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Original: 7/28/2006 10:52 PM
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Friday, July 28, 2006
 INFRARED IS BEAUTIFUL

I still haven't decided if I'm going to do the how to shoot a wedding for the design DVD yet.  It will take a lot of work and I don't know if I am up to it enough.
Anyway, when I shoot a wedding I love doing establishing scenes in IR.  The images here are at Ann's house, where the wedding was held.  Doing album images in IR creates an amazing background for album pages, or just as fine art BxW images alone.
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Nice stuff... it reminds me of 'The land Of Oz' ... which Ohio probably is
Posted 7/29/2006 5:38 by roblarson2 - reply

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wow those IR shots are amazing! is that an in camera setting, a filter, or film? i don't think there's an in camera setting for my 20D..
Posted 7/29/2006 5:50 by MyStyle - reply

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Gary, am I correct that you can buy an IR filter for Nikon but not Canon cameras??  I have a 20D so I am probably out of luck, unless I find one of those converted cameras.  IR is SOOOO cool, I really love the look of it.
Posted 7/29/2006 6:01 by azellmer Xanga True Member Xanga Premium Member - reply

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You have to have your camera converted by taking out the IR lens in front of the sensor. Brody does it:

http://www.xanga.com/brodydez
Posted 7/29/2006 6:14 by garyfong1 Xanga True Member Xanga Lifetime Member - reply

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There is another way to get the effect. Do any of you use 'Lightroom'? If so download this preset for the develop module http://www.method-photo.co.uk/lightroom/ Or try this, go into photoshop. Open up channel mixer:

Output channel - Black
Source channels:

Red -30
Green +200
Blue -70

Use this as a starting point and it is good for foliage. Thing to remember is to get the whole lot to add up to 100. You then need to add some glow to the foliage. If you have a look at Martin Evening's book 'adobe photoshop for photographers' it goes into a lot more detail. The other option is a bit more radical .............. buy some film! Caution though when you come to develop and this is talking from experience don't use a plastic tank as IR light goes straight through. Also goes through wooden doors and dont use red lights! It needs to be a really dark, dark room! Colour IR even more fun but not much good for an album background.
Posted 7/29/2006 8:16 by stuartallen - reply

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The Brody cams are great, but outta my current budget. Thanks for the link. Future purchase fer sure.

I vote -not that it counts for much- for the wedding design dvd set. Please.

In the mean time, I study those I like and am creating a pre-set storyboard of shots as a script to follow.

Whichever you chose to do, Gary, Thanks for what you have already done. - Matt
Posted 7/29/2006 3:13 PM by mattp9 - reply

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I just had a nikon 990 converted and used it for some shots at this weekends wedding. Very cool. I had to place a Red R2 filter in front of the lense.
Posted 7/30/2006 4:52 PM by gofhotog - reply

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 I tried Stuart Allen's technique above in PS2. I also added 4 points of diffuse glow no grain and 20 points clear amount (in filters) to give it a GLOWING look, it works great as a simple technique. I createed an action to do this as a simple and quick routine.

Posted 7/30/2006 11:48 PM by Allan_Thayer - reply


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