Bowling Green. Now I don’t think you are going to see many images processed this way. It began as a digital infrared shot with the 450d. Then it went into the Adobe DNG Profiler. This allows you to pull the color temperature down to something reasonable so that the image is no longer pink. And finally, it was hurtled into the Photomatix tonemapping with fairly standard settings.
You say – what is the Adobe DNG Profiler? Well, it lets you make custom calibration profiles for your camera, and it very useful if you are shooting with color temperatures that are outside of what Lightroom or Photoshop can understand since they are below the normal wavelengths – i.e. they are infrared. The program is free, and thankfully is available in both mac and pc versions and I just downloaded and installed the mac version.
Just out of curiousity Dave, are you importing your RAW files as Canon RAW or converting to DNG on import? Adobe would probably like us all to use the DNG standard but I’m not sure we would ever need to.
Good shot too. No obvious HDR manipulation to be seen!
Regards, Dennis.
They are imported as Canon RAW. I am only using the DNG profiler to create profiles for certain types of images, and that’s the only time I’ve been going DNG. In other words, I might create a DNG of a typical infrared shot from camera xyz, and then that profile gets used in the calibration setting as a starting point for most infrared files from that camera. Only one DNG created, but the profile from it used over and over.