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I was aiming for an infra red effect on this old truck at Lightning Ridge.
Success, or not?
Success, or not?
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Not sure about infra red I would be thinking it is more noir but I like the effect for this image for something different.
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I’m not sure what infra red is supposed to look like, but I like the look you have achieved.
Are you happy with it ?
Edit- the only thing I could add, is I think it could have done with a little bit more space in front of the truck, not a big problem though.Cheers, Brad.Comment
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It might look more like infrared, but I like the first one better, I think because it has more detail.Cheers, Brad.Comment
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First version for me..Comment
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Definitely #1 John, like Ironwood said a lot better detail. IR doesn't work for all images though but this one seems OK. It works best with lots of green trees and lovely deep blue skies. Has your original image got that vignette? Here's one I played with and added selective colour to the rusty truck.
Last edited by Isac; 25-12-2018, 08:46 AM.I Shoot A Canon
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"I thought getting OLD would take much longer"Comment
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I revisited this image and tried a different workflow.
#1 Using Nic Silver Effex - IR Normal, without adding vignette and other PP after the Nic action.
#2 Using Nic Silver Effex - IR Soft, without adding vignette and other PP after the Nic action.
#3 Following the tutorial in post #4.
No one commented about the truck going uphill, but I straightened it anyway.
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They look more IR to me than the original post..Comment
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All better results John. NIK is a powerful tool. I've played with IR before and I got reasonably good results by removing shadows, dropping highlights and really saturating the image, like this:
To get this:
Then just adding the black and white adjustment layer and playing with the sliders, like this:
To get this:
Another take is adding a bit of colour by reducing the opacity of the B&W layer. This is at 60%:
Just playing and it's all good fun. Merry Christmas!!I Shoot A Canon
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"I thought getting OLD would take much longer"Comment
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I'm not normally a fan of simulated IR, but it has worked well in this case, and certainly gives an IR look.
My beef with simulated IR is it tries to show what infra red a subject reflects based on the visual colours. While there is in fact little or no relationship between the two. It's like trying to predict the blue channel of an image based purely on the red & green info.
When shooting IR I have been able to see through inks, see through sunglasses, identify plastic panels on a car & spot green birds that where hidden in the leaves of a tree. One of it's original uses was by the armed forces - spotting camouflaged vehicles from the air.Compulsive photographic dabbler.Comment
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Not all IR cameras are expensive, one of my SD14 bodies was free (it needed a battery), my compact DSC V1 (5mp with nighshot mode) was £15 but those are getting a bit long in the tooth. My other old DSLR a Pentax K100d cost me £125 10 years ago, and is sensitive enough to IR that I've managed to hand hold it for IR in Britain. it provided my intro to IR just with the aid of a Chinese filter.
I guess it can be a slippery slope so keeping off might be wise. At least I haven't tried buying a lens designed for UV (often many thousands of pounds)
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