It turned out to be a wonderful autumnal day here in South Wales, and we visited Rest Bay in Porthcawl. It is an area that I had never photographed with a long lens, and there was a particular composition that I had always wanted, so on the way up on the walk I used my Tamron 150-500mm lens, and on the way back I used my vintage Soligor 35mm F/2.8 lens.
It was also a great opportunity to use my Infrared camera, and so I also present the images from that camera. I have used the straight from camera jpegs for the main images (using a tweaked Nikon Standard colour profile) and I edited the infrared images in Darktable.
Images taken with the Nikon Z6ii and Tamron 150-500mm lens.
Images taken with the Nikon Z6ii and Soligor 35mm F/2.8 lens.
Images taken with the Pansonic TZ10 coverted IR camera (680nm).
It was a brilliant day out. I am really happy with the way the Tamron 150-500mm lens handles, I am happy with the Soligor 35mm F/2.8 vintage lens, and I am really happy that I now have an infrared camera.
For the infrared images, I adjusted the white balance, and then swapped red and blue channels, which is the standard way of achieving false-colour IR images. I then run them through a little filter in Photoscape X Pro which gave them a little pop. The different colourings are the result of different amounts of sunlight, from very overcast to very bright.
Thank you for you time, I hope you enjoyed.
Nice photos and the infrared ones are also great.
Thanks Marc, much appreciated.
is there any free software program to apply infrared effects to a picture ?
You can make “fake” IR in most software. I believe you can also apply LUTs in software that also create the effect of needed. I will look into this.