Comments on: Colour IR Photoshop ® action – free download http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/ Creative resources for all pro photographers Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:49:18 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: damien http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 damien Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:32:28 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-1082 Hi Daniel, You will notice a banner link to ACS on the right panel. All the IR pictures on this site bar 3 were taken on my ACS modified Canon DSLR. All the info you need is <a href="http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/how-to-shoot-digital-colour-infrared-pictures/" rel="nofollow">here</a> :) I hope this helps. Happy Christmas, Damien. Hi Daniel,

You will notice a banner link to ACS on the right panel. All the IR pictures on this site bar 3 were taken on my ACS modified Canon DSLR. All the info you need is here :)

I hope this helps. Happy Christmas,

Damien.

]]> By: Daniel valla http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-1076 Daniel valla Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:54:56 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-1076 Hi Damien, Interested to read about your findings on Digital infrared. I have been experimenting too on the subject. I've used the 17-35 2.8L on non modified Canon EOS CMOS sensor cameras and fixed a gelatine filter (Lee 87) in the rear holder of the lens. The filter is visually opaque, IR transmission begins above 730 nanometers. The inconvenience of this are: 1- You cannot see through the lens, (so I used the Hasselblad SWC viewfinder on the Canon hotshoe for helping composing the picture) 2- The exposure time is rather long (if you shoot landscape at 5.6 or f8, coud take 60 seconds. 3- You need to set the infinity slightly before the mark, as focusing can only be done manually. 4-You only get pure B&W results. no colour at all. There is however a company in UK who specialise in converting DSLR cameras to infrared. Their website is www.advancedcameraservices.co.uk I spoke to David who explained they replace the low pass filter with plain glass and reset the focus so the you can focus normally through viewfinder, and you get shots with some colour. I was told the cost of conversion for a Canon 5D is £210+Vat+ postage. I have not converted my camera yet but would be interested to know if someone out there has done it this way. With best wishes for Christmas andnew year, Daniel Hi Damien,
Interested to read about your findings on Digital infrared.
I have been experimenting too on the subject. I’ve used the 17-35 2.8L on non modified Canon EOS CMOS sensor cameras and fixed a gelatine filter (Lee 87) in the rear holder of the lens. The filter is visually opaque, IR transmission begins above 730 nanometers.
The inconvenience of this are:
1- You cannot see through the lens, (so I used the Hasselblad SWC viewfinder on the Canon hotshoe for helping composing the picture)
2- The exposure time is rather long (if you shoot landscape at 5.6 or f8, coud take 60 seconds.
3- You need to set the infinity slightly before the mark, as focusing can only be done manually.
4-You only get pure B&W results. no colour at all.

There is however a company in UK who specialise in converting DSLR cameras to infrared. Their website is http://www.advancedcameraservices.co.uk
I spoke to David who explained they replace the low pass filter with plain glass and reset the focus so the you can focus normally through viewfinder, and you get shots with some colour.
I was told the cost of conversion for a Canon 5D is £210+Vat+ postage. I have not converted my camera yet but would be interested to know if someone out there has done it this way.
With best wishes for Christmas andnew year,
Daniel

]]> By: damien http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-1043 damien Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:27:06 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-1043 Hi John, Well it depends what your subject is. The colour effects are likely to be difficult to replicate however if you shift the hues on certain parts of the image you may be getting close. (Use the Hue Sat Luminance palete). In ir photography green foliage usually is rendered a near white and a bit fluffy but not like overexposed normal rendition. Blue skies are rendered darker and the look can be replicated easily by dropping the luminance of the blues right down. The snag with lightroom is you cant work on a just a selection. More success can be had with Photoshop but the joy of shooting ir is you get wow pictures straight from camera. I hope this helps, Damien. Hi John,

Well it depends what your subject is. The colour effects are likely to be difficult to replicate however if you shift the hues on certain parts of the image you may be getting close. (Use the Hue Sat Luminance palete). In ir photography green foliage usually is rendered a near white and a bit fluffy but not like overexposed normal rendition. Blue skies are rendered darker and the look can be replicated easily by dropping the luminance of the blues right down. The snag with lightroom is you cant work on a just a selection. More success can be had with Photoshop but the joy of shooting ir is you get wow pictures straight from camera.

I hope this helps,

Damien.

