Infrared Étude - 2011 - #1

PLEASE SEE IT LARGE ON BLACK

 

Dear Friends,

 

Life is still busy.

 

Tomorrow I'll be turning 27: this afternoon I have taken a longer lunch break and got out shooting.

 

In the next weeks I'll be dealing mainly with Infrared and T/S shots, spring has come and chlorophyll is slowly reaching its maximum; this helps a lot when shooting IR.

 

After a poor sunrise session last saturday (no clouds), today I had my opportunity of getting some nice moving clouds against an almost solid black sky.

 

 

 

I'm sorry about my abscence, but I don't think I will be spending that much time on Flickr in the next months; Last year Flickr has been really time consuming, I don't really want that to happen again.

 

 

Details

- CANON 5d Mark II, TS-E 24 @, f/5.6, 93 s, ISO 400

- Mirror Lockup, Canon Remote Shutter

- Hoya R72 (720 nm Infrared Filter)

- Tripod

 

The shot

Shot about 2 km from where I live

 

The Processing

 

Photoshop:

 

- Converted to black and white using NIK Silver Efex Pro 2 plugin;

- Added a Soft Light layers to dodge/burn selectively (most of the dodge/burn have been performed in Silver Efex Pro 2);

- Applied an Unsharp Mask to slightly improve contrast;

- Added a level layer to improve contrast;

- Cropped 2:1;

- Resized for the Web (1200px);

- Applied a Noise Ninja layer to smoothen the sky;

- 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 - #1, on Black

 

 

@ You all

Comments, faves and critiques are always welcomed!

 

 

I wish you a splendid weekend, my dear Friends

Done