Introduction
I mentioned a while back how I was getting my Nikon D7100 converted with a partial colour infrared filter.
Well the combination of rain, my photography computer dying, Christmas and various other things have meant that I haven't had much of a chance to test it out.
Today I had a little time and a weather window that allowed me to do that.
There are only a few photos here that I have edited as it is a long drawn out process to make these look right:
- I have to open them and manually correct White Balance in the Nikon Raw Converter.
- Then I have to edit them in Photoshop to do a red/blue channel swap to make the sky blue.
- I can then import them into Lightroom as per my usual workflow for adjusting exposure, noise, cropping etc.
It may not sound like a lot but it does add up when you are doing multiple photos! Anyway I hope you like them:)
Feel free to use them in your own posts if you want as per Steemit4free.
A Few Photos of the Old Church
I have presented some regular B&W photos of this before. I have a lot more photos which I will try to edit when I have time. I like how these turned out though. The colours are so strange.
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The moon was visible here although I didn't have a suitable zoom lens with me but it makes a nice test shot
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This scene is a good illustration of how light and contrast is different with IR photos.
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This is another church near me. The contrast means it is hard to preserve details in the shadows. There is an anchor with the cross.
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These look so sweet and amazing. I love the surreal effect...and would love to know if this 'look' is done more in the post-production of the shot, or if you are getting this style right off the camera? Either way, I've been involved with digital photo manipulation for a long time and whether this is post or just camera....I'm really impressed.
I've recently just started to take photographs and I still consider myself an amateur...so I'm just asking out of curiosity. Although, I've added Magic Lantern firmware to my Canon camera and I'm really digging the results.
No it's not straight out of the camera - they have to be white balanced in software because the standard white balance on cameras is not designed for the type of image that infrared produces. Then after that the red and blue channels are flipped to give a blue sky.
If you want to see how they look straight out of the camera with regular white balance (and no channel swap) you can see a couple in this post (at the top):
https://steemit.com/photography/@thecryptofiend/more-surreal-ir-photography-experiments-from-newcastle-feel-free-to-use-them-in-your-posts
Very cool...and nice skills. I like the looks of both before and after your infrared shots. I guess I should do more experiments with channels. Thanks.
You're welcome thank you:)
This is IR? Are they artificially colored? Cool photos though man.
Yes it is IR with partial colour - a 590nm filter. So unlike those completely artificially coloured photos there is some actual colour in them but it is not exactly accurate because there is no way to convey IR red information without giving it false colour.
Further the blue and red channels are swapped to make the sky blue. You can keep them without swapping the channels too and it gives more of an orange tone to them - but either way it is technically mostly artificial colour.
Lifepixel is a great site which explains the different IR filter types and the artistic ways they can be used. The following page has a comparison of the colour options if you are interested:
https://www.lifepixel.com/infrared-filters-choices
At what time are these taken....i mean in daylight or moonlight i cant figure out...anyways cool pics nice and terrefic work @cryptofiend keep it up
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That's the thing these were taken late afternoon but in bright sunlight! That is how IR can surprise you:)
Amazing images , Its like a movie , with a strange plot.
The effort shows and the light is stunning !
Love it!
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Thanks will do:)
It's amazing pictures!!
Your job is very good dear @thecryptofiend :))
Thank you. These are just a quick test. Hope to have better ones as I get more experience with IR.
It is ridiculous how talented you are at so many things.
You are too kind mate:)
Your photos share so much more than just a visual aid, they capture the emotion and nostalgia of having visited them myself! Thank you so much for sharing. It's the closest I've ever been to travelling abroad!
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You're welcome. I'm pleased you enjoy them:)
I truely did!
or is it better to say - to the pic
you always produce somethinig magical :)@thecryptofiend I love what you did to the sky ^ ^
Thank you:)
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Thank you:)
Awesome, how long did you have to expose? Hope you post more! DIY conversion?
These were just normal exposures between 1/125 and 1/500 depending on the light. A bit of guesswork and experimentation is involved with infrared. The conversion was professionally done.
Thank you for posting @thecryptofiend.
Lovely photographs....expressive...evocative...and tutorial.
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All the best. Cheers.
Thank you for your kind words:)
Always good to see your perspective and learn what we can do. Thanks.
