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| Photography from South Beach, Miami Beach and Miami, Florida. Includes images taken with Nikon Equipment (D2x, D70 and a D70 modified for infrared photography. Galleries include street photography, urban still life and photojournalistic. |
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THE smart choice for converting digital bodies for Infrared (IR) photography.
I sent my D70 in for a convert last year and it was the smart choice! Vitaly, the owner is one stand-up square deal kind of guy.
For about the price of two good IR filters, you can convert your cam to dedicated IR and leave your tripod at home! Hand hold shots just as if you were shooting the camera before the convert!
It has opened up a whole new world of creativity for me to be able to hand hold IR work - it IS the way to go if you love IR and have an extra body - heck, it's worth it to get a used D70 off of Ebay to get it done.
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 (10/1)
We're invisible this week :o)
Only a scant 7 images in the inbox this week, but with the extensive post work I do on some of these inferred images, it takes a lot longer to work the files to final.
Two things I've "discovered" this week about post processing - photoshop in particular is first (and most important to my working the infrared files) is the extract tool. It works well on some infrared files and not so good on others. One of the big challenges working masks and extractions on infrared files is the lack of contrast in the images, so for the third image in this week's InBox, I had to cut a mask in a more traditional fashion - I still prefer to add a layer and paint the mask for simple lines, as is the case in that image.
The second thing I learned is pretty huge for infrared and even for black and white converts, though lesser for those - the High Pass filter. It can really add drama and/or pull out a real 3d look to masked objects, as well as bring back color to an otherwise dull infrared image. See the Image of the Week below for further explanation.
I'm going to do these updates in smaller batches and made some changes to my workflow to simplify the process, so if you crave exif data, you need to get the Opanda free plugin - it's an awesome tool for those that crave shooting data! If you do, much like me, you should probably seek counseling!
 (9/24)
4 Galleries Updated:
5 images in Invisible Light
1 Image in Living Things
29 Images in PJ (topmost sub-gallery)
4 images in Urban Still Life
My Blog:
I'm now going to attempt blogging again. It's a great diversion to think about what you're doing and why. I'm really familiar with wordpress now, having used it elsewhere, and it's a great GNU blogging tool - gotta love the free stuff!
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I would have preferred choosing the first image in the InBox as the image of the week, because it is hands down my favorite for this small batch of InBox images.
I chose the second image though, because it shows the power of high pass filters to liven up otherwise dull images.
 To the right is the "before" image. This is exactly what the tiff looked like after I I worked it in Capture NX and saved it out as a TIFF. I used the extract tool on a duplicate layer to extract the building from the sky after I switched the red and blue channels and did some other color balance tweaks.
Then I made an extra copy of the extraction and the base image and applied a highpass filter to both with fairly radical numbers that did not create halos on the bottom image, didn't care about the sky, no halos possible there.
On the high pass layers, I used the color burn blending mode for the extracted sky, and for the building I chose the linear light blending mode - both at 100% opacity. I was very surprised and happy with the amount of drama I was able to add to this otherwise fairly dull image.
With results like this, I don't need to say that I'm highly motivated to pack the IRmod D70 just about any time I go out! I'm certainly not calling this a great image by any means, but spending the time to play with different high pass blending modes really opened my eyes on this one.
Some of you might think this "cheating", that's fine, you're entitled to that opinion. Many photographers doing IR and/or UV work employ techniques in post processing to render the image as they want to see it. Let's face it, the above "before" example would have left most with the question "why did he even bother?" :o). If this were something being published somewhere as a factual image, that is an accurate rendering of a particular scene, I would never think of jumping through so many hoops to manipulate it - that would be intellectually dishonest - but I would not have shot such an image in IR either. For me though, IR imagery is subject to any level of artistic license I feel necessary to render an image the way *I* want to see it. |
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