with tint of around -55 to -60. (This is in ACR, I don't know how that tint value converts to other programs)
I came up with this by using the white balance tool in ACR and just clicking around the picture to find a point I liked, then maybe tweaked it a little from there.

ACR also has a both a vibrance and a saturation slider, but they're only at around +10 to +20.
I've tried pushing those way up to see how it affects things, and you can come up with some really wild stuff, but I have a preference for the sepia-like feel of how these ones came out.

That's it - like I said, not really a lot in the way of PP, only setting the color temperature and tint when converting the RAW.

I highly encourage you all to try it if you can, it's very addicting.

[khardur]

aabram: sounds like a very good movie, after I checked out the link. I'll have to see if any of my local rental stores have it, or perhaps try Netflix or something, sounds like something I would enjoy watching.

and thanks for the comments (everyone).

-Dan

[LaRee]

Wow I love that first image. Very nice IR work.

[silverbullet]

Amazing pictures! I really need to get a R72 filter, althoug I don't expect the same fantastic results

Chris

[roentarre]

These images are spetacular! I would dream to have these images taken by myself

[little laker]

That does it, I'm ordering a IR filter tomorrow

Oh, Dan, Nice Pic's

[codiac2600]

Stuning Dan and it makes me want to spend the bid bucks on an IR filter!!!!!

[khardur]

Stuning Dan and it makes me want to spend the bid bucks on an IR filter!!!!!

Chris: not big bucks... if you can bag your lunch a few days you could get one, depending on your filter size... This one (52mm Hoya RM72) only costs $40.

Best birthday present my wife ever got me.
I suggested it to her, but that makes no difference.