IR lake

The lake in front of my office building.

 

My lust for a D300 has left me incredibly dissatisified with my D70.

 

////A few technical notes////

I've been asked in the past about what gear and techniques I use. Nothing fancy, just a D70, the kit lens and a Hoya R72.

 

In this shot, the clouds had passed right in front of the sun as I set up. Being that it was lunchtime I had about 10 minutes to shoot. When the sun poked out of the clouds I made a custom white balance setting to the grass. When it poked out again I took a few shots (tripod, timer).

 

In post I did Auto Levels in Photoshop, then inverted the blue/red channels using a Channels adjustment layer. Then I desaturated the yellowness of the tree area using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and mask. Then I created a Channel Mixer adjustment layer set to monochrome, inverted the mask. I painted the clouds a bit to reduce saturation as they had a weird cyan cast. Then, down a few layers, I duplicated the original, applied a gaussian blur, did Image > Apply image and set that duplicate layer to Screen and the layer mode to Overlay, reduced opacity.

 

That's about it. Hope it doesn't spoil the 'magic' for anyone :P

Done