Infrared (IR) Image gallery

G'day folks. Got my X100T at 720nm back on Friday and visited the downtown park today (noon-ish). Here are my first IR shots! Comments and critique welcome. I am super excited with these... I figured the first few times would be a disaster but seems that the B&W conversions are working.

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Black and White (850nm filter) versus 470nm + KB20 filter.

HaroldC3 wrote in post #19417357
Got word my full spectrum a6500 is on its way back. In the meantime, I took my a6000 out this evening and shot it with an 850nm filter. I've shot this subject before but only went here hoping for a nice sunset and it turned out to be too cloudy. This was really the only shot I got.

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This is a great shot all around!

Just got my full spectrum a6500 back the other day and took a few test shots with my IRChrome filter. I did not get a warm and fuzzy feeling from the results but I was shooting at golden hour. It's definitely going to take some practice.

GlimmerMan wrote in post #19417585
G'day folks. Got my X100T at 720nm back on Friday and visited the downtown park today (noon-ish). Here are my first IR shots! Comments and critique welcome. I am super excited with these... I figured the first few times would be a disaster but seems that the B&W conversions are working.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2nFq​Kyr DSCF2663 by S. Nobody, on Flickr

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well done!

GlimmerMan wrote in post #19417585
G'day folks. Got my X100T at 720nm back on Friday and visited the downtown park today (noon-ish). Here are my first IR shots! Comments and critique welcome. I am super excited with these... I figured the first few times would be a disaster but seems that the B&W conversions are working.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2nFq​Kyr DSCF2663 by S. Nobody, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2nFv​MAb DSCF2580 by S. Nobody, on Flickr

I like them!

edmidlifecrisis wrote in post #19418941
I like them!

Thanks a lot!

joeseph wrote in post #19418899
well done!

Much appreciated!

Pano from the Japanese Garden in the city park.
Question: I seem to have a lot of blown-out whites. Any tips and techniques for holding detail in the whites? Do folks tend to leave them slightly gray? Thanks,

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GlimmerMan wrote in post #19419994
Pano from the Japanese Garden in the city park.
Question: I seem to have a lot of blown-out whites. Any tips and techniques for holding detail in the whites? Do folks tend to leave them slightly gray? Thanks,

IMAGE LINK: https://www.flickr.com​/gp/glimmer_man/3rfXy5​HTT9 (2022-0821)-IR720-X100T-HPark-0092 Pano by S. Nobody, on Flickr

Are you processing from RAW or from .JPGs?

RAW will allow more latitude to tame the blown-looking whites using controls such as Highlights, Whites, contrast, Curves, stretching the histogram, and of course Exposure. While shooting try to keep EV at no more than +1/3 or keep it flat at 0, and then work on the other tones, including whites and increase the white levels to near 255 in post (if desired) if they were too low from an EV of 0.

I shoot IR with a polarizer to achieve darker skies, which also tends to increase the contrast and will push some whites to 255, so I am almost always trying to pull down the blown-out whites in post.

I do leave some grey in leaves and clouds since they shouldn't all be pure white, just like in any other B&W photo.

DavidWatts wrote in post #19420114
Are you processing from RAW or from .JPGs?

RAW will allow more latitude to tame the blown-looking whites using controls such as Highlights, Whites, contrast, Curves, stretching the histogram, and of course Exposure. While shooting try to keep EV at no more than +1/3 or keep it flat at 0, and then work on the other tones, including whites and increase the white levels to near 255 in post (if desired) if they were too low from an EV of 0.

I shoot IR with a polarizer to achieve darker skies, which also tends to increase the contrast and will push some whites to 255, so I am almost always trying to pull down the blown-out whites in post.

I do leave some grey in leaves and clouds since they shouldn't all be pure white, just like in any other B&W photo.

Thank you very much; great instruction.

GlimmerMan wrote in post #19420179
Thank you very much; great instruction.

Making changes to the white balance will also generally have a noticeable effect on whites and grays.

EverydayGetaway wrote in post #19420301
Making changes to the white balance will also generally have a noticeable effect on whites and grays.

Thanks a lot - I hadn't picked up on that.

GlimmerMan wrote in post #19420511
Thanks a lot - I hadn't picked up on that.

No problem! I generally always shoot a custom white balance for whatever subject I'm shooting with IR, it makes conversions a lot easier.

Took a Sunday evening drive... If I get a chance going to visit this cotton field again.
The football stands probably didn't need the extra blur, but I went with it... Cheers,

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Wörschweiler Abbey ruins

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