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Comments welcome, let me know if you are interested in the Digital

Workflow...

My IR Digital workflow is as follows:1. I use a Hoya r72 filter on my Canon 50mm, many Canon Lenses have a IR coating on the edges of the lenses that create a flare in the middle of the picture, the 50mm 1.8 II does not, so I am sort of stuck at that focal length for now, although I hope by the end of the Week to have a Tamron 28-75 2.8, I have bought it just waiting for it to arrive.

2. Because of the long exposures needed because of the Digital Rebel(DR) built in IR shielding on the sensor the less wind the better.
3. Ok after you get the picture it is going to be reddish. So here is what you do.a. I use Auto color which creates sort of a sepia looking shot,
b. Now open the channel mixer in Photoshop. On the red channel, flip the red and blue values, so set Red to 0% and Blue to +100%
c. Now go to the Blue channel and flip the Red and Blue channels, setting Red to +100% and Blue to 0%
d. Then I do what ever else needs to be done, curves or whatever, but usually it is just resize it for the web and apply Unsharp Mask. For a 640x427 at 72dpi I use 65%, 1.2 and 0 settings for USM.