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Published: 2007-05-21 23:53:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 3858; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 0
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A series of custom colour profiles for infra red photgraphy.A fantastic IR photographer I know called ~adenant gave me some information about colour profiles in infra red photography and a link to some information that I could use to create custom colour tones in my custom white balances. These are the results.
Each row shows the shot before and after a normal channel change, no adjustments have been done to the original image other than the temperature and tint.
I have taken a picture of mine that has used my own custom white balance and then matched it to the temperature and tint given in each custom colour profile for each white balance. I did this by setting each colour profile in camera and taking a shot with it and then using the temperature and tint information and matching it with my own pure IR image.
Each number is given first as the temperature and then as the tint so that they are easily to input into RAW converting software although you will need to have a decent custom white balance in the first place. To do this just take a custom white balance against something that reflects high infra red light, most people use grass but I find a conifer works very well. If using an unmodded camera your filter MUST BE ON!
Some give very subtle differences to a more classic infrared image but dont be put of by the more "in your face" monochromatic tones, these could be very easily used in black and white or duotone (possibly quad tone) IR images so should not be dismissed. Also some tones may be useful for shots that could be kept without the channel change.
I hope this may be of use to some people as I know I will be experimenting with these colour tones to get the exact feel I may want for IR pieces.
Huge thanks to ~adenant . Please take the time to visit his gallery for some very beautiful and unique IR+visble light images, there are many people taking IR stuff these days but I can honestly say this guy is in a league of his own although he may not admit it.
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My camera gives completely different results :s
On autowhitebalance it's all pinkish, but if I adjust it like in the 4th pic, 2100 -89, the picture turns blueish, before shifting the channels. It's like there's some sort of foggyness to the picture too. Whatever I set the whitebalance to, nothing turns white, ever, it's like everything is overlayed with a single colour, and that that colour's the only thing changing. Be it pink, red, yellow or blue, everything turns that colour. Do you know what I could do possibly?
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I use a nikon d80 converted by maxmax
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Thanks, hope you may get some use from it.
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Hey that is REALLY useful, I'll be playing when I get home! Thanks for putting the effort into that
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You will need a good pre-white balance first but I hope you get some use from it.
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Hey, Any chance you could elaborate on that? or point me in the right direction? I'm trying to get a handle on this white balance stuff for IR but I must admit its a little over my head. I think thats my problem at the moment that I dont have a good enough image to begin with (crappy WB on cam?) See [link]
Any help would be massively appreciated.
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no offense, but I like your pictures much better than adenant's 
and I agree with DimentionSeven - every camera and filter produces a different thing to start with..
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Thank you for the kind words. The great thing about any type of art is the way that it can show so many different styles that it can suit so many personal tastes. For me personally I rate Adenants work above mine because of the fact he is using a compact he has modified himself and that I have had conversations with him and his IR theory work is stunning. Lets keep everybody doing different things in art and we will never become bored.
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good thinking
I still kinda think that using a converted compact is easier. I also messed with my g2 myself and it seemed to do a much better job than any ir-dslr I saw on the web before coming across your pics. But it probably all comes down to PS work. I browsed through your gallery and saw that you're pretty good at it.
We all like other people's stuff more than ous own anyway, and that's the way it should be
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Thanks. Im more the person who did the last part of the work. ~adenant informed me of the information so it would be great if you could pop by and give him a shout too.
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The 4th is the most common I'd also like to achieve.
But I wouldn't think that these can be standardised: I guess it depends on the camera and the filter brand too. But it's usefull, since I'm struggling to predict the outcome of an actual try of conversion after the channel swap. Most of the times I don't use complete 100-0 to 0-100 swaps.
And yes, sometimes it's better to keep the colors as they are in the RAW converter. Probably my next submission will be like that. (However I need to reshoot that scene this week, since there's more foliage on it now...
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Its worthy of note that the example image was taken with the view that I didnt want the tree to be the normal pure white that so many people go. Certainly the first four would be a more typical tone for a pleasing final colour tone but I was surprised how similar the channel swapped versions of the first four were. I think some could be useful for black and white conversions as some give high contrast which should be a good base before going to monochrome using the channel mixer.
I would be interested to hear a bit more about your under 100% channel swaps i.e. maybe some examples of settings so I could have a tinker.
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Thanks, thats what the site is about.
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Its all getting a little heavy!
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