Cemetery findings

Deanna Alko

Decided to walk around a local cemetery and quickly became enamored with the many different water spigots available. Of course, headstones were not in short supply either. C&C appreciated... (esp. the processing on the IR images) Thanks.

Take care,
- Deanna

saurora

So you found a theme within a theme!!! Great shots. I noticed the spigots when I visited our local cemetary, too. They made handy perches for the birds I ended up shooting. The birds were my unexpected find at a cemetary.

ShepsMom

I really like the 2nd shot, really cool processing.

Mr. 2H2O

Oh thats funny...I just processed an IR shot with the same tones as your #2 this week. I wanted to try something different - I ended up with the same red hue sky and bluish vegitation.

Nice angles.

- Mike

Skippy

Deanna Alko wrote:

Decided to walk around a local cemetery and quickly became enamored with the many different water spigots available. Of course, headstones were not in short supply either. C&C appreciated... (esp. the processing on the IR images) Thanks.

Take care,
- Deanna

Hi Deanna, I particuallary like your IR Shots, the second shot in the series looks great and in the last IR Shot I noticed you've captured the water drops in mid air dripping into the drain Well Done!

.... Nice Work Deanna .... Skippy
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tlee

Nice images. I really like the 2nd shot!

Deanna Alko

Thanks
Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the feedback.

- Susan - no birds on the spigots here (at least not yet) they were all busy in the grass a whole cluster of them however, once I was set to snap a picture they all flew off. I've got to hand it to the nature & wildlife folks!

- Marina and tlee - thank you again. I'm still unsure about how to handle the IR world but I'm glad you liked it.

Deanna Alko

Skippy wrote:

in the last IR Shot I noticed you've captured the water drops in mid air dripping into the drain
.... Skippy
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Thanks Skippy! I was excited about the water drops and in PP used a layer set to blending mode - vibrant light, just to help them stand out a little more.

Deanna Alko

Mr. 2H2O wrote:

Oh thats funny...I just processed an IR shot with the same tones as your #2 this week. I wanted to try something different - I ended up with the same red hue sky and bluish vegitation.

Nice angles.

- Mike

IThanks Mike. If you wouldn't mind posting it, I'd love to see your image
Additionally, if you would share your processing technique I'd appreciate it. I used selective color adj. working on the neutral option and curves but I'm not sure this was the best way?

Take care,
- Deanna

Mr. 2H2O

Deanna,
I am attaching the image I had been working on. One of my iterations was with blue foilage but I ended up with green.

The workflow is really up to your own eye and pleasure. sometimes I'll do a B&W, sometimes a hue, sometimes try to stretch a colorful image.

Lately, I've been enjoying the channel swap method by going into channel mixer and I have traditionally switched the blue and red channels to give a blue sky and white foilage.

For this one, I chose to switch the blue and green channels and leave the red alone. In my white balance on the camera, I use a target which allows for some blues and greens to register on the bayer pattern. Since I shoot a Sony F717, my only option is jpg. After the channel swap, I play with the color temperature and saturation just to give it a more pleasing look. Then I use an edge effect to pop the outline of the leaves. I use PSP 9.0.

- Mike

Deanna Alko

Wow!

Mike thank you for posting and sharing your technique, I'll have to give this a try!

Regards,
- Deanna

Dalantech

I especially like the second image! I think it would have worked as a "normal" photo, the IR processing just puts it over the top!

Deanna Alko

Dalantech wrote:

I especially like the second image! I think it would have worked as a "normal" photo, the IR processing just puts it over the top!

Thanks for taking the time to comment, Dalantech!