This photo is dedicated to my mother, whom we proved the last honour in this funeral hall two years ago. But feel free to concentrate just on the photo itself.
getting good IR results with a 20D is extremely difficult. First of all we need to shoot in RAW, because a lot of post procession is needed. Second we need custom white balance ... do it in-camera withg the filter attached on a white piece of paper or better with a 18% gray card, if available. Then we need to know, that though the 20D is able to use autofocus in IR, it's not able to meter corrctly through an IR filter ... use M-Mode and overexpose by 5-7 f-stops depending on the lighting conditions.
Regarding the post processing it's important to do a levels correction for every color channel separately ... but beware of banding in the blue channel.
Hi Chris M....I have a question for you.....I have the Canon 20D and the Same lens you have...I also have the hoya R72 IR filter...I have taken 200 shots( all Tri-pod ) and none of them come out...Even after swaping the Red and Blue channels in PS(Photoshop CS2).
What am I doing Wrong, And what is it that I need to do to acheive Awesome IR shots Like yours?
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