My first ever IR shots.

Messiah Khan

Messiah Khan

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I finally got my Hoya R72 filter yesterday, so ive been out having a play around. Testing it indoors, I was having to use ~2 minute exposures, but when I was out on the moor, I managed to get down to 4seconds at one point. Shows how much IR the sun throws out. Anyway, here are the results;

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The IR effect isn't hugely visible tbh. Im not a big fan of coloured IR, so ive made them B&W, but I really could do with more contrast in the shots for them to work better. Im going to have to try and find some water to include in the shots to get some pure blacks.
 
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Those coloured ones arn't too bad, but I feel its a bit weird for weirdness sake.

Arkanoid said:
I love No 4
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Thank you. Ive actually got that one in colour, B&W and IR. I saw the composition, so I thought, why not. Lets shoot it in every effect possible.
 
Interesting shots. Can you explain how this effect could be replicated? Is it just a filter or is there a lot of PP?
 
Spie said:
Interesting shots. Can you explain how this effect could be replicated? Is it just a filter or is there a lot of PP?
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Its using a Hoya R72 filter. It basically blocks out all visible light, except for a tiny bit at the end of the red spectrum and lets in Infra red light. Its a bit tricky to set up, as the filter is nearly completely black, so when its on you can't see anything through the viewfinder. So you have to set the shot up like normal, compose it and set the focal distance. Then attach the filter,(Also make a custom whitebalance with the filter on) and take the shot. Depending on how sensitive your camera is to IR, exposures vary between several minutes to a few seconds. Tbh, these arn't great examples of what IR can do. Not too bad for my first go, but when done well it can look very impressive; Ink black skies and water with pure white clouds and plants.
 
Pretty good for the first attempts. :)

I prefere the colour versions though. as you say, the B&W highlights are blown out and the shadows are too dark.

Panzer
 
I must say that for someone who's only been into photography for one month, you're doing rather well ;)

I like these. I think no.1 would've bee better if you shot from a much lower angle, and included the entire treee in frame. As it stands, I like 3 & 4.

I wish people would stop posting IR photography. I have no spare cash for a filter, and my purchase button finger is beginning to itch... :p

Actually, scrap that idea. The 20D is gash for IR, especially next to what Nikon cameras are able to achieve. I won't be buying an IR filter then! The in camera IR filter is far too effective, and as it cuts out most of the IR that goes through the lens, the results are not particularly good.

There's no way I'll be tinkering with the internals of my camera as per the numerous guides, either. It does appear that the 10D is pretty stonking for IR photography though.
 
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danza said:
I must say that for someone who's only been into photography for one month, you're doing rather well ;)
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I concur!

These are great for your first efforts. Looks like you found some great subjectd for IR too, nice one :)

The 'usual' processing for the colour IR shots is to swap the red and blue channels, this stops the sky being orange and turns it back to blue again. For the super lazy there is a plug in which does this and applies some levels work too http://www.outdooreyes.com/photo95.php3 You will probably need to do some further levels/curves work to the image tho. Obviously each to their own tho :)
 
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