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Graveyard at the hill of Tara in InfraRed
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Went over to the Hill of Tara last week as i was not there in years. Took the below two Infrared shots in the grave yard beside the church. Let me know what you think?
Look like winter! Seriously, it doesn’t look like IR at all. Cool.
Is the vignetting intenional?
Yea the vignetting was added by myself by doing a bit of burning in PS. Was trying to use it to frame the shot and balance the picture a bit as the top half was slightly darker than the bottom half. Not sure if the vignetting helps the picture i think it does:-)
Martin
Love the second one Martin, though I feel you could have gotten
a little lower on the shot to improve it.
Not too sure about the first. It might just be this monitor, but all
the detail of the grass seems to have just melted together and taken
away any real texture that might have been there.
Love the IR stuff by the way, and I’d love to see how you actually
go about putting this work together, from capture right through to
presentation. Most of it is simply amazing.Rob.
Love the second one Martin, though I feel you could have gotten
a little lower on the shot to improve it.Yes i agree in hind site i should have gotten lower from looking at the exif data the shot was taken at 17mm and the lens goes down to 12mm so i should have got down closer
Not too sure about the first. It might just be this monitor, but all
the detail of the grass seems to have just melted together and taken
away any real texture that might have been there.Yes had a look the grass on the right hand side and a bit on the left of the front head stone, it is a bit over whitened/over exposed. Created a more contrasty version below to see if the detail comes out in the grass as the TIF file shows that there is detail there. I think it comes out a bit better in the shot below but maybe the whole picture is a bit to contrasty now so I will have to play with it in PS a bit more
Love the IR stuff by the way, and I’d love to see how you actually
go about putting this work together, from capture right through to
presentation. Most of it is simply amazing.Thanks Rob its easy enough putting the IR pics together. When taking the picture you have to think differently to when your taking colour shots. When i process the images I get a red, black, white and a bit of blue image from the IR camera and then i just converted it to B+W and play around with the curves and do a bit of dodging and burning. You should give it a go just get your hands on a R72 filter and screw it onto the front of your camera lens
Thanks again all
MartinWas there earlier this year, it’s a tough place to get a photo because it’s fairly compact…I think I managed to get one decent shot.
I’m not a big fan of IR, to me it just looks wrong, and that distracts me too much from enjoying the image.
Just so’s you know where I’m coming from with the comments below.The second one is nicely composed, and I wouldn’t see much advantage in shooting it in IR, BW or colour.
It does have far more detail in the grass than the second, and a good range of tones and detail overall.The first is very good composition, the only niggle being the top of the tombstone in the foreground touching one of the tombstones in the background – it just needs to have it’s own space. The second thing would be, as Rob pointed out, the lack of detail in the grass; it’s such a big part of the image yet there’s so little clarity there.
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