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04/28/2005 02:30:56 PM · #1 |
Hi,
It drives me nuts that the search engine on this sight is "temporarily disabled." (LONG temporary, by the way.) Anyway, I am very excited because I LOVE infrared photographs and my new Hoya (R/72) filter arrived today!! YAYAYAYA. I am standing here staring at it thinking, "I have no idea how to use this dark dark filter." Any good, quick tricks I should know about? Any lighting better than other lighting? Time of day? Any subject better than another? I have seen some amazing pictures on this sight taken in infrared, and a few I have seen show with blue water and blue sky. Does this automatically happen or did they do something to make that happen? I may be asking too much for this thread, but Ilove this sight because people seem to know so much and respond so quickly!! Thanks to all in advance for responding!
PS, if you can suggest a good book on the subject, I would love to know about that too!!
Jen
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04/28/2005 02:36:11 PM · #2 |
I had a favorite infrared site but can't find it right now...this one looks like it may have potential. I would love to do it but my 5050 only does "near infrard" and that is just not the same.
ooops forgot to add the link sorry...
//www.wrotniak.net/photo/infrared/
Message edited by author 2005-04-28 14:36:59.
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04/28/2005 02:57:07 PM · #3 |
Like you, I've just got my hands on a R72 filter. I've only used it a few times so far. I think the most imteresting subjects to photograph is foliage, since most leaves reflect IR. Also, try messing around with custom WB settings. When using my filter on normal/auto WB, there is lots of red in the shot, but get a piece of white paper (in direct sunlight) and do a manual WB and my photos go more blu-ish colour. I've also heard of some using sepia mode, if your camera supports that. Finally, I think theres lots to be done in photoshop etc.
Edit: you might want to check this site out too //dpfwiw.com/ir.htm - a really good overview of IR
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04/28/2005 03:59:06 PM · #4 |
There was a Photoshop workflow posting in the dpreview forum quite a while ago (> 1 year ago). I'll check on it this evening when I get home from work, but for now, what it shows is how to process the raw IR images from your 10D using the channel mixer.
If someone doesn't beat me to it, I'll post whatever I can dig up on it later tonight...
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04/28/2005 04:04:05 PM · #5 |
I found this.
... and there's more technique based articles.
Message edited by author 2005-04-28 16:05:44.
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04/28/2005 04:13:26 PM · #6 |
Here are some great tips for the 10D specifically:
//www.phototakers.com/forum/archive/canon-10d-and-infrared-any-hope-12700.htm
Jen, I am really interested in your results, so could you email me (in addition to posting to the forum) when you have some samples to show?
Dave
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04/28/2005 04:15:34 PM · #7 |
This a great site with lot of info on infrared.
I use an olympus c2020 camera which is so sensitive to ir light it can be used handheld with a hoya r72 filter. I picked it up on ebay for £56.
Another great thing about the camera is when set on auto white balance all you have to in post processing is swap the red and blue channels and you end up with pic like these.
  
  
More here prints available ;)
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04/28/2005 09:08:00 PM · #8 |
Infrared technique
Over a year and a half ago I played with IR a little, and found these techniques to be invaluable. Read the message following that linked here, to see how to use PhotoShop Channel Mixer to post-process your infrared images. |
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04/29/2005 09:45:06 AM · #9 |
You guys rock! Thanks for the info!! dave, I will email you with the results once I get a chance to try it out. Right now, it is dark and rainy... :o)
Jen |
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