Photo Critique - Local Church in Infrared

**Ogofmole** · #1 (**permalink**) 28-04-2009, 18:29

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Took this shot in Infrared of a local church whilst out for a drive the other day. Converted to Monochrome using Silver Efex Pro.

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**grezmel** · #2 (**permalink**) 28-04-2009, 18:35

Love infra-red shots, including this one, sorry cant serious critique, will leave that to the experts..... how did the non-converted Silver Efex Pro version turn out ?

**Ogofmole** · #3 (**permalink**) 28-04-2009, 18:53

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Originally Posted by grezmel

Love infra-red shots, including this one, sorry cant serious critique, will leave that to the experts..... how did the non-converted Silver Efex Pro version turn out ?

Hi Graham, thanks for your comment, I'm off out soon, but will post a attachment of the original image tomorrow for you to see.

**Ogofmole** · #4 (**permalink**) 29-04-2009, 19:27

This the shot straight out of the camera.

cannockwolf · #5 (**permalink**) 13-10-2009, 20:02

nice image there barry, nice subject and great composition

i think your loosing detail a bit in the grass at the front though, i notice from your original photo its still quite red, have you done a custom white balance on some grass in bright sunlight? this will give a greatly improve the detail in the photos and help not to loose details in the bright bits of grass etc, when i did this on mine it was a great help i keeping things under control

rhart44 · #6 (**permalink**) 13-10-2009, 21:30

I think the out of the camera image addresses my concerns about the posted image, all of which were minor. The final image seems to be a slight crop which loses part of the big tree to the right, part of the gravestone to the right and part of the gravestone to the left. I would have preferred the final image to retain the tree and gravestone to the right in their entirety while losing all of the gravestone to the left. I know that's really nit picking comment for what is a stunning treatment of a beautiful building. I think the image is about the church and the tree, so I want to see all of both of them.

**Ogofmole** · #7 (**permalink**) 14-10-2009, 22:16

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Originally Posted by cannockwolf

nice image there barry, nice subject and great composition

i think your loosing detail a bit in the grass at the front though, i notice from your original photo its still quite red, have you done a custom white balance on some grass in bright sunlight? this will give a greatly improve the detail in the photos and help not to loose details in the bright bits of grass etc, when i did this on mine it was a great help i keeping things under control

Thanks Dave, I have got my white balance set to 2000, but I agree that some of the detail has been lost, I must play a bit more with this post production stuff, as a lot of your IR images are really great.

**Ogofmole** · #8 (**permalink**) 14-10-2009, 22:21

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Originally Posted by rhart44

I think the out of the camera image addresses my concerns about the posted image, all of which were minor. The final image seems to be a slight crop which loses part of the big tree to the right, part of the gravestone to the right and part of the gravestone to the left. I would have preferred the final image to retain the tree and gravestone to the right in their entirety while losing all of the gravestone to the left. I know that's really nit picking comment for what is a stunning treatment of a beautiful building. I think the image is about the church and the tree, so I want to see all of both of them.

Hi Russell, I agree with you about the tree and gravestone, this was lost when I had to distort the image to get the walls of the church upright, this is because I was shooting from a low level using 18mm focal length. This church is not to far away from me so I may well go back if I'm free when weather conditions are fine for IR photography. But thanks for your comments, as it makes me look at my images again with a different view.

cannockwolf · #9 (**permalink**) 14-10-2009, 22:28

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Originally Posted by Ogofmole

Thanks Dave, I have got my white balance set to 2000,

have you done a custom wb on sunny grass mate as it makes the pictures less red sooc and increases the amoutn of detail captured, it was a real improvement for my work

**Eos1nrs** · #10 (**permalink**) 20-10-2009, 13:17

this popped up in randoms, i missed....always a fan of your infra red work Barry, this ones as good as any i have seen you do..nice work...

question..

i know diddly squat about IR, can this be achieved via software or filters? or does it have to be a special camera??

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