Sing for Prayers

[JimFox]

This was a prayer dance performed in the old town plaza of Santa Fe yesterday. This one I channeled swapped since I didn't do it with the two guys Singing the Blues. One thing I am finding out as I have done a few recently with people is IR makes people with white skin to look ghostly white, and then with the brown tones here in the indians face they turned more purple. I am sure I am doing something wrong, but I do recall reading that IR did strange things when using it to shoot portraits of people. Hopefully Amy can give me some tips, or anyone else too.

I did change the color balance for the indians face to be a bit more yellow and it knocked down the purple hue a bit while processing this.

Nikon D7100 590nm IR
Channel Swapped

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice work with this.

My attitude with IR is that we get to render the color palette as we see fit to be honest so what you did here is exactly what was needed.

 

[Ben Egbert]

The process you used made for a very clear image with great brightness in the shadows without losing detail or contrast.

 

[Amy Nelson]

I can't help you with skin, as a rule I don't IR people. Jim Peterson would be the person to ask (is he even on FW anymore?). I think you did a great job with this. Cool capture!