My first try at IR (sort of)

After seeing some of the shots on here and reading about the technique, I decided to try some near-infrared photography. This was something of a lark, so I decided to go the cheap route and use a Cokin P007 IR filter rather than the Hoya most use. Anyway, it took some experimenting, but I ended up with these two among others. I was shooting at 20 sec. @ f/11 or 30 sec. @ f/16 with ISO set at 100. As you can see, it was a little breezy, but I thought that added to all the interesting textures I was getting. The colors really vary widely according to how I process them; I used this tutorial:
http://nature-photography-central.com …hotography_Tuto​rials.html
as a starting place. C&C welcome.

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The real first try earlier this week was complicated by horrible flare off the filter due to the space between the filter holder and the lens. The pic below is a typical example; it only got worse with adjustments in CS2 to the point that the flare was more noticeable than the image. Those first images were also shot too late in the day, I think. Fortunately one of my weekend projects was repairing the weatherstripping on a door, so I stuck some weatherstripping tape to the filter and carefully placed it in the holder. As you can see, it made a nice, lightproof seal. I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was no vignetting even though I was using my 17-85 EF-S at approx. 30 mm in the above pics.

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