2nd time with IR

JimFox

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And my unoriginal Thread titles continue. :)

So taking @Amy Nelson list of instructions posted in my 1st Time with IR thread, I took one of the other photos I had shot at the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve area. I only took about a dozen shots maybe just to play around and get some test images to work on. So after wrapping up sunrise, I switched my attention to IR.

A couple of things to note. My camera, the Nikon D850 is stock, it's not converted to IR or anything. I simply had bought a 720nm IR filter (77mm) that I can screw onto one of my lenses, in this case it was the 16-35mm Nikon I believe. Now using these filters, they are as thick as a 10 stop ND at least. maybe a 20 stop. :) So my 1/200th of a sec exposures without the filter turned to 30 sec exposures with it on. So, a tripod was necessary.

I rarely use the Live View on my camera, I just use the optical viewfinder. But with the IR, since I can simulate exposure on the Live View, I found myself glad that I had it.

So the processing this time followed Amy's steps, which basically involve a better White Balance, using a Color Profile setup for my camera with the 720nm Filter on it. Doing the Channel swap through the Channel Mixer, and some slight tweaks to the color to taste. That's really it. Once I had gotten the Color Profile set up for the camera, the rest of the process went super fast.

So, @beavens @Amy Nelson @Jim Peterson and anyone else, please let me know how this one turned out. For me it turned out almost exactly like I had hoped.

Jim

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AlanLichty

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This looks more like other IR images I have seen.

30s is a long exposure for anything that moves even slightly so I can certainly see some advantages to a dedicated camera body with a converted sensor.
 

JimFox

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This looks more like other IR images I have seen.

30s is a long exposure for anything that moves even slightly so I can certainly see some advantages to a dedicated camera body with a converted sensor.
Thanks Alan.

I think that’s why in the old days there was such a drawback to it, but why there was a resurgence I think when getting sensors modified in Digital cameras allowed the exposure to be just about normal and a person could handhold their IR cameras. But the conversions cost money, so just using the old fashioned IR filter seems like a good way to test the water to see if it’s something I will enjoy enough to get a camera dedicated to it. Plus, it gives me some experience with the IR to know which wave length it is that I would want to convert the camera over to. I don’t want to make the wrong choice.
 

Jim Peterson

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@JimFox - good work! The result you've achieved is a very typical result for the processing you used, and - as you discovered - installing a custom profile for your camera in your Adobe software greatly simplifies the WB adjustment. You're well on your way be becoming an IR postprocessing master!
 

JimFox

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@JimFox - good work! The result you've achieved is a very typical result for the processing you used, and - as you discovered - installing a custom profile for your camera in your Adobe software greatly simplifies the WB adjustment. You're well on your way be becoming an IR postprocessing master!
Thanks so much Jim! It's really a lot of fun, now I need to put on my IR eyeballs and go out today and see what else I could capture that would look good in IR.
 

MonikaC

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And my unoriginal Thread titles continue. :)

So taking @Amy Nelson list of instructions posted in my 1st Time with IR thread, I took one of the other photos I had shot at the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve area. I only took about a dozen shots maybe just to play around and get some test images to work on. So after wrapping up sunrise, I switched my attention to IR.

A couple of things to note. My camera, the Nikon D850 is stock, it's not converted to IR or anything. I simply had bought a 720nm IR filter (77mm) that I can screw onto one of my lenses, in this case it was the 16-35mm Nikon I believe. Now using these filters, they are as thick as a 10 stop ND at least. maybe a 20 stop. :) So my 1/200th of a sec exposures without the filter turned to 30 sec exposures with it on. So, a tripod was necessary.

I rarely use the Live View on my camera, I just use the optical viewfinder. But with the IR, since I can simulate exposure on the Live View, I found myself glad that I had it.

So the processing this time followed Amy's steps, which basically involve a better White Balance, using a Color Profile setup for my camera with the 720nm Filter on it. Doing the Channel swap through the Channel Mixer, and some slight tweaks to the color to taste. That's really it. Once I had gotten the Color Profile set up for the camera, the rest of the process went super fast.

So, @beavens @Amy Nelson @Jim Peterson and anyone else, please let me know how this one turned out. For me it turned out almost exactly like I had hoped.

Jim

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You could have called it something like "IR 2 D2"
 

beavens

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Hard for me to really comment both on the filter use and processing. I've only ever used converted cameras and rarely process false color.

What I can say is that after shooting IR for a while you start to "see" what works best in infrared. You'll notice contrasts and colors that react well with the (very bright) sun that IR does best in.

If you want to shoot Canon crop I can sell you my converted 665nm body.:D

Jeff
 

JimFox

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Hard for me to really comment both on the filter use and processing. I've only ever used converted cameras and rarely process false color.

What I can say is that after shooting IR for a while you start to "see" what works best in infrared. You'll notice contrasts and colors that react well with the (very bright) sun that IR does best in.

If you want to shoot Canon crop I can sell you my converted 665nm body.:D

Jeff
ummm….. no o_O

But thanks anyway.... ;)
 
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