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| Posted: Mon May 21st, 2018 14:11 |
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Robert
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But... Not overwhelmed with the results. More to do with the processing than the subject or the photography. No good blaming the gear. It's some time since I took (and processed) any IR photographs. The images straight from the D200 are much nearer than from my old D1, which took a lot of coaxing to life. However, having spent most of the day processing them I just walked away. Not bad but not what I visualised. D200, 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 VR. Processed in Lightroom and Photoshop with red-green channels swapped by the photoshop built in process, which I have slightly customised to give 3% red to warm the otherwise stark white/grey image. Most of the images are HDR from between three and five exposures depending on the wind/tree movement and the exposure range. Here are a couple of examples:    I would have preferred an ivory off white rather than pink hue.
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| Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2018 03:05 |
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Eric
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I prefer the last shot because the path leads you into the foliage. As you know I am a great believer in the necessity for strong elements in an IR image that are not responsive to IR. The path is a good example. I might have gone further and increased the paths dominance by selectively colouring it. The easiest way with IR is to take an untouched brown copy and place it on a layer over the image. Then erase everything except the path. You get a brown path amounts the white. I would also do a gradient darkening on the sky ....to better frame the top edge.
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| Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2018 03:09 |
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Robert
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Thank you Eric!  Will try that...
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| Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2018 03:15 |
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Eric
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Something like this.. Attachment: 86A0CC8B-45B3-4BBA-8613-4B6086A1057B.jpeg (Downloaded 21 times)
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| Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2018 03:21 |
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Eric
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As we have discussed before, there can be a sameness about IR images that make it harder and harder to motivate oneself to get out and look for the unusual. Witness the fact that image of mine is 8 years old! And I haven't been inspired to do any in 18months or more! However with a holiday on the horizon, you have reminded me I do need to take my Fuji IR with me...and batteries!!! Like a lot of occasions in photography, you don't see images unless you are looking...so maybe I need to look harder!! Thanks for reminding me!
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| Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2018 06:25 |
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Robert
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Something like this? Masking the sky wasn't easy... A lot of hand retouching. Maybe I shouldn't have allowed the blue to fade away completely on the left...
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| Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2018 07:30 |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:Something like this? What do YOU think? Better or not?
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| Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2018 07:41 |
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Eric
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Apart from the path and sky, I personally like to have more contrast in the mid tones. So without blowing the highlights or flattening the shadows Ove just boosted mid tone contrast on this copy by 20%. Attachment: A1DE1426-A6A6-4D1F-9A76-D1930D595928.jpeg (Downloaded 21 times)
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| Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2018 08:09 |
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Robert
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Eric wrote:What do YOU think? Better or not? Better but not there yet. Not 100% happy with the sky or the sky masking of the twiglets to the right. The image lacks impact and 'sparkle'. Yet, I felt it was potentially a nice candidate. A cloudless sky would have been easier.
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| Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2018 08:19 |
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Robert
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Eric wrote:Apart from the path and sky, I personally like to have more contrast in the mid tones. So without blowing the highlights or flattening the shadows I've just boosted mid tone contrast on this copy by 20%. Much better, I had the blacks and whites pretty 'right'. You are correct, the mid tones benefit from more contrast. I have addressed the overall tone of the image but still it lacks the ivory, pale cream tone that I wanted. More work required... It's one thing taking these photographs, the work is in the processing and I haven't used this aspect of Ps for a long time. This was what I loved about Bibble, you could adjust the tones so easily and subtly it was a joy to use, combined with the zone selection like the NIK filter software has it was a doddle to use. In fact I might just try the NIK filters on this... Later, have concrete to mix right now.
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