Instruction on how to do Infrared Photography with your Digicam

TrailsofLife · 3rd February 2005

Just wanna make this easier for newbie.

1. First, test your digicam. point your TV(or any Infrared) remote controller at your digicam, press the remote(any button), view through your LCD preview or snap a image if you use DSLR. If you can see your remote's bulb lighted(usually in light pink), then your digicam is able to do IR shoot.

2. Buy a Hoya R72 filter that fits your camera lens filter thread, screw on in front of your camera's lens, or in some case, your digicam's adaptor tube.

3. Wait for a sunny day, go to a park or anywhere that have trees(its everywhere lah) with your camera and tripod. Before you start, do a custom white balance for your digicam WITH your R72 filter on. Either on a bright patch of greens or the blue sky, results will differ slightly.

4. After you do your custom WB, set your digicam to custom WB.

5. Attach your camera to your tripod, camera's setting is as per your preference. Shoot to your preferred composition.

6. Go home to your computer after the shoot, load your images to your computer. Open images in Photoshop. Do a auto contrast if your images are underexposed due to the filter. Select Channel Mixer, select Red Channel in Channel Mixer, slide your Red percentage to 0% and Blue to 100%. Now select Blue Channel in Channel Mixer, slide your Blue percentage to 0% and Red to 100%. The basic process is DONE!!!

7.Of course you can still further tweak your colours to your preference.

Just a reminder, IR Photography is an effect, you should always remember to compose your image and have a subject or theme to make your image interesting. DON'T be blinded by the IR effect!

NOW, Go out and START Shooting!!!!

ENJOY!

Cheers

Max 2.8

NOTE: Not all lenses can do IR shoot, some lenses will have "hot spot", a yellow or whitish patch in the middle of your image, there's a list of lenses somewhere in this forum, so you'll have to find it.

TrailsofLife · 3rd February 2005

You can do a search on IR or Infrared in the gallery, there are tonnes of images, that can show you the effect.

As for what is Infrared photography , you can read Adiemus Post Here

3rd February 2005	#1
TrailsofLife Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Singapore Posts: 8,492	Instruction on how to do Infrared Photography with your Digicam Just wanna make this easier for newbie. 1. First, test your digicam. point your TV(or any Infrared) remote controller at your digicam, press the remote(any button), view through your LCD preview or snap a image if you use DSLR. If you can see your remote's bulb lighted(usually in light pink), then your digicam is able to do IR shoot. 2. Buy a Hoya R72 filter that fits your camera lens filter thread, screw on in front of your camera's lens, or in some case, your digicam's adaptor tube. 3. Wait for a sunny day, go to a park or anywhere that have trees(its everywhere lah) with your camera and tripod. Before you start, do a custom white balance for your digicam WITH your R72 filter on. Either on a bright patch of greens or the blue sky, results will differ slightly. 4. After you do your custom WB, set your digicam to custom WB. 5. Attach your camera to your tripod, camera's setting is as per your preference. Shoot to your preferred composition. 6. Go home to your computer after the shoot, load your images to your computer. Open images in Photoshop. Do a auto contrast if your images are underexposed due to the filter. Select Channel Mixer, select Red Channel in Channel Mixer, slide your Red percentage to 0% and Blue to 100%. Now select Blue Channel in Channel Mixer, slide your Blue percentage to 0% and Red to 100%. The basic process is DONE!!! 7.Of course you can still further tweak your colours to your preference. Just a reminder, IR Photography is an effect, you should always remember to compose your image and have a subject or theme to make your image interesting. DON'T be blinded by the IR effect! NOW, Go out and START Shooting!!!! ENJOY! Cheers Max 2.8 NOTE: Not all lenses can do IR shoot, some lenses will have "hot spot", a yellow or whitish patch in the middle of your image, there's a list of lenses somewhere in this forum, so you'll have to find it. __________________ *trailsoflife photographyblog** Last edited by TrailsofLife; 3rd February 2005 at 02:03 PM.

3rd February 2005	#2
TrailsofLife Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Singapore Posts: 8,492	You can do a search on IR or Infrared in the gallery, there are tonnes of images, that can show you the effect. As for what is Infrared photography , you can read Adiemus Post Here __________________ *trailsoflife photographyblog** Last edited by TrailsofLife; 3rd February 2005 at 08:53 PM.