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Post by bfhammer on Aug 1, 2021 3:21:25 GMT
Believe it or not, the D600 IR is my 4th infrared converted camera. The first was an experiment to see if I wanted to pursue the project more where I took an unused point-n-shoot camera and replaced the sensor filter with a piece of clear glass and a bit of exposed film negative to filter the visible light. It actually worked as an experiment for free. Very low-res photos.
Then I had a professional conversion done to my Coolpix 995 pivot-lens camera from 2001. No complaints about the conversion, just the camera itself. Slow to deploy, slow to take a photo, low 3.4 megapixel sensor, smallish images, batteries aging. But that camera still works to this day. Then I converted a D80 SLR last year that I had beaten half to death. It went the other half and died. Now I buy a D600 SLR already converted. A major step-up in gear.
On arrival after some FedEx delays, this is one of the first photos taken from my front lawn.
Realized quickly KEH Camera sales had reset the camera to factory settings, so I pointed the camera to the grass and took a sample measurement for White Balance preset. Then I took another shot.
Weather went bad, but 2 days later during a lunch break at the Jenni & Kyle Preserve in Madison, WI. A disabled-accessible park.
I am using my 50mm f/1.8 lens so I started pushing the depth of field for effect. Also desaturated the images to B/W in software since they were very monochromatic anyhow. Made me feel freer to crank up contrast.
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Post by marsss25 on Aug 1, 2021 3:27:17 GMT
Cool shots, Chris! Glad you got it up and running!
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Post by zeb on Aug 2, 2021 1:21:09 GMT
Nice pictures! The resolution is really good. That fist picture with the red is actually pretty cool! I want to see pictures of warm-blooded creatures!
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Post by bfhammer on Aug 6, 2021 1:52:19 GMT
Well, I cannot take a new picture a day, but I might be able to post a new photo per day for a while. Where I stopped for lunch today.
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Post by zeb on Aug 6, 2021 1:59:29 GMT
Well, I cannot take a new picture a day, but I might be able to post a new photo per day for a while. Where I stopped for lunch today. Now that picture has a lot of depth to me. Almost seems 3-dimensional. Very cool!
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Post by marsss25 on Aug 6, 2021 2:18:36 GMT
Well, I cannot take a new picture a day, but I might be able to post a new photo per day for a while. Where I stopped for lunch That ironwork is an amazing contrast to the organic- so cool!
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Post by bfhammer on Aug 6, 2021 23:59:03 GMT
IR pic for today (but taken yesterday) Had the camera today but skies were ugly most of the day.
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Post by zeb on Aug 7, 2021 1:13:08 GMT
IR pic for today (but taken yesterday) Had the camera today but skies were ugly most of the day. Peaceful.
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Post by bfhammer on Aug 7, 2021 22:24:06 GMT
If not for the railing and the algae blooms a person would want to slip-n-slide down that walk into the river.
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Post by bfhammer on Aug 8, 2021 18:12:08 GMT
This is looking from that bridge in the park towards the old mill at the dam. This is a good one to show off the different ways to process an infrared image. The way I tend to favor is just leave the colors mostly alone. In this case I removed some blue in the leaves by using the White Balance eyedropper tool to set white as the leaves. Has the effect of darkening the copper color of the sky also (and sky reflection in the river). Many people seem to prefer swapping the red and blue color channels. This means setting the red in the red channel to 0%, bring up the blue in the red channel to 100%, and invert that in the blue channel. I think it has to do with expecting to see some blue in the sky. I used to try this a lot and just never saw it as an improvement. BTW, if this is making your brain itch with something familiar, review the opening scene of Star Trek: Into Darkness. Now you know where the color palate of that alien planet came from. Then there is just desaturating the color to B/W. I tend to like this when there is no sky or water to show copper color anyhow.
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Post by zeb on Aug 8, 2021 21:45:05 GMT
This is looking from that bridge in the park towards the old mill at the dam. This is a good one to show off the different ways to process an infrared image. The way I tend to favor is just leave the colors mostly alone. In this case I removed some blue in the leaves by using the White Balance eyedropper tool to set white as the leaves. Has the effect of darkening the copper color of the sky also (and sky reflection in the river). Many people seem to prefer swapping the red and blue color channels. This means setting the red in the red channel to 0%, bring up the blue in the red channel to 100%, and invert that in the blue channel. I think it has to do with expecting to see some blue in the sky. I used to try this a lot and just never saw it as an improvement. BTW, if this is making your brain itch with something familiar, review the opening scene of Star Trek: Into Darkness. Now you know where the color palate of that alien planet came from. Then there is just desaturating the color to B/W. I tend to like this when there is no sky or water to show copper color anyhow. The red/blue swapped one looks like an old hand-tinted photo. The first is my favorite.
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