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Reply With QuoteI have always like how the leaves turn into white/pink-ish color when you shoot IR. Just a question is it harder to shoot since your color change and are the gears supporting it expensive?
Infrared Photography
Like many others, I was pretty indifferent to IR Photography earlier on because I had difficulty accepting a surreal-like dreamy form of photo work.
But after coming into contact with more experienced photographers and learning more about IR photography, but myself and my wife have become converted.
Nowadays, where ever we go, we would have our IR cameras with us.
It is a wonderful experience and made even more exciting by a neccessity to PP one's IR photo.
This gives one the CREATIVE edge in coming out with the final piece of IR work.
As RedDotPhoto forum has just started the IR sub-forum, I would like to take this opportunity to just share a little bit of my humble IR photos.
Here is one which I took right at the infancy of my IR photography journey.
I have always like how the leaves turn into white/pink-ish color when you shoot IR. Just a question is it harder to shoot since your color change and are the gears supporting it expensive?
Hello bolgash.Originally Posted by bolgash
Well, if one uses a modified camera, it is just like shooting a normal picture.
The only difference is when the picture comes out straight from the camera, it is an infrared picture with different colour tones.
Thus not difficult at all.
As mentioned, there is no gears needed to support it.
One can shoot IR in these two ways:
- Buy a screw-on IR filter and shoot with your normal DSLR/or certain P&S cameras, and shoot with the camera on a tripod.
- Modify a camera permanently with a IR filter to replace the original low-pass filter in front of its sensor, and this camera will be able to shoot IR photo with almost normal shutter speed. (This is the more ideal way.)
From what I have heard the screw-on IR filter does not give you true IR photos. Instead it is more of a normal photo + IR colors. Is that true??
No, that is certainly not the case.
A screw-in IR filter will still give real IR photos, exactly like a permanently modified IR camera.
The only difference, and the main difference is, with a screw-on filter, there are a few more steps to take before one can shoot.
One needs to put the camera on a tripod, and to use long exposure (20-30 seconds) in order to achieve a reasonably good IR photo.
To make it easier to understand, allow me to share with you further.
In all our normal digital cameras, there is a IR blocking filter right in front of the sensor.
This is called the Low-Pass filter.
And depending on the model of the camera, the Low Pass filter can block a varying degree of IR rays.
Thus it is well known that newer models of DSLR are not so IR sensitive because their Low Pass filters cut off more IR rays.
In modification of DSLRs to a dedicated IR camera, this Low Pass Filter is removed and replaced with an Infrared filter.
Thus the camera becomes much more sensitive to IR rays and as a result, one can shoot normally with hand-holdable shutter speed on a permanently modified camera.
Not only that, when one looks through the View Finder, one will see a normal scene, and not a totally black scene like the case in a screw-on filter.
Actually a screw on IR filter does not come that cheap.
Thus it makes sense to really consider a permanent modification if one so chooses to go into IR seriously.
Hope this helps.
interesting~ all the while i thought must modifed the camera body. thats why i went to mod my 30D.... now that i know that there is IR filters... kinda regret liao!~ aiyo!
Hahah, I always thought most pple go the filter method and when get hooked, go for the mod method; cos the mod method gives you better shutter timings (with the disadvantage of a one-way ticket).
Very interesting.
Is there a rule or guideline to what one can see or not see? From the 1st image you posted, the sky is blue, leaves are white and it looks really nice.
What is the colour conversation as human eyes can't detect IR anyway and it's basically some conversion from IR onto RGB and if there's a guideline for this.
Sorry gentlemen, just returned home tonight from a trip.
Only just got to see the thread again.
Hello kerpalz.
Hey no regrets at all. You will find the modification a good investment.
Because truly a modified camera, being a dedicated IR machine, makes IR shooting so much more enjoyable!
Agree!
In IR, there is no rules, no boundaries.
If any one tells you that you got to do it this way and that way, and cannot include certain colours or such, then he is essentially restricting your creativity.
Sincerely, in my opinion, IR photography is a surreal form of art.
Of course, there are certain workflow to post processing of IR photos.
But after that, one is free to develop that photo entirely according to what one fancies.
There are IR shooters who want to keep their colours to a minimal.
And there are IR shooters who like to put in more colours to their IR works, which have an intrinsic paucity in colours.
No right or wrong.
Is there any IR filters to recommend? And how much does it cost to remove the low pass filter in my DSLR?
There are quite a few types of IR filters that can be used.
Classical ones are:
It costs slightly less than $200 to have one's camera modified.
- R72
- ELP (Edmund Long Pass)
- Goldie
its rathering interesting. IR pictures give me the JAPAN feel.
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