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Jørgen Ramskov

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Starting in IR photography
« on: July 09, 2016, 23:39:20 »
Mods: I expect to continue to post new shots in this thread. Not sure if this is the right place to put this thread, feel free to move it.

As mentioned in another thread, I got a D40x converted to IR (590nm) which means a completely new world opens op for me. I haven't had time to shoot anything but what is around in our very small garden so far. I have googled a bit, which produced https://photographylife.com/how-to-process-infrared-photographs and I looked a bit at Lifepixel.com. I have more or less for the first time ever, actually tried to use Photoshop. It required a bit of googling to find the channel mixer :P It's been fun and interesting to spend a few hours today fooling around with wierd colors :)

Any help/hints/suggestions/links/critique are more than welcome!

I'd like to excuse in advance for the lack of quality, but this is where I'm at currently. Here's what I've ended up with today:

#1 A rose. I consider this to be a failure, but that's part of the process.

2016-07-09 IR - blomster og planter i haven 001-Edit by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

#2 Berries. I find this a lot more interesting.

2016-07-09 IR - blomster og planter i haven 010-Edit by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

#3 I had trouble deciding between this and #4.

2016-07-09 IR - blomster og planter i haven 011 by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

#4 Chives. This is my personal favorite so far.

2016-07-09 IR - blomster og planter i haven 011-Edit by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

#5 A cute litte flower, but boring, could easily be my lacking PP skills.

2016-07-09 IR - blomster og planter i haven 024-Edit by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

Going to bring it with me on a trip to Norway next week, hopefully I'll have some time to go shoot :)
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2016, 22:09:35 »
After three weeks vacation I'm back at work. Haven't spent much time on IR photgraphy, but the camera has been with me and I have used it a bit here and there. The "scary" thing for me is the PP given my quite limited qualifications there.

Here's a few shots from Norway from a few weeks ago:
#1

2016-07-13 IR - Norge 002-Edit-Edit-2 by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

#2

2016-07-15 IR - Norge 024-Edit-Edit-2 by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

#3

2016-07-17 IR - Norge 044 by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

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2016-07-18 IR - Norge 069-Edit by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2016, 22:22:18 »
Jørgen, I really like them. The PP looks good and your composition too ;)
You are a natural IR talented photographer  :)
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2016, 01:04:10 »
Jørgen,
  I have been planing in taking the IR route for some time now but haven´t start it yet. Will follow your post here with great interest.

  I find your 1st "failure" rose fantastic.

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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2016, 19:45:23 »
Thanks for you comments friends, you're way too kind ;)

More images to come soon.
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2016, 21:31:53 »
One more from wonderful Norway.


2016-07-18 IR - Norge 056-Edit by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2016, 21:34:16 »
Norway is indeed wonderful.  Not equally sure about the channel-swapping approach, through. There are better ways to process an IR image.

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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2016, 22:10:21 »
I would love to hear your suggestions for post processing!
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2016, 22:54:29 »
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2016, 22:56:55 »
Landscape, southern Fyn, Denmark.

2016-07-27 IR - Sommerhus i Dageløkke 002-Edit by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2016, 12:16:58 »
Love #4 in reply #1.  Pleasing color.  Glad to know you are enjoying the new toy!
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2016, 10:37:26 »
Its nice to see that you are having fun Jørgen. Its always satisfying to use a camera that give you the creative choice on how to present the image :)

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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #13 on: August 14, 2016, 21:33:35 »
lots of nice work, keep them coming!!!
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Re: Starting in IR photography
« Reply #14 on: August 14, 2016, 23:47:40 »
I want one  :)