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. I used ISO 200, F8, 2" and sometimes compensated to get blurred effects on the water (like 4" at F10 etc.) Are you saying that even if the image comes out on the monitor it may still be underexposed? Does it have to look a certain way on the monitor BEFORE one does AUTO LEVELS? Mine always look RED or REDDISH --The image is way too dark. This is why it is so grainy - completely
underexposed!
Do not use the metering. Use your camera in M Mode and playaround
until you have an acceptable result on the camera monitor.
Your setting have been:
ISO 800
Fstop 8
Exposure 1/20
Now, if you have a tripod your settings should have been:
ISO 200 (less grain)
Fstop 8
Exposure 1 - 2 seconds
Now I tried my best to save your picture, and this is what I did:
Nikon Capture 4.1:
Manual WB on "gray point" (don'T know if this is the correct
english expression)
Correct Exposure by +2 EV
Photoshop:
Auto Leveling
Channel Shift (as described before)
Color Reduction (0 Saturation) for:
Red Colours & Magenta
Resize and Sharpen
Result:
--I have a feeling my subject needs improvement. This is because I
noticed that in my sample picture below, most of the subject is a
bunch of the same color and therefore no interest in the final IR
picture.
That aside, I have found a few interesting things.
-Even after your WB trick, I notice that if I take the color
temperature all the way down to 2200 K it improves my chances if
the original is not good enough. I assume after my tests, that you
need LOTS OF GREEN GRASS and the sun has to be VERY BRIGHT. My
image here I metered off the grass but the sun was weak and the
grass was very patchy and lots of dirt showed through
-The exposure is somewhat improtant, but not really. I was able to
work out a decent IR image in over exposed and underexposed shots
-Nikon is better than PS in processing raw IR images
-It must be OVERHEAD sunny right? This shot was taken when the sun
was about halfway between set and midday.
-I still don't know how to do the channel swap as you say. I found
an action on the internet that does this, I think, but I'd like to
know how to do it so I can control it myself
I have attached the RAW NEF file as well to see if you can give me
further advice. Thank you sir.
RAW (big file, over 5MB)
http://manny.org/NTF/D70/tuckahoe-park-1.NEF
Thanks for your advice and help.
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Manny
FCAS Member - http://manny.org/FCAS
http://www.pbase.com/gonzalu/
Cheers
Dirk
http://www.nzphoto.net - Panoramic New Zealand
http://www.pbase.com/nzphoto - Nikon D70 Galleries
1.000x = ND 3.0-10
What filter, what camera settings, what light situation?
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) all thanks to your advice. --The picture with the blue sky and the white ground was taken at a
very sunny spot and nearly no shadow.
Those with little colour differences / blue or red cast have been
taken in shadow or with an overcasted sky.
Now if you would like the following picture with blue sky and white
landscape, this would easily be corrected in PS:
You would just desaturate the red and magenta colours and thats it.
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Cheers
Dirk
http://www.nzphoto.net - Panoramic New Zealand
http://www.pbase.com/nzphoto - Nikon D70 Galleries
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I'm not sure what you mean by " jusms to the container," but I can't think of any reason why it would not work the way I described above. This is the first "action" the I've distributed, maybe I did something wrong. I guess you'll have to back to doing the adjustments manually, or maybe even record your own "action."
Yup, will do by hand for now... I hope to get your action working though. Too much work by hand
Nope... nothing... I do have it on my CP995. But maybe is because I use the hood and then put my hand or anything else over the lens to protect from lens flare. The kit lens is a magnet for it because of its construction. Any lens with exposed front elements is bound to have it. Try Color Burning the center of the image with a LARGE SOFT EDGE brush... low opacity... and be gentle. It works a lot of the time to correct these effects.
--they just don't POP....
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me
take a look at my favorite Pixel:
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