Infrared Bali

[Don Ellis]

This is an 8-picture gallery that should get larger as I either cull through the photos I've already taken or, better, return to Bali to take more.

I've already posted four of the photos on Share Photos and this rice barn is a fifth, so maybe you don't even need to visit



Infrared Bali Gallery

The pictures have a different tint to them than other infrared photos that I've taken and processed the same way.

Cheers,

Don

[jimmyjazz]

how do you make infared phtos?

[gandini]

Don, Don, Don--you blow me away! I think I'm pale green with envy looking at your wonderful Bali gallery. So technically "perfect" so brilliantly composed. I know you have a low "hit" rate (and you report it!), but it just proves that you have to expose a lot of pixels to get the really good ones. Don't you just love downloading the card and opening the images in BB just to see what you recorded? Even with a pretty good memory, the thrill of looking over the "negatives" is as real and wonderful with digital as it was with film--just easier because of the whole reversal thing.

Thanks for giving us these wonderful eye candies.

cheers,

[Don Ellis]

Philip, if I didn't do it for myself, I'd do it for you... whatever "it" is. Maybe it is spending a little extra time with framing, or taking more than one picture because the moment won't be returning, or throwing away the many pictures that are "close" along with those that are nowhere near -- not that I don't indulge myself occasionally and post something marginal. One of these days, I'll have to revisit my galleries and do some weeding.

You're right about the negatives -- although running a screen resolution of 1600x1200, the 640s I see in BreezeBrowser are a little small for any real evaluation. Still, I've found that you learn things about a photo simply by viewing it in different sizes. I can take a 1600 that is looking good, reduce it to 1024, and something will immediately stand out that needs correcting.

One thing I've noticed that's even more true with infrared than color is that it's a surprise at every stage of the workflow. The conversion -- especially setting a custom white balance -- offers the first glimpse of possibilities. The auto-leveling or auto-contrasting (even if you don't keep it and decide to adjust manually) is the next major surprise and the first real indication for me that a picture might be good. And the final step of sharpening is sometimes what it takes before I really know that I'll keep it.

Thanks to you I've gone through the infrareds I haven't yet converted and I've found a few more that are worth posting. They'll be up in the next few days.

Thanks, as always, for your comments.

Cheers,

Don

[gandini]

I, too, love the "process" of revelation that comes with IR. So many possibilities because you start with an "unreal" image, why not change the color, or the balance? That pale green foliage color is pretty intoxicating.

I was looking at the hut photo again. Perhaps a selective lightening of the dog in the shade would produce an interesting variation? Just to bring it out of the shadow a little...

cheers,

[Don Ellis]