Infrared

[Woolsocks]

I'm attempting to use the line of the fence to draw the viewer down the side walk. Taken with open camera. Camera phone. I only have control of shutter, wb, iso, focus (stuck on f stop 2.4).

 

[smoke665]

I've never had any intrest in shooting IR so others will need to chime in on it. From a composition standpoint the fence line does create a strong leading visual but it's unfortunately competing with an even stronger white blob at the top right. I find my eye being drawn toward the blob rather than the sidewalk. Luminosity diffrences, color, shapes, etc. can lead the eye.Was that the intent?

 

[Woolsocks]

I find my eye being drawn toward the blob rather than the sidewalk. Was that the intent?

No it was not. I tried to use blur to draw focus on the leading line. Thanks for input

 

[smoke665]

it was not. I tried to use blur to draw focus on the leading line

Leading lines aren't the only means of drawing the eye. John Hedgecoe wrote at depth on design elements. The human eye is capable of picking up on the most minute point if it's different from the image around it. Leading lines only work if the point it leads to is not overwhelmed by something else in the image.

 

[Golem]

I'm attempting to use the line of the fence to draw the viewer down the side walk. Taken with open camera. Camera phone. I only have control of shutter, wb, iso, focus (stuck on f stop 2.4).

You have considerable thoughts about the fence and walkway but, try as I might, I cant find any visual interest in those two. But something else within the frame greatly interests me.

Above the fence is a sort dream world of light and form and texture. For myself, I copied it and cropped to only that region of the image. I found a few different croppings of that section that were all working well for my eye.

Likewise I tried many different tonal renderings, all of which were fascinating (to me). All variations were just quick edits performed with only the built in editor in my phone, keeping it fun and easy. Your image responds wonderfully to all sorts of quick tweaks !

It seems to be within the rules to post an example, just one of the very many variations I worked out. Its like jazz. I could just keep on improvising almost forever, and all the variations were worthwhile. So, attached here is just one, to show what I was finding in your scene, just the tip of the iceberg.

BTW, I know my experiments are not related to the nature of IR imaging but, TBH, I see nothing especially IR related in your posted image. Why did you choose to shoot it in that spectrum ?

 

[Woolsocks]

I did not shoot in Infrared. Sorry smokey for the illusion. As I was editing I realized I could make a convincing Imitation IR image. I wanted to see if anyone would notice. No one did.

Yet that was only half of what I wanted. And I got the other half from smokey.

I have no problem anyone editing my images. The added grain and color. Interesting idea .