Interested to see what others can do with these files. I wanted to bring out the contrasts using the channel mixer but couldn’t really figure out how to do that efficiently.
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You could use color (“false” color, with channels swapped, etc.) contrast to separate the foreground from the background more.
Once you have something with color contrast, you could also use that as a preliminary step and add a color calibration module for color balance near the end of the pipeline (control-shift-click and drag up) to make a version with dark skies (by making sure the blue channel is low).
Ah, this is nice. I find a lot of the false colour stuff too much but this is subtle. Also, I hadn’t thought of moving the calibration module higher in the pipeline. Thanks!
I think I can see the vignette-removing mask now there’s colour, unless it’s a hotspot
When I’ve done IR before, I’ve seen a hotspot on my images too. Some lenses have it much more than others. I think it’s fairly common with IR photography.
I didn’t adjust for that, but, yeah, I see it in the image too. Perhaps one of the modules I used (or how I used it) adds banding. It could also be related to one of the color channels and converting to b/w might’ve mitigated it some?
It’s definitely worth looking more into this.
Oh: I forgot to say: Lovely captures, by the way!
I’m afraid this isn’t really what you were looking for, but I love this shot and like the colouring in this version…
And the other… treated in mostly the same way. Not so sure about this result.
Oh, I like the first one particularly. Much more 3D with the colours. I can see the hotspot shows up again in the second in colour. I think that was using an old 75-150 minolta zoom.
Nice. You managed to largely remove the hotspot. Also, a lot of clarity in the swan pic
