The ‘Improved’ Candy Pink IR Photography

[JeanPierre Martel]

Candy Pink IR Photography is created with a wide-spectrum infrared camera and two filters:
• a yellow-green filter (Лomo ж3-2*)
• a cobalt blue filter (B+W KB20).

Candy Pink IR Protography is very predictive. It works under cloudy days, sunny days, in the morning, late in the evening. In a nutshell, anytime.

Candy Pink IR Photography can still be improved when a third filter is added: a blue 80A filter.

In the next few days, I’ll publish a few examples here, in this thread, about it.

But for now, I’d like to show you a little secret of mine; how to make some Scarlet IR Photography. The secret?

Simply by taking an ‘Improved’ Candy Pink IR Photography and boosting the saturation of its red channel during post-processing.

An example?

Watch this:


A statue at 2000 McGill College Avenue, in Montréal

 

[alsadov]

Nice picture!

Could you acheive the same effect using digital filters, say, in Photoshop?

 

[maggiemole]

JeanPierre, is there any difference in the two blue filters you use? If so, please can you describe.the difference? Thanks!

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

Nice picture!

Could you acheive the same effect using digital filters, say, in Photoshop?

Digital filters can do extraordinary things.

Some are even called ‘Infrared’ filters. But according to my experience, none comes close to the real thing.

That being said, I’ve just seen the news about the 'Landcape' filter by VSCO. It looks very interesting. Actually, that specific filter looks like Pink Grapefruit IR Photography. Can it mimics Retro Pink IR, Candy Pink IR or Scarlet IR Photography? I don’t know.

We have to remember that about half the sun rays are infrared ones. That’s why it is so difficult to mimic infrared photography with just the visible spectrum. Both complete themselves and each is unique.

Finally, thanks alsadov for your comment.

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

JeanPierre, is there any difference in the two blue filters you use? If so, please can you describe.the difference? Thanks!

My experiments about the effect of filters on photos taken with wide-spectrum IR cameras is purely empiric; I’m trying things and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Up to now, I’ve tested a little more than 50 filters.

The ones that gave me the results that I like were yellow-green, bleu and dark cyan filters.

At naked eye, blue KB20 and blue 80A are two filters that don’t look very different. Yet, I was surprised at the improvement made when a 80A filter was added to a yellow-green/KB20 duo.

The explanation is probably at the very different effects a KB20 and a 80A filter do on infrared rays:

 

[maggiemole]

JeanPierre, is there any difference in the two blue filters you use? If so, please can you describe.the difference? Thanks!

My experiments about the effect of filters on photos taken with wide-spectrum IR cameras is purely empiric; I’m trying things and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Up to now, I’ve tested a little more than 50 filters.

The ones that gave me the results that I like were yellow-green, bleu and dark cyan filters.

At naked eye, blue KB20 and blue 80A are two filters that don’t look very different. Yet, I was surprised at the improvement made when a 80A filter was added to a yellow-green/KB20 duo.

The explanation is probably at the very different effects a KB20 and a 80A filter do on infrared rays:

Thanks, JeanPierre. The graphs are particularly useful. These are clearly different!

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

After months of confinement or teleworking, what a pleasure to go back anew in the central district of our cities.

And to see it with new eyes, what could be better than looking at it through ‘improved’ Candy Pink IR Photography...

 

[N1c0la]

Really like them. I must try and get out with my full spectrum GX7 and some filters I already have and experiment.

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

Really like them. I must try and get out with my full spectrum GX7 and some filters I already have and experiment.

The keywords are 'experiment' (as you've said) and 'fun'.

In regular digital colour photography, filters are almost completely useless since we can do the same with post-processing.

Trying any filter with your full spectrum GX7 will often be unpredictive since it's easy to guess the effect of that filter on visible light but impossible to guess its effect on infrared rays (as shown with the completely opposite effects of a blue KB20 and a blue 80A filter).

Through experimentation, you can create your own style. Especially since some of your old filters may be almost impossible to find these days.

So good luck, N1c0la : I'll be very happy to learn from your experience.

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

Westmount is a city surrounded by Montréal. On its 4 km² territory are living about 20,000 people, mostly rather wealthy.

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

Covering an area of 97 hectares, Angrignon Park is located in the southwest of the island of Montreal. Public transport users can access it from the metro station of the same name.

Trapezoidal, the park is crossed diagonally by a large elongated lake nearly a kilometre long (above). Near the northwest corner of the park are added three small lakes, two of which are connected by a stream.





