infrared photography
 

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

Hi Bob,

Cool pic,

Dave.

thanks....that is really neat....kind of surreal.
D.

another one
 

Here's another one with switched color channels, layers & masking.

more infrared
 

Here's a more with a more usual infrared look.

more infrared pics
 

Here's a one from La Due Reservoir in northeast Ohio.

another
 

Another one at La Due.

This is my favourite of all so far. I did not realise the Terraforming of Titan had begun and that you had taken pictures there:D

Dave.

Question
 

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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.