Shot with my elderly Olympus E-420. ISO at 100, f22, exposure time of 20 seconds. Note, I also shot this in black and white mode. The greens didn't turn out as 'white' and eerie as I wanted in this shot, but I love the softness of the clouds that were moving through.
Next is basically the same shot at 10 seconds. But edited much differently, I kept working at changing channels and editing until I got white in the foliage.
Well now in this shot I waited for the sun to come out from beneath a cloud and I worked with the colors a bit more and did get the trees behind the house white.
So I decided to follow some instructions I found on developing this shot for a more 'blue' sky and I got this:
Well that certainly is interesting and a bit wild. I abandoned that to go see what my Nikon D3200 outfitted with the 50mm came up with.
Shot with the Nikon with an ISO of 800, f10, and 3 seconds. This didn't turn out too badly and although not perfect with a touch more editing I think the whites would come out if I lost all the color and went strictly black and white [it was shot in black and white mode].
But I got sidetracked and tried some other things instead:
Okay this was really funky looking like some camera gone over to the evil side.
So I messed with the color balance some more and got this:
I liked this for some strange reason, probably because it is so 'out there'.
So I went back to the drawing board and decided to try and do it as a black and white image and perhaps I finally got it.
What I have learned is that IR Photography isn't something you can just 'run' out and shoot. It takes a lot of thought to set up and look for the proper lighting.
Processing is very difficult because of your colors are predominantly red, so there is a lot of post editing to be done.
I shot in RAW, I used both color and black and white modes, tried different exposures and different methods of processing.
Each time a shot is taken with an IR filter, it will be somewhat of an experiment or personal taste as to how the image turns out.
