NeuroTalk Support Groups - infrared photography

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Originally Posted by zkrp01 (Post 1155864)

I am only familiar w/ SLR old school camera. Can I buy infrared film for it and do Walgreens processing? If you have never been on LSD, it is amazing the similarities to a plasticine world. Thanks, Ken in Texas.

I doubt if Walgreens would know how to develop infrared film or where you could buy it. The pictures I take are pretty flat and take a good bit of sharpening & processing in Photoshop to get the saturation & hues right. Plus I take a lot of pics and end up using only about 10-20%.

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Originally Posted by mrsD (Post 1155865)

These are really interesting. I think they are good enough to show competitively. ;)

I like especially the Mask001 (the woodland stream photo).

I was in a show years ago and there were photos by a chemist from DOW who worked with microcrystalography...he had beautiful colorful photos of various chemical crystals in that show. I had an interesting discussion with his wife.

Thanks. I started posting some of my pics on Deviantart.com under the name slashman48 at a higher resolution that you can download and they can print them out for you too.

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Originally Posted by slashman48 (Post 1151246)

Have been getting into near Infrared Photography to have something to do while dealing with Parkinson's Disease. Here's a pic to show the eerie look infrared has. Had to re-size to fit on here ( was over 12 megabytes) so it lost most of the resolution the original has.

Thanks,
Bob

Bob,
Would you mind explaining how you accomplish this...is it a special camera or film or computer?
Thank you,
Diandra

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Originally Posted by Diandra (Post 1156144)

Bob,
Would you mind explaining how you accomplish this...is it a special camera or film or computer?
Thank you,
Diandra

Sure, Diandra
The camera I use is a Canon Rebel T3 which had the IR blocking glass filter inside the camera removed to let in the full spectrum of light. On a regular DSLR camera they have this filter inside the camera to block both ultraviolet & infrared light. If I take a picture with just this glass filter removed it will have a reddish hue to it. So I also have to put a IR passing filter on my camera lens which blocks a lot of the visible light but lets most of the the infrared light come in. I also have to adjust the white balance too. The picture now comes out like a silver-ish black & white photo. I then have to use Photoshop to bring the colors out more and sharpen because they have a flat dull look to them. I'll have to post a before & after pic of how much color is hidden in the photos. It's a long process but I like when it works right.

Very cool pictures. You're going to need a lot of frames to display them all.

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Originally Posted by Cheryl1818 (Post 1157092)

Very cool pictures. You're going to need a lot of frames to display them all.

Actually I have been saving them on DVD.

infrared before pic1

Here's a pic straight from the camera with on filter installed.

infrared with filter

Here's one with infrared filter "Hoya 25R" on front of lens.

infrared with filter & processed

And here's one after processing in photoshop with sharpening, removing noise,red & blue channels swapped, saturation & contrast adjusted & color channels adjusted.