Thank you my friend:)
I've always been fascinated how IR treats vegetation/foliage. I tried shooting a roll of IR film back in about 1999 or 2000 when I worked at the camera store. You had to load the film in pitch blackness or you'd ruin the entire roll. You also had to be careful which cameras you put them in because some of them had IR sensors for reading the film canisters that would fog IR film (and the camera makers assumed people wouldn't use IR film enough to justify leaving that feature out).
B/W IR film is very dreamy and beautiful. Color IR is much more trippy, but equally as beautful. I dig the samples. Can't wait to see you really flex your muscles with it. :)
That's the thing, since we can't see IR it is easy to make a mistake!
I would love to see you do a video with it at some point. It's still not cheap but at least now you don't have to pay for film!
I've been looking at how-to videos for converted, video-shooting cameras on how to color balance them, but I shoot Canon and I know that IR filter would be incredibly difficult to work with on the weak ISO capabilities of EOS gear. Nikon and/or Sony would probably be ideal for this considering their sensors.
I think Canon are good enough. Lifepixel have some Canon's preconverted for sale I think.
The colour balance on video is something I have been wondering about too - the videos I have seen just use the in camera white balance without the channel swap which doesn't give the blue skies. I'm sure there must be a way to do it - even if it takes a long time.
I know they're definitely good at shooting IR photos since shutter speed is negotiable with still images, but that IR filter is so dark that I'd worry about shooting video since I like to shoot with a 180º shutter (1/50th sec shutter on 24fps), so even with bright sunlight, I'm curious to know if it's enough light for proper exposure..
OK you are talking about using an external IR filter - I don't think you could shoot video that way. I'm talking about an internal conversion for IR - you don't need super light sensitivity for that.
Very creative! Loved the photographs! i will definitely try the same!
Cool. Please share them:)
These pictures are great! I like how the colors make the photographs look unrealistic.
Thanks - yes the "alien" colours are what drew me to these kind of shots:)
Great stuff
Thank you:)
You always produce amazing photos!! I absolutely adore the turquoise colour sky as it compliments the church beautifully!
Still trying to learn more about taking great photos. Have learnt so much from just looking at yours! Thanks!
Thanks so much for your kind words. The weird colours is what I like so much about these partial colour IR shots. It looks so surreal:)
#2 is my favorite. Great Pics!
Thank you:)
The sky's look fantastic, eerie, love then :)
Thanks - yes they are a very weird blue:)
These are really nice photos and I absolutely love the shade of blue/green skies. It certainly makes the grey brick of the churches stand out and enhance the details. I totally understand what you mean by those few steps adding up when you have a lot of photos to edit!
Yes plus it takes ages going in and out of different bits of software. It would be awesome if I could just do it all in Lightroom:)
IR is great ... I'm planning to buy an SIGMA dslr with a removable hot mirror for that ...
Cool is that one of the ones with a foveon sensor? Have always been interested to see the results from those:)
I have a foveon sensor in my DP1 but it also has a fixed hot mirror - you can check the quality here and here (you can see the full size photos by dragging them to your browser's adress bar ... i haven't added links unfortunatelly)
It has 4MPs but is almost always better than my other current cameras ... Not really good in low light though ...
Cool thanks:) Wow I think that foveon sensor gives a little extra clarity compared to a conventional sensor. I would love to test one of their DSLRs.
This one looks nice ;)
Yes that is the one I was thinking of!
You are photo-master.
You are too kind!
cool!
Thanks:)
Nice shots and well edited.
Much work.
The contrasts are very cool.
Thanks for sharing :-)
Thanks am glad you like them:)
Is that a small moon in picture 5? Take a closer look...
Oh is that a Death Star? I should have brought my zoom lens so I could get a better look:)
Go get your zoom lens. I'll wave to you.
Will do:)
the colors give the photos a nice look.
Thanks:)
It is definitely a different look at the world around us.
Thanks yes for sure. This is just a tiny glimpse into the huge electromagnetic spectrum which is almost all invisible to us. Visible light is a infinitesimally small part of it!
Nice - I love infrared photography.
Thank you:)
Great job ! Really amazing photos
Thanks glad you like them:)
These look awesome!
Thank you. Hopefully they will get better with more experience. I was having a bit of trouble figuring out the exposure the scene as it appears to the eye is completely different in IR in terms of how bright it is. With regular photography you tend to develop an estimate for the settings you need by eye but obviously you can't do that with IR.
Yea, I'm sure there's a learning curve involved. But they look amazing already, and they're only going to get better with more experience. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress! :o)
Thanks. Yes will be fun!