Fairyland Trail

[JimFox]

This is from Bryce Canyon National Park from 2 weeks ago. It's the Fairyland Trail area which I thought was a good place for some Fantasy processing with IR.

I used the Nikon D850 with a 720nm filter on it.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Ben Egbert]

Looks good Jim, sort of makes the clouds and canyon walls take on a magenta hue. You had some great clouds.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

The canyon looks great in the IR rendering. The magenta in the cloud somehow doesn’t seem to go well with the canyon.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice idea on what to do with that part of Bryce. Good comps aren't easy to come by up at that end.

 

[JimFox]

Looks good Jim, sort of makes the clouds and canyon walls take on a magenta hue. You had some great clouds.

Thanks so much Ben!

 

[JimFox]

The canyon looks great in the IR rendering. The magenta in the cloud somehow doesn’t seem to go well with the canyon.

Yeah, the magenta to me gives it an old 50’s feel. It’s funny how the sky can take on a different look so often.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Wow, this came out quite nice. I'm surprised that you can get that much color out of a 720nm. But the filter might act a little different than the actual conversion.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Interesting. I'm not a fan of most color IR, but this works as for me as fantasy/sci-fi artsy artsy. I wonder how it would work converted to B&W?

 

[Jim Peterson]

Nice take on a very commonly photographed place! What makes it interesting, to me, is that your IR process has removed most of the color from the most colorful element of the scene (the rocks) and instead placed it elsewhere (the foliage).

 

[JimFox]

Interesting. I'm not a fan of most color IR, but this works as for me as fantasy/sci-fi artsy artsy. I wonder how it would work converted to B&W?

Thanks Jim. I am enjoying the IR for it's more fantasy type of look.

I haven't progressed enough to figure out how to do B&W from the IR yet. I know there has to be more to it then simply desaturating it. I just haven't had the time to really figure out where in the IR workflow that I want to do it yet.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I agree with Jim Dockery. I don't usually like color IR but love B&W IR. I think this one would look great in B&W.

 

[beavens]

While I love mono IR, I think this shot is better suited to false color. As shown, it doesn't even appear to be as surreal as most false color (unless the actual color shot is miles different - I don't know Bryce all that well).

Converting to mono WOULD work, but I think you lose some of the subtlety in the light/mood if you did.

While not a deal-breaker, the shot seems to be a bit on the soft side?

Glad you're enjoying IR, Jim!

Jeff