Infrared layered on top of color image, luminosity blend mode. This means that the IR image lightens/darken the colors of the normal image, creating a surreal look. It has a large effect on area's with lots of IR light such as sky and foliage and in this case also affected the colors or the graffiti.
It came out with a good grunge look, after some further desaturation.
Full processing (all on total image except clone stamp of step 6):
1) auto levels on IR image (to remove green color cast) and lighten midtones with curves
2) layer IR on top of normal image, luminosity blend mode
3) scale IR image to match the normal image and then crop (as result of wavelenght IR results in different focus and therefore smaller image angle when compared to visible light)
4) desaturate -33%
5) curve
6) remove light post and part of fence (replace with background tree and grass)
7) add 3% noise
8) resize for dpc and unsharp mask
It was checked with SC beforehand whether step 2 was legal in standard editing and it was concluded that it is covered by the muti-image rule (in line with for example HDR images)
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An astonishing photo, disturbing, disorienting: the two slabs of graffiti are vile enough but it is the parkland beyond, itself like a mural lighted as in a storm or dream, that sets it up.
When we were discussing the legality of this technique I was very curious to see the effect, and hoping you'd post information on the technique so I and others could steal adapt it for our own use -- thanks!
For area's without foliage, you could do it by copying the color layer, converting that layer to grayscale and then blending it with the color. But the infrared effect on foliage is hard to replicate. Maybe with some local editing it would be possible.
Here is another image where I applied the same technique:
And this was the first one where I did it
When we were discussing the legality of this technique I was very curious to see the effect, and hoping you'd post information on the technique so I and others could steal adapt it for our own use -- thanks!
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