So I recently bought a Neewer 720nm infrared filter for my Nikon D5300...and the results aren't great so far!
Here's one that went wrong, but still looks great (In my opinion anyway):
Naturally, playing with InfraRed filters, I wanted the deep blue skies and the pure white foliage...quite different to the result I got above.
I've had a play around and I have managed to get the blue skies part OK, but I can't get the whiteness on the trees / grass. They just go a kinda dull grey.
So far, I've tried the following:
-Daylight WB
-ISO100
-Shutter 4"
-Aperture f/8-10
-Filter on
This produced lots of nice red pictures, none of which I could do anything with. So I went away and had a read around the web. Next day, I tried the following:
-Custom WB (Set by taking a full frame photo of grass. Produced a great unfiltered picture with some bizarre colours!)
-ISO100
-Shutter 5-10"
-Aperture f/8-16
-Filter on
This enabled me to produce the above image and some (which I don't have on my works PC) with a really good, deep blue sky, but dull grey grass. In lightroom, I dropped the temp right down as far as it would go, and played with the Hue's a little to drop some of the orange / magenta tones. Then I moved to PS and did the colour palette switch (Reds for Blues and vice-versa). I reduced the saturation of the red hue and changed the Magenta hue to get the blue sky, boosted the saturation and changed the lightness a little. But I couldn't do anything to get the grass and leaves to go white.
I'm planning on going out again this evening, weather permitting, to try again. This time taking a Custom WB with the filter on and see if that improves it any, but I was hoping I could get some advice from the Masters of this site beforehand for any other tips / recommendations. Thanks.
Here's one that went wrong, but still looks great (In my opinion anyway):
Naturally, playing with InfraRed filters, I wanted the deep blue skies and the pure white foliage...quite different to the result I got above.
I've had a play around and I have managed to get the blue skies part OK, but I can't get the whiteness on the trees / grass. They just go a kinda dull grey.
So far, I've tried the following:
-Daylight WB
-ISO100
-Shutter 4"
-Aperture f/8-10
-Filter on
This produced lots of nice red pictures, none of which I could do anything with. So I went away and had a read around the web. Next day, I tried the following:
-Custom WB (Set by taking a full frame photo of grass. Produced a great unfiltered picture with some bizarre colours!)
-ISO100
-Shutter 5-10"
-Aperture f/8-16
-Filter on
This enabled me to produce the above image and some (which I don't have on my works PC) with a really good, deep blue sky, but dull grey grass. In lightroom, I dropped the temp right down as far as it would go, and played with the Hue's a little to drop some of the orange / magenta tones. Then I moved to PS and did the colour palette switch (Reds for Blues and vice-versa). I reduced the saturation of the red hue and changed the Magenta hue to get the blue sky, boosted the saturation and changed the lightness a little. But I couldn't do anything to get the grass and leaves to go white.
I'm planning on going out again this evening, weather permitting, to try again. This time taking a Custom WB with the filter on and see if that improves it any, but I was hoping I could get some advice from the Masters of this site beforehand for any other tips / recommendations. Thanks.