Jade Lyon in Infrared

Last night at the Camera Club Portrait Group we had Jade Lyon back again to sit for us. This girl has real energy and is a pleasure to photograph.

Towards the end of the evening I though I would see what the images would look like if I used my Infrared Camera. A number of years ago I took an on-line course on infrared photography created by Alexandra Morrison ( http://nature-photography-central.com ) She had taken IR portraits as part of her examples. I was captivated by the 'milky skin, near black eyes and Blue hair :)

I have played about with a couple of my grandchildren before and was pleased with the 'non-real results' - almost ghostly. Jade I thought would be a good experiment.

Here are the initial results. Although I took some of the images into photoshop and 'channel swapped' / converted to monochrome I was very please with images and their colourisation from Lightroom (those with a 'purple tone and silver  blue hair).

My next blog will be on the 'Normal Photos' I took last night.

Infrared Grandchild

Introducing 7 of 9, Evelyn aka Beanie.

I been looking at Infrared Portraits on Instagram and today my 'willing model' was Beanie.

A few pictures all processed in Photoshop. The ones with 'brown skies' where infrared with 'normal false colouration', The ones with 'grey skies' where where I channel swapped the blue and the red and reduced the saturation on the blue channel.

Today I was looking for milky white skin with jet black eyes. I was quite please with the results, have a look for your self.

The jet black eyes, so called dead eye can be quite disturbing. I am looking at techniques to bring a bit of life back into the eyes. More experimentation :)