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Foundation Tutorials and Techniques

Infrared photography allows you to produce the most stunning landscapes, figure studies and much more. All digital cameras are capable of shooting infrared or ir. Basically all you need is a tripod and either a very deep red filter or an infrared filter, like the Hoya R-72 filter, which blocks most or all visible light and lets through the infra red. Because modern digital cameras have strong in-built ir blocking filters, your exposure times will be long, often in the 30 seconds range, but rather than being a limitation it can actually be an advantage by allowing you to create very different images where moving objects, such as people, disappear and moving trees turn into lovely shapes.

Shooting Infrared Photography Step By Step

In this tutorial we go step by step through shooting infrared with your normal, unmodified digital camera.

Processing Infrared Photography Step By Step

In this tutorial we go step by step through the processing of infrared images from an unconverted digital camera.

Other Informative Articles

The basics of using digital cameras to shoot infrared shots

All digital cameras can shoot infrared shots with the use of a filter.

How digital infrared works

How is it that you can put an infrared filter on the front of effectively all digital cameras and get an IR image? In this article we set out to examine how this happens and how to interpret the results.

Review of the book Digital Infrared Photography

Digital Infrared With A Converted Camera

Whilst all digital cameras are capable of taking an infrared image if an IR transmitting/visible light blocking filter is used, exposures will be long. Converting a digital camera for IR work solves this and other issues.

The Importance of the Eyepiece Shutter

Lately I have been doing a lot of long exposure photography, both digital infrared and visible light.
In the process of doing this work I have had shots that have been spoilt by flares, fogging and other artifacts. It turns out that these effects were cause because I did not have my eye blocking the viewfinder and had not used the eyepiece blind that most cameras offer.

Other IR Resources

There is a wealth of experience about IR and digital on the Internet. Here are links to the infrared photography sites I find useful.

MaxMax.com has published spectral response curves for a number of cameras. These are useful in understanding how your camera will respond with particular filters.