Infrared Photography

This assignment was really cool! My good friend Wendhy was kind enough to share her Nikon with me so that we could both complete the project. The basic idea is to imitate Infrared Film results in which anything green in a photograph will look white and anything blue will appear dark. It looks amazing and you can have a camera converted to do Infrared (there is a hefty fee of course).

Now most camera's are designed to not let in any Infrared light at all so you would have to use a camera that had been converted to achieve this. However, Nikon's design allows for a narrow spectrum of Infrared to be detected if you use an Infrared filter on the lens. The Infrared filter is a DARK red filter. Wendhy found and purchased one and off we went to Floyd Lamb Park to give it a go. You can't see through the filter at all and so we would have to focus the camera, then put the filter on, set the camera to bulb and, just like with night photography, have a long exposure (you need a tripod for this cause there is no human way to hold a camera steady for more than a split second!). Our exposures were between 10 and 20 seconds.

Here are some of our results! I think they were awesome! This first one is what the original shot looked like BEFORE we desaturated it. Even it looks cool!

Wendhy you rock! Thanks for letting me share with you!