BackdoorArts
Senior Member
FYI, with the "channel swapped" images in the link above, you manually swap the Red and Blue light channels in Photoshop/Elements. It's a common methodology in IR photography (there are better explanations of the why's and what for's out on the web than I can give you here). It makes for a more dynamic looking image than the process I often use, which is a color mapping profile applied to my RAW file in Lightroom/ACR (this is applied in ACR the same way you would apply the Nikon Vivid or Nikon Landscape profiles - it's a custom profile called D7000 IR that my brother the camera genius built for me). It works much like a channel swap, but doesn't change the orientation of the colors in the image data. What I mean by that is that once you channel swap, Red is Blue and Blue is Red, so you need to think that whenever you play with color data because the computer things Red is still Red and Blue is still Blue.
I still use channel swapping, but it's a little more time consuming. It depends on what I want to do. If you look at the IR stuff in my Flickr pics the "cotton candy" photos are more channel swapped than the subtle blue & yellows I get from the profile method.
I still use channel swapping, but it's a little more time consuming. It depends on what I want to do. If you look at the IR stuff in my Flickr pics the "cotton candy" photos are more channel swapped than the subtle blue & yellows I get from the profile method.
