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Your video have just come up on my feed for the first time I have been enjoyed shooting IR for a few years I have two converted bodies one with a 665nm filter and the other is a full spectrum. I Think you are right lens choice is key I find longer focal length work better. Looking forward to more videos.
Hi Alan, thanks for watching and commenting. The more I photograph in IR, I'm drawn to the Nikon 50mm Z lens. I find that wider angle lenses have hot spots until maybe at F8. That particular lens works really well. I'm working on a video using ND filters to see if and how it effects IR. It should be posted this week.
Great video! Nice photographs. I've been shooting been shooting b&w IR film for a couple of years now and have struggled a bit with many of same issues, I helps to have someone verbalize them for me. Love the moon shot, gotta try that when I get the opportunity.
Thanks for the comment and watching Philip. I'm glad you got something out of it. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth continuing to make them, so when I get comments, it offers me a jolt to want to do another.
Hi Bob, thanks for watching. If you're speaking of the ones from the camera and not using the filter, then I put them in Adobe Camera Raw. I did however create a profile for the specific camera. I then manually set the white balance using something in the image that I think has white or as close to white as possible, like a cloud or maybe a white heron. I go from there. I also usually switch the red and blue channels with the color mixer however, I don't do that all the time. It really depends on if I want to draw out the blues and pinks or make it into a black and white. I hope that helps.
I've been trying to find an example of full color infrared pictures of people with various skin tones,such as someone with extremely fair skin vs someone with as dark as possible skin tone to see how the light interacts differently than regular light(if at all) Have you done anything like that before? Mabye it wouldn't matter unless it was filtered to specifically s For ultraviolet light but I have yet to search for cameras modified in that way.
Hi, and thanks for watching. No, I haven't tried any skin tones since I don't have a full spectrum camera. It might work with the one I have if I convert them to a strong black and white if the person had a pale skin. I will say however, I have tried it on white birds (herons mostly) and it comes off as grey and pale. Keep in mind, I'm using sunlight so strobes or other types of light might offer a different effect. In the little that I have read about skin tones, they can be difficult with IR. It would be interesting though with someone with light to pale skin and try to get a high intensity black and white and turn that skin almost pure white against a rich black. Search out Ruth Bernhard for her nudes. She didn't do IR that I know of, but she did try white skin tones against black skin tones in her nudes. It might give you some ideas for using IR.
