Anyone interested in infrared photography?

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When 'ordinary' photography is too normal to be a special interest...

Last edited by 01001011 on 10 Sep 2011, 6:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

that is all certainly cool
do you ever experiment with far-infra-red? that could be cooler still. or how 'bout shooting things in UV light? there is near and far UV which illuminates different things, just as there is near and far infrared which also highlights different things. also interesting, is what things would look like if you photographed them in the submillimeter band of the spectrum, which lies between far infrared and microwaves, 300nm - 1mm.

I'd like to do other spectrum but a camera capable of 'far' IR costs 10000s of USD and a sub-millimeter detector costs 1000000s (and weights tons) .

Thermal images are also very interesting to experiment with and a bit less expensive IMO

What variety of camera would one use for such an activity?

gosh shows ya how untechnical i am. but ever since i saw a PBS nature documentary about how different animals and such see/experience the world, i thought it sure would be neat if humans could borrow another creature's eyes/ears/senses and experience the world the way they do, to be able to see in different bands other than ordinary visible light. snakes have a "pit organ" which is capable of seeing in near-infra-red, to detect the heat energy of hidden prey. bees see in the near-UV range to detect optical emissions of sunlit flowers and the polarization of the sun's rays which they use to navigate with. bats "see" in ultrasonic sound [up to a million cycles per second]. carl sagan said for a living thing to be able to see in micro waves it would have to have eyes the size of wagon wheels. imagine what things would look like for such a creature. a submillimeter detector, if it were designed like a living eye, would be somewhat smaller and lighter than a conventional technological construct.

It is done with ordinary digital camera but (usually) modified, and using filter that only allows infrared light to pass through. See this for more details http://www.luminous-landscape.com/revie ... dslr.shtml

My own gear is a small Sony DC
http://irbuzz.blogspot.com/2007/05/ir-f ... meras.html
with homemade filter similar to this one
http://www.diyphotography.net/take_infr ... _ir_filter

DIY thermal cameras sounds like a fun project. Probably not enough for 'photography', though.

ive never done but i intend to try it. cant wait as well.

i've always loved the effect. these are great images, too.

people come out looking pretty weird in IR--both marmoreal & ethereal. i used to look at a forum of IR photographers a lot (i only take pictures with cheap cameras & regular film, though). it gave me ideas for writing.