Pastoral

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted March 30, 2012288 views6 comments

Infrared image of a pond at Middleton Place gardens in Summerville SC. Converted Nikon P7100 with a 590nm SuperColor filter from LifePixel. Individual colors brought back with hue/saturation layers in photoshop CS5. Just starting out with Infrared and having a lot of fun with it.

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Comment posted by David W. Kelly on March 31, 2012 at 8:42 AM

Very nice Kate. I like it.

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Comment posted by Marc Ward on March 31, 2012 at 5:49 PM

Kate, a magical scene... I would like to see what the original image looked like before the greens, blues, and browns were brought back into the image.

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Comment posted by Max Waugh on March 31, 2012 at 8:39 PM

Kate, this is great. Looks like winter's melting away before our eyes.

Max

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Comment posted by Kate Silvia on April 3, 2012 at 9:35 PM

Thanks for the comments folks!
Marc, I would show the original...but I don't think it you'd like it. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Infrared, but the original RAW file comes out of the camera RED...all of it....Red. It's actually quite heinous! :) I bring it into Capture One Pro to adjust the white balance to try and bring it more toward the blue spectrum and then into Photoshop where I swap the Blue and Red color channels in the Channel mixer. At that point, the foliage is all red and the sky is cyan. After all that, then I change small portions of the image with several Hue/Saturation layers stacked on top of each other. I desaturate a layer to get the white foliage as well. Sounds painful but it's really not that bad once you get the hang of it. I like the "snow in Charleston" effect it has! Have a great weekend!

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Comment posted by Miro Susta on April 7, 2012 at 6:48 AM

Gorgeous image. Excellent work Kate.

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Comment posted by Philip Schwarz on April 8, 2012 at 9:04 AM

Interesting shot. I looks like something that would be fun to try.

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