Kleve Germany IR

Comments are welcome.

Tony,Nice clean photo.Make's me want to be there to see what you saw.That means you did the job.

Good Work.

Beautiful place, powerful image.

Joe thanks for the comment I appreciate.

Yes it was beautiful indeed.

Eduard thanks too for taking the time to drop a comment.

beautiful!

Wow Tony great work. Beautiful detail and tones. A very nice scene. You are obviously skilled in IR. I want to try it one day, but worried about mucking it up. I'd be proud of this shot.

Wonderful

Tony i would appreciate if you find the time to explain your technique because i feel jealous not to try something like that!

Ricky thanks I appreciate.

Phil thanks for your comment I appreciate I think you have to give it a try the results some times are quite impressive,The contrasts you get are stunning too...It's not easy you can shoot many and turn out a few good...Give it a try am sure you will love it.

Black box thanks for your comment,Am sure you will also be impressed and hooked once you give it a try.I don't know what camera you are shooting with....But I owe a Canon 300D,but i kept my Sony lately only for IR.

The Sony's and Minolta's are very IR FRIENDLY...

Am sure there must be some others maybe Olympus..

 

With the Sony I shoot on night mode and sometimes on manual but the only problem with manual is that it shouldn't be any wind whatsoever due to a shutter speed of 10 to 15 seconds you understand If the foliage on the tree is moving then you get blurred foliage wich is not so nice.yes you need a stack of filters to cut the light through....the best filters are Infrared filters which are expensive and very dark for instance the Hoya R72 since i couldn't find it easily I improvised my own filters I use a ND 8 FILTER = a Linear polarizer + a dark red filter I had back to the old days when I was shooting B&W To get that Dark sky....after shooting it in infra there's a procedure that has to be done in photosop it's not a photoshop effect.....Out of the camera the picture is green and it even looks a bit out of focus am referring on Sony's camera's ...but as soon as you start editing it, then you get the green foliage white.....and so on the best time to shoot is on a sunny day till 10.00 in the morning and after 17.00pm. you need enough light for infra ......yes, Now after editing it,you come out with an almost black& white photo of course the difference is that the green foliage is white but the contrast you get from the foliage turning white with the trunk of the tree is amazing....adjusting saturation and Hue you get different moods of colour....since it's shot in RGB.....Then according to your likings you're ready. I hope i was clear enough. There's so much to say but your best bet would be to go on your browser and type infrared photography,and you'll come up with lots of sites dealing with infra for Digital,and conventional photography,And last but not least i wanna thank all the guys down in Dpreview on the Sony forum where i started to get hooked on infrared.I hope i cleared up a few things for you.

regards and best of luck.

splendid i.r effect

well done.

Ilan thanks I apreciate.

Tony i really thank you for the "tips".I will try to find time to experiment with all that and i will be back with the results.Thanks again!

Black box was my pleasure to be able to help in any way.

Regards