first try to do IR photos with nikon D50

ingouk · 4 Sep 2006 at 15:13

hi,

here are my first tries to do some IR stuff with the nikon D50.
they camera was mainly handheld or rested ontop of the car,
as i forgot to take my tripod with me (DOH!!).
the photos are from the shenandoah nation park near washington dc.

ingo

ingouk · 4 Sep 2006 at 19:32

i changed the whitebalance afterwards in phase one's software. then i changed the red and blue channel in photoshop, played with the curves a bit and added some saturation.
going to work on them a bit more to get them a bit sharper.
will post new results later.

ingouk · 4 Sep 2006 at 20:08

yeah, i was inspired by comments in another thread on here about the ir capabilites of the D50. so i just though i need to try that. and the local camera shop had a very good offer on the D50 kit. so i just bought one.

ingouk · 4 Sep 2006 at 23:12

i hope there will be sunshine next weekend, so i can take some IR shots in washington.

ingouk · 5 Sep 2006 at 00:10

pictures are back.

ingouk · 5 Sep 2006 at 02:40

problem was that the lens hasnt got a indicator for the focussing. but i might get another lens with a focussing indicator (meaning it shows how far way u are focussing). and i was doing the post processing on a crap laptop lcd screen.
once i am back to england i am going to redo them on my main pc which hs got a better screen. but i can say that the IR capability of the nikon d50 is far better then the one of the canon 20D or the canon 5D. if i can extend my stay in the US for another week (have to get dell to delay the server shipment a bit) i might get my nikon D50 converted to IR without using a filter infront of the lens, so i can actually see where i point the camera.

ingouk · 5 Sep 2006 at 03:07

my main camera is a canon 5D. the nikon just got one lens (on which i can get the camera calibrated with the IR conversion). the nikon would be only used for IR stuff. with the calibration the camera's AF would work as normal. as for camera ir conversions search on google for nikon IR conversion or canon ir conversion. that should get you some links for how to do it.