{"id":8322,"date":"2023-11-10T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8322"},"modified":"2023-11-10T18:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T18:00:18","slug":"processing-an-infra-red-image-for-rps-ecircle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8322","title":{"rendered":"Processing an Infra-Red image for RPS eCircle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this year I joined the RPS (Royal Photographic Society) and within this I joined one of their &#8216;eCircles&#8217; which is a small group of people who discuss processing techniques for photographs. Each month a member submits a photograph for the group to work on to show and discuss the methods they use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month I submitted one of my infra-red images for the discussion. I used this as an opportunity to try out different techniques using my image. The results are below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/S22_1848-sepia-and-F21_1936r1-soft-light-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/S22_1848-sepia-and-F21_1936r1-soft-light-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/S22_1848-sepia-and-F21_1936r1-soft-light-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/S22_1848-sepia-and-F21_1936r1-soft-light-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/S22_1848-sepia-and-F21_1936r1-soft-light-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/S22_1848-sepia-and-F21_1936r1-soft-light.jpg 901w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canal view using the first technique<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the above image, I converted the infra-red image to a monochrome sepia tinted view, then blended it with a photo of some mother of pearl to give some texture to the view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the second version I used an &#8216;etching&#8217; technique that I am developing &#8211; this fired up a good discussion of how I achieved the effect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/v3-S22_1848r2v1-from-raw-Lines-20-v1-soft-light-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/v3-S22_1848r2v1-from-raw-Lines-20-v1-soft-light-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/v3-S22_1848r2v1-from-raw-Lines-20-v1-soft-light-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/v3-S22_1848r2v1-from-raw-Lines-20-v1-soft-light-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/v3-S22_1848r2v1-from-raw-Lines-20-v1-soft-light-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/v3-S22_1848r2v1-from-raw-Lines-20-v1-soft-light.jpg 901w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canal view using the etching technique. Note the size and resolution of your screen will affect how well the effect shows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What was fascinating was how others interpreted this view including one who split the view into 2 different scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I joined the RPS (Royal Photographic Society) and within this I joined one of their &#8216;eCircles&#8217; which is a small group of people who discuss processing techniques for photographs. Each month a member submits a photograph for the group to work on to show and discuss the methods they use. Last month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Processing an Infra-Red image for RPS eCircle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,126,3,134,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canal","category-infra-red","category-photography","category-rps","category-staffordshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8326,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions\/8326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}