Rather flat, the park is crossed by an asphalt street (which bypasses the largest of the lakes) and by numerous pedestrian paths which meander through the areas planted with trees.

There are tables for picnicking everywhere.





A wide pedestrian path follows the north side of the large central lake, while to follow its south side (more interesting), one must take a narrow rustic path, which implies that one must be fitted accordingly.

Technical Details : Wide-Sptectrum Panasonic GX1 infrared camera, Lumix 20mm F/1,7 + Лomo ж3-2* filter + B+W KB20 filter + Hoya 80A filter.

 

[victorav]

Covering an area of 97 hectares, Angrignon Park is located in the southwest of the island of Montreal. Public transport users can access it from the metro station of the same name.

Trapezoidal, the park is crossed diagonally by a large elongated lake nearly a kilometre long (above). Near the northwest corner of the park are added three small lakes, two of which are connected by a stream.





Rather flat, the park is crossed by an asphalt street (which bypasses the largest of the lakes) and by numerous pedestrian paths which meander through the areas planted with trees.

There are tables for picnicking everywhere.





A wide pedestrian path follows the north side of the large central lake, while to follow its south side (more interesting), one must take a narrow rustic path, which implies that one must be fitted accordingly.

Technical Details : Wide-Sptectrum Panasonic GX1 infrared camera, Lumix 20mm F/1,7 + Лomo ж3-2* filter + B+W KB20 filter + Hoya 80A filter.

It photography and is very cool. I messed around with channel swapping in Photoshop, obviously results are not that good in comparison.

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

It photography and is very cool. I messed around with channel swapping in Photoshop, obviously results are not that good in comparison.

I’ve seen nice photos done by other people with channel swapping. But my own experiments have been disappointing.

Since I’ve published my articles in this forum about the New Infrareds, all the affordable μ4/3 IR cameras on eBay have been sold. So I long to see the results obtained by other people.

Since you already own a wide-spectrum infrared camera, the only thing that you need to create ‘Improved’ Candy Pink IR photos are three cheap filters:
- a yellow-green (not simply green) filter,
- a 80A filter to take out infrared rays from minerals (rocks, metal, asphalt, and sidewalks), and
- a KB20 filter to improve the skies.

If you buy these filters, don’t forget to buy them wider than the diameter of your lenses since vignetting is unavoidable when three filters are stacked. So a Step-up ring is needed.

On my blog, some readers just hate these kinds of photos. But most of the people find them very original, impossible to do with cell phone cameras.

Eventually, I’ll get tired of doing that. But in these times of climatic and viral catastrophes, it’s refreshing to see these artificial pastel photos (in the spirit of the optimistic sitcoms from the 1950s like ‘Father knows best’).

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

Ste. Helene Fort


Lévis' Tower


Geodesic Dome


Pool


Calder's Sculpture


Swan Lake

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

Maltese Cross


Le Casino de Montréal (the biggest in Canada)


Iris (1967) by Raoul Hunter

 

[CarlosU]

Candy Pink IR Photography is created with a wide-spectrum infrared camera and two filters:
• a yellow-green filter (Лomo ж3-2*)
• a cobalt blue filter (B+W KB20).

Candy Pink IR Protography is very predictive. It works under cloudy days, sunny days, in the morning, late in the evening. In a nutshell, anytime.

Candy Pink IR Photography can still be improved when a third filter is added: a blue 80A filter.

In the next few days, I’ll publish a few examples here, in this thread, about it.

But for now, I’d like to show you a little secret of mine; how to make some Scarlet IR Photography. The secret?

Simply by taking an ‘Improved’ Candy Pink IR Photography and boosting the saturation of its red channel during post-processing.

An example?

Watch this:


A statue at 2000 McGill College Avenue, in Montréal

Just curious: is it possible to achieve this kind of results solely in postprocessing?

 

[JeanPierre Martel]

Just curious: is it possible to achieve this kind of results solely in postprocessing?

No.

There are many plugins for Photoshop aiming at transforming a regular colour photo into something that looks like an infrared photo. Many are very interesting, but nothing comes close to the real thing.

Otherwise nobody would do IR photos these days.

Thanks for your question.

 

[CarlosU]

Just curious: is it possible to achieve this kind of results solely in postprocessing?

No.

There are many plugins for Photoshop aiming at transforming a regular colour photo into something that looks like an infrared photo. Many are very interesting, but nothing comes close to the real thing.

Otherwise nobody would do IR photos these days.

Thanks for your question.

ok, thanks.