IR with the s9500

[Mohain]

Fed up with waiting for CMT's IR samples from his s9500 I went and ordered a Hoya r72 filter and gave it a go. Well, it works! Seems to get a big hotspot in most of the images, I need some more experimentation to see if I can get rid of/lessen it (I've only been out this morning to try it out). Anyway, here's a sample to prove it can be done, despite reading to the contrary on this board. I'm not looking for critique necessarily, although if the fancy takes you please feel free ... it's more a post to show that IR is possible on the s9500.

Oh and no judges please. I like to keep my options open

More to follow if the fancy takes me or if anyone is interested.

Cheers,

Mohain

 

[Mohain]

looking good. Supprised a fuji can do it to be honest. What were the techie read outs ?

Cheers F11 You mean the Exif? Sorry, forgot to 'save as' instead of 'save for web' (I'm so lazy ).

100 ASA, 30 secs, F9.

Colin, googled for Hoya r72 58mm. Got it for £34 delivered I think. It can probably be got for less?? Technique is as has been described here a few times; compose and focus without filter, swtich to maual filter, adjust focus slightly, put on filter, shoot. It has been suggested to set white balance with filter on to what you want as white (grass for instance) but I've found that you can set this OK in ACR. Any reason why I should be doing manual white balance instead of setting it after on the PC? Anyway, then I used a downloaded action set called Brads IR Action which swaps blue and red channels amongst other things. As I said all my images have had a big hot spot which needs dealing with, which is a right pain TBH.

Here's another, not as good but Exif attached this time ...

Cheers,

Mohain

 

[Mohain]

Seeing as someone else has bumped this thread I thought I'd just post this

I probably should have entered it in the comp. Oh well, too late now

Cheers,

Mohain