[C&C] Steaming hot infrared eye candy

Fenster

How is my composition? Arrangement/crop in all of these is niggling at me.

AnCatDubh

love em. smashing work.

saw #2 the other day on your blog and thought it fantastic.

no issue to my mind with composition, etc... the last would be my least favourite but still a great image. the rest of them are A+

InReality

I like them ,no 3 has an other-worldly feel. no idea about the technical side of it though !

smcclaw

They're fantastic, love them all.

DK32

Super work on these. Like all of them

daycent

They're great. I'd love to know the locations...

veryrandom

These are gorgeous! They look like paintings! (this is a good thing). How did you get the gorgeous black and white effect?

DaireQuinlan

I think the crop is a bit too tight on them. Except for the second one, i'd leave a little space for them to breathe a bit.

PopeBuckfastXVI

All of them are outstanding!

Particularly love that tower thing, where is it??

Cosmo K

Number 3 is just amazing! Where is that tower?

trishw78

I love #3

Did you add a blue tone to shot 2

swingking

Do you have the sensor modified on your camera for infrared photography? All shots are amazing

Nisio

They look great; if I had to nitpick maybe a bit more foreground on number 1?

Fenster

swingking wrote: »

Do you have the sensor modified on your camera for infrared photography? All shots are amazing

I shoot through an R72 filter glass; I do it this way partly because I am poor, and partly because I *want* the 30 second exposures.

daycent wrote:

They're great. I'd love to know the locations...

Locations locations locations:

1. Tyrone House, Kilcolgan, Co. Galway.
2. Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara, Co. Galway.
3. Ballycurrin Lighthouse I'm not sure on the lighthouse's townland, so I'll just say ''Ballycurrin Demense, Co. Mayo." Ballycurrin Demense, Co. Mayo.
4. Ross Errilly Friary, Headford, Co. Galway.

Fenster

It starts in camera with good white balance (pretty much ''Auto'') and a polarizer to get the sky nicely dark.

Processing is simply...I browse black and white presets in Lightroom and drag sliders around until I'm happy. In a lot of cases I'll do a two-layers-plus-gradient job on the sky (#'s 1 and 3) to get it perfectly dark. My own modification of Mike Lao's two 300 (film) presets form the basis of much of my black and white. The presets are like the Swiss Army Knives of Lightroom.

I started a beginner's guide to Infrared on my blog here. Heart me enough and I will get off my butt to finish it. I have a whole start-to-end workflow ready to go up.

Nisio

do circular polarisers work with that filter?

Cosmo K

Fenster wrote: »

Processing is simply...I browse black and white presets in Lightroom and drag sliders around until I'm happy. In a lot of cases I'll do a two-layers-plus-gradient job on the sky (#'s 1 and 3) to get it perfectly dark. My own modification of Mike Lao's two 300 (film) presets form the basis of much of my black and white. The presets are like the Swiss Army Knives of Lightroom.

Have you tried Silver Efex from Niksoftware? Thats what I use for b/w conversions, absolutely love it.

Fenster

I've never actually heard of it before this very moment in time.

sineadw

Cosmo K wrote: »

Have you tried Silver Efex from Niksoftware? Thats what I use for b/w conversions, absolutely love it.

Interesting. Why do you prefer it over LR/PS?

Cosmo K

sineadw wrote: »

Interesting. Why do you prefer it over LR/PS?

I don't really use Photoshop that much, I use CNX2 for most of my processing (simply gives me the best results), I only use Photoshop for really basic things, and as a platform for Nik- Filters. Silver Efex is great, because its so easy to use, and I like the fact, that it can simulate so many old b/w films.

Visuelle

Number 1 is tightly cropped but they are all very good, especially like number 2, great job.

Borderfox

Last three are bang on, first one kinda sticks out like a sore thumb for me.

Borderfox

Silvr efex is superb for converting.