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black and white, Garden Paths, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Infrared, photography, Photomatix Pro, Photoshop CS6
With summer being here, I remembered the trees I did last month when I attempted to make them look like they were done with infrared film, and wondered what that effect would be like if I did on some trees that have lots of leaves.
This is another photo from my scouting trip to Heide. I thought I would try it in a couple of different ways. Here is the image, done as a 3 image HDR processed in Photomatix Pro then it is processed in camera raw in Photoshop CS6.
This is the same image, but has been converted to black and white.
I tried this one using the Channel Mixer and converting it to Infrared. I am fairly certain that infrared film might have done similar. Though, I don’t know, I have never used infrared film. I tried to do the inverted layers, but they didn’t work with this image, which is interesting, compared with what I did to Jim’s images. Just goes to show you can’t always follow a formula and sometimes you have to be prepared to change what you are doing.
Here is the photo from Sunday, I thought I would try it as infrared as well. It was popular in colour, I wonder what you think of it like this.
Quick post today, your reactions and comments to yesterdays post has been really good. Copyright is something we should all be concerned about. I might have to do some more posts on it at some stage.
On another note, for anyone who was looking for the screencast of the tutorial I did a couple of days ago, well I did do it, but for some reason when I put it on my blog the quality was so bad that it isn’t worth looking. I don’t know what WP has done, but the technicians are supposed to be looking into it and finding out what is going on.
I started by opening the image up in Camera Raw, I like the different changes you can make in there.
Hopefully you can see the changes I made there. I have lightened it up a lot, and I tried to lighten the shadows as much as possible.
The image was opened in the Photoshop CS6 and saved, image 1.
The next step was to click on the Invert Adjustment Layer, it will do this to the image. This was saved as well, image 2.
Both versions were opened, then image 2 was selected, copied (Ctrl A, Ctrl C) and then pasted (Ctrl V) on top of the image 1.
The image was blended with Multiply, that is just above the layers there on the right. I also reduced the opacity of the inverted layer, but not by much.
A Levels adjustment layer was opened and the image lightened a bit. The only problem was the tree ended up too light.
To correct this, a Curves Adjustment Layer was opened, and I darkened the tree, and lightened the sky, look at the curve, I have put arrows where I adjusted it.
I then clicked on the Channel Mixer Layer, there I ticked the Monochrome box, and selected the Black & White Infrared in the pull down menu that has Custom written on it.
I used the Content Aware tool to make those areas better. It took a few attempts.
I also added a little gradient to the edges. I am not sure if this is totally what Jim wanted, but it is hard sometimes trying to interpret what someone else wants.
This one came out much better, and I like the atmosphere of it. I hope you like it too Jim.
