Don't waste your time and see it Large On Black
Dear Friends,
work has kept me really busy in these last weeks, now things should get better...
I have finally made my decision in getting even more in the infrared world: I'm converting a 5d Mark II (not my main body, another one) to infrared (with an 87C filter) and then I will start experimenting.
I have made some deep researches on this topic, I should write an article on that soon!
If all goes wll I will be getting it in a month, and start shooting in my upcoming two weeks trip in Croatia (from 3rd August on).
Meanwhile, I got my Eizo S2243 Display, lost almost all saturday with hardware calibration (with Argyll) and now have started re-processing a few old shots to build my portfolio for an upcoming even (I will tell more about that
later). I have realized that all my previous monitors (I used other applications to do the hardware calibrations) had way too high brightness, now at 120 cd/m2 things looks much better.
This image comes from a fortunate session in a super-windy saturday afternoon a few weeks ago.
I like this image a lot, the motion in the sky was amazing.
Details
- CANON 5d Mark II, TS-E 24 @, f/5.6, 83 s, ISO 400
- Live view, Remote Shutter
- Hoya R72 (720 nm Infrared Filter)
- Tripod
The shot
Shot about 50 km from where I live.
The Processing
Photoshop:
- Converted to black and white using NIK Silver Efex Pro 2 plugin;
- Added many Soft Light layers to dodge/burn selectively;
- Applied an Unsharp Mask to slightly improve contrast;
- Cropped 2:1;
- Resized for the Web (1200px);
- Applied a Noise Ninja layer to smoothen the sky;
- Added a level layer to improve contrast;
- Smart Sharpen + More accurate (On luminosity 'blending mode' with the sky masked off);
- Framing and Signature.
Take a look at it,
LARGE on Black :
Infrared Étude - 2011 - #3, On Black
@ You all
Comments, faves and critiques are always welcomed!
I wish you a splendid week ahead, my dear Friends; I will try to get back to your streams as soon as I can!