Digital Infra Red
While not quite as dreamy an effect as the one you can get using Kodak's High Speed Infra Red Black and While Film, with a bit of digital tinkering you can get 75% of the way there with a regular digital image.
Today was almost summer like with a warm breeze blowing in from Washington State and high wispy stratus clouds portending the approaching rains. It should be a killer sunset this evening - 'Red sky at night - sailors delight.' and all that.
The majority of the trees along the Seawall and into Stanley Park (apart from the evergreens of course) are still in full bloom. Not quite 'ripe' enough to justify blowing $40 on a roll of IR B&W film along with the developing costs. Yet I'm already getting hungry for that afternoon to come and plan to warm up by shooting a few test rolls of old-school Ilford SFX-200 film over the next few months.
It will be sort of refreshing - in a way I'm not quite certain as to why - to shoot film again. I dunno, the ability to shoot a bazillion photos with a digital camera is great and all. And I do spend as much if not more time now on the technical aspects of photography in the world of digital. It's just ... I dunno ... maybe it's nostaligia at work or something but part of me still misses shooting film.
Wierd. Anyway, back to the future ... so to put it. :)
Today's photo was quadruply processed. First, using Nikon's Capture NX software it was reduced from 24 bit color to 8 bit black and white grey scale. Second, using ThumbsPlus, it was slightly sharpened. Then third and fourth, again via ThumbsPlus, a bit of edge detection was done to enhance, well, the edges and then a 'Pop Art' filter was applied to punch the contrast and lower the grey scale to 4 bits.
I really like the result but, sigh, the purest in me, having seen the results of real Infra Red Black and White photography, just .... doesn't ... quite .... dig it.
Today was almost summer like with a warm breeze blowing in from Washington State and high wispy stratus clouds portending the approaching rains. It should be a killer sunset this evening - 'Red sky at night - sailors delight.' and all that.
The majority of the trees along the Seawall and into Stanley Park (apart from the evergreens of course) are still in full bloom. Not quite 'ripe' enough to justify blowing $40 on a roll of IR B&W film along with the developing costs. Yet I'm already getting hungry for that afternoon to come and plan to warm up by shooting a few test rolls of old-school Ilford SFX-200 film over the next few months.
It will be sort of refreshing - in a way I'm not quite certain as to why - to shoot film again. I dunno, the ability to shoot a bazillion photos with a digital camera is great and all. And I do spend as much if not more time now on the technical aspects of photography in the world of digital. It's just ... I dunno ... maybe it's nostaligia at work or something but part of me still misses shooting film.
Wierd. Anyway, back to the future ... so to put it. :)
Today's photo was quadruply processed. First, using Nikon's Capture NX software it was reduced from 24 bit color to 8 bit black and white grey scale. Second, using ThumbsPlus, it was slightly sharpened. Then third and fourth, again via ThumbsPlus, a bit of edge detection was done to enhance, well, the edges and then a 'Pop Art' filter was applied to punch the contrast and lower the grey scale to 4 bits.
I really like the result but, sigh, the purest in me, having seen the results of real Infra Red Black and White photography, just .... doesn't ... quite .... dig it.
I bet though that if I encountered this image without knowing the digital trickery that went into it's creation I'd give it 'two enthusiastic thumbs up!'.
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Nice. One of my favorite photobloggers is Anne Cutler from Marin County, California, who has a Canon D30 (digital) converted for IR. She has created some awsome looking IRs - www.geckonia.com
Thanks for the link Rico. Very very cool stuff. Humbling actually. :)
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