I visited planet earth yesterday!

Bobo Hodls wrote:

Scotty wrote:

These are really stunning! I see a lot of IR-type images, and not many get my attention, but these certainly did. I don't know if "IR" is quite what you did here, but it worked well, IMO.

Thanks, v.much, Scotty.

With most natural light work, I never feel the exposure is 100% satisfactory as to the overall balance of the exposure (if nothing else). So even when shooting JPG with a custom setup that’s mostly good, I still manage to want to work an image over. I falter from time to time, but always return to just RAW. Control freak? Me?

Anyways, 720nm IR gives more color to manipulate in a mono conversion (which I had in the past), but I went for the stronger 850nm infrared to see what it was like. A good ETTR exposure OOC is very disappointing, however. The whites appear all washed out, the rest is dull and somewhat hazy. But add some Dehaze (in LR terms) and it starts to take shape.

To keep this [cough] short, then a lot of general a localized adjustments are made to bring out as much detail as possible, separate the whites range, and polish it up. Love Fuji color, but I’ve always had an affinity for monochrome. IR gives a different interest (for me) on shooting foliage in a bright high sun. And, it provides something of what I previously used to get from shooting in the shadows and/or night in the city.

There’s various types of, and ways to convey infrared otherwise. I guess I blathered on out of appreciation for your interest. Oh. . . here’s a few out of camera RAW examples for reference (if THAT interested [g]):

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. With only LR Dehaze added to exposure. IR will do this lens flare thing significantly if sunlight even glances the front element (generally speaking).

Bobo,

Thanks so much for the details, and further description of your process and learnings.  Apologies for the delayed response, but I truly am interested in your experience with IR in the digital world.

I too am something of a monochrome fan, having grown up with b&w sheet films, and 35mm films of may sorts.  This included doing news photography for a little while, and commercial as well as art photography.  It also included many hours in darkrooms.  The last IR photos I did however were decades ago, using Kodak film that required a lot of care and baby-sitting as I recall.  I haven't done any of it with digital cameras, so you have now given me something to think about.