Hi all. Hope everything’s right with you all.
We start today with a pretty bamboo infra red shot. I hope you like it. Bamboo is an amazing plant. I always liked it. So flexible so strong. Amazing.
Times since I don’t do infrared photography. It’s funny and results are amazing sometimes. All you need is an IR filter and an infrared sensitive film, or sensor.
Many digital sensors lack anti alias filter for sharper results. Those are so some sensitive to infra red light frequency. There’s also the possibility of completely removing filters from your camera sensor. Some people do it. So, you’d have a black and white fully infrared sensitive sensor. But, you don’t need that: Fujis or Leicas, and probably others, sensors are very sensitive to IR light, more than enough to get interesting results.
I won’t extend here in technical details. Here are some files from a while ago with different processes.
Any black and white digital infrared photograph, unless you have a monochrome camera, comes out such that. Very reddish. Infrared filters have different gradations, but they are in any case dark red.
The most characteristic of infra red photographs are rather white vegetation. It seems foliage absorbs most of infra red frequency. So the result is always highlighted. Somehow post processed here to keep blue in the sky.
Two beautiful infra red landscapes, sepia toned. Infra red skies tend to be endarkened. Nearly black skies are not uncommon. And clouds results can be very effective.
Another beautiful foggy landscape. Here blue tinted. Remember the raw file you get is very reddish. You need to remove colour or find for a result at your like.
Two shots at the forest. I love this last photograph golden result. Notice that infrared filter dramatically reduces light coming into sensor. High ISO and steady hold are nearly a must, … though many times I do it hand held. Not the technique to look for sharpness usually.
A couple of chlorophyl like shots. The last one aiming to catch the wind! It seems chlorophyl has something to do with infra red leaves whiteness…
If properly processed you can even get pretty colours from them! Like in those last two samples.
Well, I hope you like all this.
Enjoy a lot, please
Imagine the " trippy " results from working with bioluminescence ! It would be like the scenes with Dave Bowman going through the monolith in " 2001 : A Space Odyssey ".