Infrared, first attempts
 

Here's a few of my recent explorations with infrared photography:

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...25_FSidF-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...48_9Q9mR-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...14_EpcSf-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...33_fGKwp-M.jpg

I dig it! I think they get better as you go down, because of the increase in contrast. The darker parts really draw the eye in.

WOW! I don't think I've really paid attention to nature shots done in infrared.
Pardon my ignorance, but is this done in the processing or a camera setting?

It's like you're on the moon.

Or maybe have Predator vision.

Nifty.

The second image is my favorite.

Ditto. It's positively magical.

Neither (though processing is required). Digital sensors are very sensitive to infrared light, but in "normal" pictures it affects colors too much, so manufacturers have put filters in front of the sensor to block infrared light from reaching it. So you have 2 options:

- Modify your camera so that the filter is removed and replaced with a IR-only filter (which is what I have - though my allows some visible spectrum light in so I can get the colors in post processing). Downside is that this is tricky/expensive, but on the plus side you get normal exposure times.

- Attaching an IR only filter to the lens of an unmodified camera. The advantage is that this is easier and generally much, much cheaper. Disadvantage is that you will need much longer exposures to compensate for the IR blocking filter inside the camera.

Any camera can be modified to do the first option. To do the second option, certain cameras have weaker filters than others.
Here's a good list with model comparisons

jr-worldwi.de: Photography: Technic

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Thanks. The rest of the pictures that I took today can be found here:

deogopoles : photos : Infrared Medlock Park

Wow.
Those are fantastic.

What are those animals in the second picture?

dogs. A lot of people walk their dogs in this park.

These are fabulous. Really beautiful. I love them.

You have a great eye for composition, dippin. I love the last one.

I love the simple beauty of these shots. The first two are my favorites, nothing short of breath taking.

i dig the first two, but especially the 2nd one.

the soft white fluffy effect of the trees is quite serene

thanks for the comments

I love how pink the world looks.

I especially like shots #2 and #4. I like the little slivers of blue that made it through.

What kind of filter do you use? I'm wondering what the cutoff range is, or if you add in the blue in post-processing?

680nm. The blue comes from a red-clue channel swap in post processing.

I was wondering about that. The filters I was looking at are in the 815nm - 900nm range. All of the blue light should belong gone by then.

Yes... at that point you can't do the so called false color IR.

The last three are pretty cool. Keep it up.

It's all electric hoarfrosted awesome.

These are awesome - at some point a while ago I wanted to do some infrared photography, but never got around to it. Perhaps when I upgrade to a second SLR body, I can modify my old 300D for infrared.

I like these a lot. I know nothing about photography, but the colors in these are beautiful.

Thanks for thinking my thoughts for me. I work better with help. And thanks for sharing dippin.


Less than two hours ago, I found this link along stunning visual photography, and in the tags, it says that they were shot in infrared as well. You should check it out.

Hi-Def Pics - 12 Beautiful Photos of Infrared Trees - My Modern Metropolis

(I'm not sure about these linkings, but an in-thread example... also note, I did not take/create these)

http://media.picfor.me/001755E/Hi-De...leti_large.jpg

http://api.ning.com/files/QhoeYMqWHD.../5989874lg.jpg

those are great.

The reason infrared shots look like those is because objects reflect a completely different amounts of infrared and visible spectrum light.

For those a little more interested in this, the graph below explains it well:

http://surrealcolor.110mb.com/IR_exp...erial_refl.jpg


So, as you can see, leaves and sand reflect a lot more infrared light than visible spectrum light. This will make things that are usually bright, like the sky, darker, while other things will look very bright. The shots I took above would show just the shadows of the trees and a blue sky if taken with a normal camera.

a few more

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...92_qMepz-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...31_3n8ip-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...37_8gr6b-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...22_qDqRh-M.jpg

I can barely express how enamored I am of that merry-go-round shot. Gorgeous.

I love road shots. Thanks for the additions. This is what my world of blue would likely resemble.

Very interesting. I've never really looked into the IR stuff. I like the 2 shots on the road a LOT. Great contrasts.

Wow! Those magical colors really pop. And the scenes are so dreamy and surreal. Beautiful work!

i love these. they look amazing.

A beautiful new way to look at the world. Don't stop sharing.

This is something of a tangent of this topic...

I've been wanting to pick up an IR modified camera for a while now but am unsure what is the best model to do it to. I currently am invested in Nikon so Nikon bodies only... ;)

Well, it depends on what type of IR photography you want to do. There really isn't much of an advantage to using an SLR for this kind of photography. After all, IR shots are generally sun lit landscapes, so a lot of the advantages of the SLRs disappear.

You can get modified point and shoots for a very reasonable price.

Also, if you are invested in nikons, some of their older slrs are very sensitive to IR light, so a d50 with a IR filter for the lens, for example, can work really well.

Back in the day, I played around with IR film. First black and white, then colour slide film. The colour film was a false colour: greens became red, red became yellow etc.
It did strange things with skin tones.
Here a few of my old slides:

I am but a child in the world of photography, but oh how I want to learn!

These are fantastic!

A more recent one:

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/Preten...90_T3UQk-M.jpg