Digital Color Infrared Photography (IR) tutorial - infrared photos - whitebalancing ir-photos - channelshifting (swap red and blue channel) more ir-fotos can be found here: ./portfolio/INFRARED/ tutorial to create ir-composite photos: ./tutircomposite/ tutorial to modify the pentax for ir: ./tutirmodding/ used hardware Pentax istDS Digital SLR Hoya Infrared Filter IR092 (58mm) Tripod used software CaptureOne Pro v3.7.2 www.phaseone.com RAW Converter Photoshop CS2 www.adobe.com Image Processing Software Xe847 Pro (PS-Plugin) www.xe847.com Color Correction Plugin Neat Image Pro+ Edition www.neatimage.com Noise Reduction (and Sharping) Plugin/Standalone Software image format source format Pentax RAW 12bit working format TIFF 16bit target format JPEG 8bit take the Infrared Picture mount the camera on a tripod the the image format to RAW to allow whitebalance correction in raw-software mount the IR-filter set the camera whitebalance by spotting to green grass activate the autofocus because the AF can correct the ir-spectrum shift set camera to manual exposure set ISO 200 for min. noise set f16 to f22 for max.deepness set 10 to 30sec depending on light situation -> check the histogram the camera internal whitebalance settings are limited. as a result of this the image is not neutral colored. we need to whitebalance the image in the raw-processing sotfware again. that's why you have to take the picture in RAW-format. the unprocessed image should look like this start PHASE ONE's CAPTURE ONE (www.phaseone.com) select the raw format image the unprocessed RAW image will look like this change to the whitebalance-tab and select the trees or clouds as a reference point for the whitebalance convert the raw format to 16bit TIFF after whitebalancing the picture looks good but the sky has an unnatural brown color start ABOBE's PHOTOSHOP CS2 (www.adobe.com) load the generated 16bit TIFF file and correct the hot/stuck pixels with the cone-stamp tool now select menu->image->adjustments->channel mixer... set "output channel" to red set "source channel - red" to 0% set "source channel - blue" to 100% for the next step you need to convert the 16bit image to 8bit: menu->image->mode->8bit now open the plugin "Xe847Pro" to adjust the colors to a warmer tone. the resulting image will look like this long exposed infrared photos are always a little bit noisy and very unsharp open the "Neatimage Pro"-Plugin in Photoshop or the "Neatimage" standalone application to correct the noiselevel use Neatimage to sharp the image in one step with the noise reduction save the image as a JPEG file the resulting image unprocessed image after whitebalancing after channelshifting {hot link to this tutorial: http://www.xdeltax.com/tutinfrared/index.html}