A few New IR shots

JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Hi All,

I took a bunch of IR shots at a local park yesterday. We had a day with lots of puffy clouds, so it was great for IR pictures. I've only processed a few so far, but I wanted to share them. Here are a few of my favs:

These were all taken with the F707 using just a Hoya R72 (it wasn't too bright out) in Nightshot mode.

I also used Contrast Masking on some of them, which I've never done with my IR shots before. Let me know what you all think.

Hope you like them.

James
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JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Whoops. Forgot to mention that the rest are here:

http://www.pbase.com/jamesl/cloudy_ir_park

James

JamesL said:
Hi All,

I took a bunch of IR shots at a local park yesterday. We had a day
with lots of puffy clouds, so it was great for IR pictures. I've
only processed a few so far, but I wanted to share them. Here are
a few of my favs:

These were all taken with the F707 using just a Hoya R72 (it wasn't
too bright out) in Nightshot mode.

I also used Contrast Masking on some of them, which I've never done
with my IR shots before. Let me know what you all think.

Hope you like them.

James
--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

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Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

Harry Behret · Sep 20, 2002

James,

Real nice shots. I'm a sucker for reflections in water. The contrast mask seems to have worked well and given the shots some drama. I get similar results using a plugin called "Mr. Contrast" from flamingpear.

harry

http://www.pbase.com/hpb

Steve Cavigliano · Sep 20, 2002

James,

Like Harry, I just love those reflections. These shots are very very good. My only criticism would be that there is so much to look at, they are hard to focus on. With so many clouds and trees above, and again reflected upside down in the water, it's pretty busy. I also agree about the contrast masking. It looks great

Steve

Harry Behret said:
James,

Real nice shots. I'm a sucker for reflections in water. The
contrast mask seems to have worked well and given the shots some
drama. I get similar results using a plugin called "Mr. Contrast"
from flamingpear.

harry

http://www.pbase.com/hpb

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Max Power · Sep 20, 2002

they look great James. is the 'Contrast Masking' a feature in psp or ps?

JamesL said:
Hi All,

I took a bunch of IR shots at a local park yesterday. We had a day
with lots of puffy clouds, so it was great for IR pictures. I've
only processed a few so far, but I wanted to share them. Here are
a few of my favs:

These were all taken with the F707 using just a Hoya R72 (it wasn't
too bright out) in Nightshot mode.

I also used Contrast Masking on some of them, which I've never done
with my IR shots before. Let me know what you all think.

Hope you like them.

James
--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

santosh · Sep 20, 2002

Amazing James..I am planning to get IR filters ...you & the IR Pros here are my encouragement...
Sri

Evil4blue · Sep 20, 2002

James,

These look great, where'd you take them? Your in the Dallas area right? You said it was too bright for Night shot, so I'm assuming you took this in Manual? Also, I've only used contrast masking to lighten a picture, bring out detail in the shadows. How did you implement caontrast masking?

I'm just full of questions, keep up the good work.
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Evil4blue
http://www.pbase.com/evil4blue

JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Hi Max,

Glad you liked the shots. There is a great article on Contrast Masking here:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/contrast_masking.shtml

It can explain it better then I ever could. It's a good thing to try on your pics.

Thanks,

James

Max Power said:
JamesL said:

Hi All,

I took a bunch of IR shots at a local park yesterday. We had a day
with lots of puffy clouds, so it was great for IR pictures. I've
only processed a few so far, but I wanted to share them. Here are
a few of my favs:

These were all taken with the F707 using just a Hoya R72 (it wasn't
too bright out) in Nightshot mode.

I also used Contrast Masking on some of them, which I've never done
with my IR shots before. Let me know what you all think.

Hope you like them.

James
--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

Click to expand...

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JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Hi Harry,

Thanks! Glad you liked them. I've never heard of Mr Contrast. Where did you get that from? Does it do contrast masking for you?

Thanks,

James

Harry Behret said:
James,

Real nice shots. I'm a sucker for reflections in water. The
contrast mask seems to have worked well and given the shots some
drama. I get similar results using a plugin called "Mr. Contrast"
from flamingpear.

harry

http://www.pbase.com/hpb

--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Hi Steve,

Yes, I think the Contrast Masking is actually to fault with that. It REALLY defined the contrast between the light and dark areas.

I think what I need to try is lowering the Opacity of the mask layer so it's not so intense.

Thanks for the feedback!

James

Steve Cavigliano said:
Steve

Harry Behret said:

James,

Real nice shots. I'm a sucker for reflections in water. The
contrast mask seems to have worked well and given the shots some
drama. I get similar results using a plugin called "Mr. Contrast"
from flamingpear.

harry

http://www.pbase.com/hpb

Click to expand...

