Couple of IR photos with R-D1

[Epimetheus]

[FONT=&quot]These are taken with 15mm Heliar and an infrared filter taped in front of it. Epson turned out to be quite good in IR and more sensitive to IR than my DSLR. It’s also a lot easier to compose because you don’t have to take the filter off like with SLRs.
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[Didier]

Very interesting. Which IR filter did you use, and how did you meter?
Didier

 

[Epimetheus]

Very interesting. Which IR filter did you use, and how did you meter?
Didier

I used Hoya R72 and didn’t actually meter. I don’t know how to use the meter result with IR or if it’s usable. I used histogram to adjust exposure which came to 1 second exposure time with aperture of F8 and ISO 200.

 

[Vagabond]

Nice work. Yet another interesting avenue to persue.

 

[jl-lb.ms]

Damn fine!

 

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Beautiful pictures. Did you focus anywhere in particular or did you use hyperfocal?

 

[Epimetheus]

Beautiful pictures. Did you focus anywhere in particular or did you use hyperfocal?

I set focus to infinity.

 

[lZr]

Smart use for focusing/metering. I like it.

 

[Geo]

Very cool images!
Geo

 

[Johnmcd]

[FONT=&quot]These are taken with 15mm Heliar and an infrared filter taped in front of it. Epson turned out to be quite good in IR and more sensitive to IR than my DSLR. It’s also a lot easier to compose because you don’t have to take the filter off like with SLRs.
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I shoot quite a lot of IR with my Sony F717 and R72 so I just had to try it 🙂 What made it so easy was the fact that the 58mm R72 that I had for the Sony fitted perfectly just inside the hood for the 40mm Nokton so all that was needed was 2 small pieces of tape to hold it in place.

The picture below taken quickly this morning shows that the RD-1 is quite sensitive to IR. 1/4 sec @ F5.6 iso 200

More to follow, I suspect.

Cheers,

John

 

[edhohoho]

IR Image Processing on R-D1

IR Image Processing on R-D1

Thanks for your posts, I really enjoyed your images! I recently tried my R-D1 with a B+W 093 IR filter but those shots were really dark and required long exposure times. I was not able to get anything other than a dark purple hue in the images. I finally received my R72/092 equivalent and would appreciate your help on the exact steps you took and settings you used to get your final images.

If I remember correctly, I took the images using the color setting (not in-camera black and white) and RAW format. It was a bright, sunny and warm day, so I used ISO 800, auto exposure, and was handholding everything with the 35mm at f1.4 or 2.0. I processed with PhotoRAW and played around with the settings but was unable to get anything that resembled the sharp, ethereal images I seek to emulate. All I got was fuzzy purple and white. Afterwards, I used Photoshop 6 to further process, without any significant improvements.

How are you getting the yellow/brown or blue tones? And how are you getting such sharp images? I read somewhere that when taking IR photos you have to slightly near focus to compensate for the characteristics of IR.

I am really new to RFs but have had a lot of fun with night/available light photograpy. Now I really want to try my hand at IR. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Epimetheus]

Here is a good IR work flow instructions which I used:

http://www.pbase.com/dlarson2/ir_work_flow

 

[Johnmcd]

How are you getting the yellow/brown or blue tones? And how are you getting such sharp images? I read somewhere that when taking IR photos you have to slightly near focus to compensate for the characteristics of IR.

Ed,

When you first take them they will appear with a bright red cast. Shoot raw and open them in Epson Raw. Select the white balance tab and select a 'greypoint' somewhere on the image and you will see a huge change. Experiment for best effect. As Epimetheus says, this can also be done in Photoshop. Use PS to change the channels around - blue to red etc.

Here's another two taken today. These are both hand held - 1/30 F4 at 400 iso.

Hope this helps,

John

 

[edhohoho]

thanks

thanks

Epimetheus and John, thanks for your help! Time to experiment with the new IR filter.

I noticed in the IR workflow link that the author said a quick way to convert images to black and white was to create a hue/sat layer and change master saturation to 100%, and that the reader should use anything but grayscale conversion.

Any other tips on how to convert images to black and white using Photoshop?

I remember some well-meaning RFFers tried to help me with this before, but I was a bit overwhelmed by the numerous steps involved and inputting of values for parameters I didn't understand.

Just wanted some guidance before searching the web or a book for answers.

Thanks again.

 

[triplefinger]

Very nice "how to here" interesting stuff. thanks.

Here is a good IR work flow instructions which I used:

http://www.pbase.com/dlarson2/ir_work_flow