3 from me - IR's

Phate · 8 Sep 2009 at 19:58

Hi all,

I've been wanting to do these shots for sometime now. They are at my sisters horse yard, to get to where her horse is during the day you have to walk through some fields.

So I've been waiting for a nice clear sunny day and here we go, I'm not 100% happy with them, it's been almost a year since I've produced an IR so I've had to learn it all again.

Please C&C

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3.

Thank you

Derek W · 8 Sep 2009 at 20:03

I prefer the 3rd one out of the three. Although I do prefer some of your earlier work (some of the inspiration for me to give IR a try). There doesn't seem to be enough white in there that you see in IR photos. Think someone commented on my IR entry to the 5 second comp saying there was too much blue left over hinting that my initial IR shot for the white balance was underexposed.

Raymond Lin · 8 Sep 2009 at 20:05

They are a bit dark....may be expose a bit longer?

Phate · 8 Sep 2009 at 20:05

Yes I know what you mean...not enough of the snowy look

I will reprocess these hopefully later tonight

Phate · 8 Sep 2009 at 20:08

Raymond Lin said:
They are a bit dark....may be expose a bit longer?

Exposures were for 30 seconds, any longer and I need a remote, problem is (as I discovered) if I up the exposure/brightness any more it makes them look horribly overprocessed

Raymond Lin · 8 Sep 2009 at 20:10

Phate said:
Exposures were for 30 seconds, any longer and I need a remote, problem is (as I discovered) if I up the exposure/brightness any more it makes them look horribly overprocessed

Then you'll need a remote

£4 from the bay for a 3rd party one.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 8 Sep 2009 at 20:44

As I have explained many times. On the Canon range 20D+
You need to be shooting with ISO 200-800 at F8 on a bright bright day to keep your shutter speeds within a minute. Some of my early IR work was 3mins and up

Phate · 8 Sep 2009 at 22:34

I was shooting at f8, just ISO100

Ah well...must mistakes to learn from them

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 8 Sep 2009 at 23:12

Even ISO 200 would be a massive increase.

ISO 100 was rarely used in film, its more a studio speed. The general film for outdoors use you'd buy was ISO 400. Shooting at ISO 400 more commonly will allow for greater depth of field in your photography at hand held speeds.

Of course thats no issue here as you are on a tripod but the timer would be a fantastic buy.

Phate · 8 Sep 2009 at 23:24

Well I've got until its no longer sunny, so a few days. I'll try and go back tomorrow

Helium_Junkie · 9 Sep 2009 at 10:28

Derek W said:
Think someone commented on my IR entry to the 5 second comp saying there was too much blue left over hinting that my initial IR shot for the white balance was underexposed.

That were me, and yes indeed

As a workaround, desaturate, then lighten the blue/cyan channel perhaps. Not sure it will be great, but it wouldn't be blue