Tower Hamlets Cemetry - Infra Red plus others

This post is a bit out of sequence. After our walk around Tower Hamletts area we returned to the Cemetery. It was getting towards late afternoon and I decided to try a bit more with the Infra Red filter. With the exception of the last photo they were all taken with the IR Filter and processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

For these IR Photos I followed the following steps

1. To start with I created a DNG Profile in Adobe Labs DNG Profile editor to create a 'cooler' image in the white balance. This profile was then exported and then activated in Lightroom.

2. For each photo I then adjusted the white balance in Lightroom so the 'Temp= about 7172' and the 'Tint= about +29'

3. I adjusted the exposure, contrast and clarity in Lightroom to get a 'pleasing image'

4. I opened the image in Photoshop and the swapped the Red and Blue Channel in the Channel mixer.

5. I added a levels layer and adjusted the Red and Blue channels.

6 I then added a Hue/Saturation Layer and played with the colours.

The above is only a general workflow. If you want the details I used to start by IR Journey then look at this web site ....

http://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-in-depth-guid-to-infrared-photography-processing--photo-9540

A Walk round the Tower Hamlets Area

After being in the Cemetery for a couple of hours we left to find some food. These pictures are from the walk around the Tower Hamlets area. I must admit it did not feel like we were in London at all.

The pictures in the old 'School House' are from a warehouse that was the location were Dr Barnardo opened his first home for orphaned children in 1870 - an organisation that is still going strong today.

Tower Hamlets Cemetery

Back in May a few of us from the Cambridge Camera Club visited Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. This cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven London Cemeteries and is the second one of the seven that we have visited. (We visited Abney Park Cemetery in April 2014 and there are two previous posts on my blog)

You can read about this cemetery in Wikipedia by following this link 

It was closed to burials in 1966 and like the other six magnificent cemetery's they have become a haven for wildlife and a restful place to walk through.

We arrived mid to late morning in London and spent a couple of hours in the cemetery. We then went off for some lunch and a walk around Tower Hamlets. We later returned late afternoon and I spent some time playing with an infra red filter on my camera. This post is from the first few hours in the cemetery.