]]> By: John Rahim http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 John Rahim Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:40:30 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-1040 Hi Damien do you know if there is a way to get an IR effect using Lightroom 2? Cheers John Hi Damien do you know if there is a way to get an IR effect using Lightroom 2? Cheers John

]]> By: erica http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-412 erica Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:07:58 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-412 I just got my old 10D converted by Spencer's Camera in Utah - it was $300 for a standard IR conversion (leaves in some color - not pure b&w which is another $50). I just got my old 10D converted by Spencer’s Camera in Utah – it was $300 for a standard IR conversion (leaves in some color – not pure b&w which is another $50).

]]> By: damien http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-331 damien Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:26:10 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-331 Hi John, You ought to get it done by a camera repair specialist with a clean room. They will be able to quote you to do the job. It involves collimation and resetting the focus for infrared use. Damien. Hi John,

You ought to get it done by a camera repair specialist with a clean room. They will be able to quote you to do the job. It involves collimation and resetting the focus for infrared use.

Damien.

]]> By: John Rahim http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-326 John Rahim Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:13:27 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-326 Hi Damien I am thinking about upgrading my bodies and converting my 5D to infrared. How difficult is this to do and roughly how much does it cost? Cheers John Hi Damien I am thinking about upgrading my bodies and converting my 5D to infrared. How difficult is this to do and roughly how much does it cost? Cheers John

]]> By: Richie Owens http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Richie Owens Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:08:50 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-132 Hi I tried it with firefox and it works. The problem seems to be when you try and use safari to download it. Cheers Richie Hi

I tried it with firefox and it works. The problem seems to be when you try and use safari to download it.

Cheers

Richie

]]> By: martin http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-23 martin Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:48:24 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-23 @kev Did you start off with an infra red file? Damien's action takes a file from an infrared camera and gives it a look. You can get actions that will take a regular colour file and make it look sort-of infrared, but this isn't one of those. Unless you have a camera converted for IR use this isn't going to work. @kev

Did you start off with an infra red file? Damien’s action takes a file from an infrared camera and gives it a look. You can get actions that will take a regular colour file and make it look sort-of infrared, but this isn’t one of those. Unless you have a camera converted for IR use this isn’t going to work.

]]> By: Kevin Etherington http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Kevin Etherington Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:39:21 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-22 Hi Damien, I tried the action but instead of everything going infrared everything went green, Any ideas as to where I went wrong. Thanks, Kev Hi Damien,
I tried the action but instead of everything going infrared everything went green,
Any ideas as to where I went wrong.
Thanks,
Kev

]]> By: martin http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-19 martin Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:17:12 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-19 @richie: Its working fine here. If you just click the link it will auto install the action in Photoshop in a new action set called Damien Lovegrove Infrared. If you want to save the action to disk, right click and "save as" and specify a save location. You can then load it into the actions palette from the palette menu. Hope that helps @richie:

Its working fine here. If you just click the link it will auto install the action in Photoshop in a new action set called Damien Lovegrove Infrared. If you want to save the action to disk, right click and “save as” and specify a save location. You can then load it into the actions palette from the palette menu.

Hope that helps

]]> By: Richie Owens http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Richie Owens Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:03:48 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-18 download doesn't seem to be working any ideas? Cheers Richie download doesn’t seem to be working any ideas?

Cheers

Richie

]]> By: martin http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-14 martin Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:15:20 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-14 (a) Process takes a true IR digital file (as jpeg) from the camera and pulls it about to give you the pseudo colour results you see here. (b) No IR filter is used on the lens. A new filter is placed over the sensor during conversion at ACS that allows through primarily IR but also a lot of visible red hence the need to custom white balance. (c) Digital, no film required :) (a) Process takes a true IR digital file (as jpeg) from the camera and pulls it about to give you the pseudo colour results you see here.

(b) No IR filter is used on the lens. A new filter is placed over the sensor during conversion at ACS that allows through primarily IR but also a lot of visible red hence the need to custom white balance.

(c) Digital, no film required :)

]]> By: Tom http://www.prophotonut.com/2008/08/12/colour-ir-photoshop-action-free-download/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Tom Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:55:16 +0000 http://www.prophotonut.com/?p=47#comment-12 Daft question - sorry beforehand - is your infra-red process based upon a) Tweaking the camera to take "proper" infra-red photos b) Using a infrared filter c) Using infra-red film (though as we are talking about digital files here i assume not) Lovely set of photos also Daft question – sorry beforehand – is your infra-red process based upon

a) Tweaking the camera to take “proper” infra-red photos

b) Using a infrared filter

c) Using infra-red film (though as we are talking about digital files here i assume not)

Lovely set of photos also

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