Infrared Photoshop Tutorials (Online)

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So I decided to try my hand at doing some "infrared"-esk work on some older images of mine. I found a couple of tutorials online and most of them I don't think understood what infrared actually looked like. So I provided an image from my friend Miles from when he shot some infrared of my friend Jessica.  That story aside, I am probably going to do a good tutorial on how to provide a good infrared tutorial or technique.

Tutorial number 1 was the first online black and white tutorial that I found and I originally thought it worked pretty well even though there are a couple of things I could fix or make it a bit better. The normal black and white green channel is on the right while the edited green channel is on the left. So you can see the effect of the editing.

Tutorial number 2 started in color so I was wondering where they might go with this edit. Thankfully they popped it into black and white via the channel mixer. It matches up pretty well but it probably could be improved a bit more to make it look more (tonally) like the image Miles took. So in the near future be prepared you photoheads for a small tutorial I will make about doing an infrared process. It probably will be about as complicated as the layers on the right of Tutorial #2 but it won't be too horribly complicated.

Renee Gherman Photoshoot

     So this shoot I got to play with both of my new wireless receivers, which work like a charm in the day. The only real issue was the auto focus at night which over half of the shoot was at night. I did get some nice light. I was using my 580exII as a main flash with my spotlight and a 430ex as the kicker light. It was a fun shoot that got some awesome ice cream and creamsicle rooibos tea. I would like to do more wireless strobes in the near future but for now I need to save up for my 5dmII.

 

 Things I did while writing this blog post:

Chatted it up about changing my hair

Uploaded the photos to flickr

 Watched some Tele