luminosity blend

Two images, IR and color, of the summer residence of the Queen of

Denmark blending together using blending mode "luminosity". Here are

the links to the

target="blank">color

and the

HREF="http://www.pbase.com/image/17232420"

target="blank">infrared

versions.

A superb blending of the two pictures. The effect gives you a beautiful color palette and a dreamlike effect that doesn't immediately scream photoshop like so many other pictures. Nice job. Thanks for showing how you created it too.

 

Andrew

Excellent. beautiful and oriinal

I love the framing of the roof and tree tops. In fact, I don't think you need the bottom half of the pic at all.

 

Lovely!!!!

What an amazing effect, bravo!! It does indeed have a very surreal quality about it.. reminds me almost of that film with Robin Williams called something "dreams"... ? Very cool :-)

never seen such combination of infrared and color. but not only this effect is good but the whole composition with the sitting person left!

Andrew's said what I wanted to say. Margaret is talking about "What dreams may come".

Since I do a fair amount of IR I might try doing something along these lines. Thanks for sharing the technique.

Great. I really like the effect of merging color and infrared. Good job.

Excellent work. I like the framing and very creative use of multiple mediums. Well done.

Wow, this is really original, not for the subject and/or composition itself (good enough by itself but more kind of "classic"), but for the technique you used! That's quite new! A '7' for that.

I wonder hoy you did to have almost the same image with same shadows and so on (I took a look to the linked images). Did you have two cameras at the same time?

As for the aesthetical result itself, I think the foreground is a tad too bright and needs a little more contrast. But that's very easy to correct. '5' for aesthetics. :-)

Thanks for your comments, glad you like it.

To answer your question : I took two images, with the same camera, in quick succession, one with filters and one without, camera on a tripod.

The match was not pixel perfect and I had to move the second layer (the IR layer) a bit around to try to match. Next time I would not refocus in between the images, since this causes a slight shift.

I took two images, with the same camera

That's something that with traditional film camera would make needing to carry an IR filter...

Thanks for your answer!

One word : Excellent. Bravo!

Great composition, superb lighting, wonderful mix of colour and infrared. 7/7.