Infrared Church's

vulcan2912

Hi

Here are a few infrared pics taken at a couple of local church's over the last 2 weeks.All taken with a ir converted 20D and 17-40L.

St Bridget's,Moresby,Cumbria,UK








St Kentigern's,Crosthwaite,Keswick,Cumbria,UK








Cheers
Gary

DYancy

Beautiful effect! By the way, the plural of church is "churches". Church's would be singular possessive.

manta1900

Great shots... #3 and #5 are my favourites!

Phyxius

Wow, IR works REALLY, REALLY well with gothic churches. Super cool and spooky. I bet you could make a "goth" calendar out of images like this. Very cool. I know nothin about IR, so except saying "ohhhhh pretty" I can't contribute much.

Thanks for posting, these are great!

Swartzy

Heh, yea

Phyxius wrote:

Wow, IR works REALLY, REALLY well with gothic churches. Super cool and spooky. I bet you could make a "goth" calendar out of images like this. Very cool. I know nothin about IR, so except saying "ohhhhh pretty" I can't contribute much.

Thanks for posting, these are great!

I'll second that! :ivar

Mr. 2H2O

Gary,
REALLY nice post processing. I enjoy the way to alter the mood in post. Very nice shots.

Mike

pug8

Way cool! Thanks for sharing these.

System

very nice, gary-

loved all of them-

particularly liked #5-

erich6

I like #3 and #6 the best. Do you purposely add the soft look/glow with a Gaussian overlay or is that the focus you are getting from the camera?

Erich

davidryan

Strange how IR can make a perfectly pleasant church look so spooky! I really enjoyed them though-- very good pics. I especially like the first one-- that arch is gorgeous.

HEP

Great Shots Gary.......keep up the great work....fantastic...
Harry

vulcan2912

Hi

Thanks for all the generous comments.I'm glad so many people like them.

Erich-I add the blur to some photos in post processing.I normally create a second layer and add a gaussian blur of about 25.I then change the blending mode to either multiply or screen and then adjust the layer opacity to get the effect that I'm after.

Cheers
Gary

erich6

vulcan2912 wrote:

Hi

Thanks for all the generous comments.I'm glad so many people like them.

Erich-I add the blur to some photos in post processing.I normally create a second layer and add a gaussian blur of about 25.I then change the blending mode to either multiply or screen and then adjust the layer opacity to get the effect that I'm after.

Cheers
Gary

Thanks Gary. I suspected that was the case but wanted to make sure. I've heard that depending on the way it's done and what camera you are using you can get in a situation where the IR wavelengths focus at a different point than the visible wavelengths causing a soft focus effect. The 20D is a camera I may someday convert to IR....

Erich

CatOne

First two are pretty "meh" to me. Didn't really feel anything special.

The third one, and many of the subsequent ones, where you added blue color back to the sky... I really like. #3 and #6 (with the tree on the left) are my favorites.