Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest IR

The view west toward the Sierra Nevada Mountains from the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains. Shot with my IR converted 10D and 17-40 f/4L.

It's a nice picture. I've always liked the way IR cuts thru haze. But personally, I've never been a big fan of the channel-swap look. I think this pic would be nice if run thru something like NIK Silver Efex and a great BW were made of it.

Wonderfully done Lonnie,

CannedHeat wrote in post #8221938
It's a nice picture. I've always liked the way IR cuts thru haze. But personally, I've never been a big fan of the channel-swap look. I think this pic would be nice if run thru something like NIK Silver Efex and a great BW were made of it.

I might try it as a BW (I don't have NIK Silver Efex, though), but honestly I very rarely care for BW shots. I've been shooting infrareds for years but wasn't a huge fan of it until I discovered the channel swap technique. I just have to have some color in there somewhere to make me happy.

Kevin wrote in post #8224326
Wonderfully done Lonnie,

Thanks, Kevin.

Wow, that is a very cool effect.

Lonnie, I have just run this through nik silver efex, and the result is fabulous, but then so is your original.

neil_r wrote in post #8226626
Lonnie, I have just run this through nik silver efex, and the result is fabulous, but then so is your original.

Pretend my "IMAGE EDITING OK" lamp is lit for a second and show me what you got.

I downloaded the trial version of the software, but I have no idea what I'm doing with it. Like I said, I'm not (usually) a fan of B/W, so I don't know what all of the options and sliders are supposed to do for me.

Not that it really matters, though. There's no way I could ever justify spending $200 on a plugin.

thomascanty wrote in post #8227708
Pretend my "IMAGE EDITING OK" lamp is lit for a second and show me what you got.

Here you go

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

neil_r wrote in post #8232152
Here you go

Thanks. But, as I expected, it does nothing for me. Without the splash of blue in the sky it looks too unremarkable to my eyes.

I like this one a lot (the original, blue sky)! Very nice job. In my own work, I process IR for both color and b/w (depending on the image itself), but agree that the b/w version of this loses a lot of the "surreal" that the blue sky version has so much of.

Wow!

I like it with the touches of color. Great work, amazing shot.

Cyclop wrote in post #8266154
Wow!

joeyCes wrote in post #8269317
I like it with the touches of color. Great work, amazing shot.

Thanks.

thomascanty wrote in post #8234322
Thanks. But, as I expected, it does nothing for me. Without the splash of blue in the sky it looks too unremarkable to my eyes.

My reaction is the exact opposite. The color makes it look fake in my eyes, the black and white is spectacular. Different strokes for different folks.

jgrussell wrote in post #8269514
My reaction is the exact opposite. The color makes it look fake in my eyes, the black and white is spectacular. Different strokes for different folks.

If we all agreed on everything this would be one very boring planet to live on, huh?