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JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Hi Sri,

I definately don't consider myself a pro. Just learning like everyone else.

Glad you liked the shots. Getting an IR filter was one of my best investments so far, IMO.

Good luck!

James

Sri Iyer said:
Amazing James..I am planning to get IR filters ...you & the IR Pros
here are my encouragement...
Sri

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JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Hi,

Yes, I am in the Dallas area. I live in Garland, but work in Richardson. The park where I shot these is located just East of Belt Line and Coit. It's not a very big park, but I like to shoot there.

I actually took all of these in Nightshot/Auto. Normally I have to use several stacked ND filters to darken the image, but it wasn't too bright yesterday so I could just use my Hoya R72 filter.

In the pics where I used a contrast mask, I copied the pic and pasted it as a new layer, converted the layer to B&W, Inverted the B&W layer, applied a Gaussian Blur at 10 strength, set Opacity to Overlay and 100%, then finally flattened. On some pics, it didn't really work. On others, I liked the effect.

Glad you liked the pics!

James

Evil4blue said:
James,
These look great, where'd you take them? Your in the Dallas area
right? You said it was too bright for Night shot, so I'm assuming
you took this in Manual? Also, I've only used contrast masking to
lighten a picture, bring out detail in the shadows. How did you
implement caontrast masking?

I'm just full of questions, keep up the good work.
--
Evil4blue
http://www.pbase.com/evil4blue

--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

Harry Behret · Sep 20, 2002

James,

The link is http://www.flamingpear.com . The plug-in costs $20 and you can download a full 30 day trial version for free.

Harry

Shutter. · Sep 20, 2002

James, these are very nice! I especially like the first one. Contrast masking really seems to make a real impact on IR photographs.

Enjoy your weekend.

Jim

JamesL said:
Hi All,

I took a bunch of IR shots at a local park yesterday. We had a day
with lots of puffy clouds, so it was great for IR pictures. I've
only processed a few so far, but I wanted to share them. Here are
a few of my favs:

These were all taken with the F707 using just a Hoya R72 (it wasn't
too bright out) in Nightshot mode.

I also used Contrast Masking on some of them, which I've never done
with my IR shots before. Let me know what you all think.

Hope you like them.

James
--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

--
Jim Fuglestad
Why simply live and let live? Live and help live.
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JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the feedback! I now want to go back to some of my old IR shots and try Contrast Masking on them also.

You have a good weekend also.

Jame

Shutter said:
Enjoy your weekend.

Jim

JamesL said:

Hi All,

I took a bunch of IR shots at a local park yesterday. We had a day
with lots of puffy clouds, so it was great for IR pictures. I've
only processed a few so far, but I wanted to share them. Here are
a few of my favs:

These were all taken with the F707 using just a Hoya R72 (it wasn't
too bright out) in Nightshot mode.

I also used Contrast Masking on some of them, which I've never done
with my IR shots before. Let me know what you all think.

Hope you like them.

James
--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

Click to expand...

--
Jim Fuglestad
Why simply live and let live? Live and help live.
http://www.pbase.com/jfuglestad/galleries

--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

Jaysam Thanki · Sep 20, 2002

Beauties...

Wish Calif. had a little less haze so i can take pix like this.. very nicely done.

They almost look like beautifully painted pictures, bu they arent. very cool

JohnK · Sep 20, 2002

JamesL said:
Hi All,

I took a bunch of IR shots at a local park yesterday.

Nice shots and well edited. Here's one I took in a park, plenty of contrast masking...

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JohnK

JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Hi Jaysam,

Thanks! I hear you on the haze. For the last two weeks it has been nasty around here. We finally had some good storms come through and clean everything up, so I had to get out and shoot while the shooting was good.

James

Jaysam Thanki said:
Beauties...
Wish Calif. had a little less haze so i can take pix like this..
very nicely done.

They almost look like beautifully painted pictures, bu they
arent. very cool

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Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

JamesL · Sep 20, 2002

Hey John,

Nice shot! I am starting to really like what contrast masking can do. It only works on some shots, though. When it does work, it works well.

James

JohnK said:
JamesL said:

Hi All,

I took a bunch of IR shots at a local park yesterday.

Click to expand...

Nice shots and well edited. Here's one I took in a park, plenty of
contrast masking...

--
JohnK

--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

razvan · Sep 20, 2002

Wow..you did it. Those are the best IR shots I have ever seen. I like the second pic very much....but all of them are great.You mentioned you have used only the Hoya R72; really?....if the answer is yes, I have to save some money to buy one ....this year...lol.

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