How To Do INFRARED by Naomi Frost

Oh, thanks for sharing it!!!! Lovely. Also hoping to explore IR one day….

Thank you Naomi..

Thank you so much for sharing this Naomi :-)

absolutely brilliant tutorial Naomi and I must rush out now and buy an IR filter…….well not now because it’s the middle of the night here in Scotland…..lol

Wow! Wonderful tutorial! Thanks for the info, I really appreciate your work! Dee

I have just started shooting in infrared so I really do appreciate you sharing this information!

Thanks Naomi, much appreciated. Looking forward to giving it a go.

Thank you Naomi – wonderfully written – I look forward to giving it a little try one day.

Awesome, thanks so much for sharing this!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Very very helpful…thanks a lot!

A well explained little tutorial Naomi.

thank you this is such a help.

Thanks for the well-presented, thorough tutorial! Your generous effort is much appreciated. Cheers!

Ahhh so thats how its done :-P

Thanks Naomi for this, I must save up my pennies a get a filter!
Great tut, thanks for sharing!!
Cheers Tina :-))

Thanks for sharing :) I’m afraid my Canon is not suitable for IR but I’m keeping my eyes on the subject and hope there will come a moment I’ll start with it too :) The IR pictures are simply so lovely surreal and otherwordly!

There are companies now that will modify your DSLR [or pocket dinky digital] by removing the IR filters. It costs around $400AUS, and effectively resolves all issues with taking digital IR photography. You will still need to use a lens filter [I prefer a Wratten 25A Red filter, personally]. This way the images need little or no post production, and they look properly Infra red.

wow..thank you so much for the tutorial!

This is a great help BUT…do you know how to convert a digital camera to take IR? I’d like to know so I can try it on one of mine. Any info would help!! thanks! Congrats on the publication too! Have you had many articles published? – Jennifer

Will try to keep this info for later use, Thanks for your time and energy and your willingness to share.

I’ve just stumbeled across this… I dont have an IR filter now, but when the time comes, I’ll be sure to refer to this! Thanks for sharing some of your wealth of knowledge and congrats on getting the tutorial published in the magazine.

Thanks Naomi for posting this article but I do have a question in regards to Custom White Balance.
In every article I have read they mention the use of CWB but I have not found an explanation in how to set the CWB correctly,here is my question:
With the 72R filter attached to the lens take a photo of green grass/grey/white card,fine but what now ?
Set the camera on auto exposure ? set it to manual mode ? set it to f5.6,f8.0,f11?
2 sec/4sec/8sec ? what is the correct way ?
I have no problem in loading the CWB into my camera and using it my problem is the above questions………oh yeah and there is no green grass to be found in Victoria at present :)

Thanks Naomi for clearing this up for me I will give it go,these settings are about the same what I normaly use when taking IR………now waiting for some grass to grow :)
Thanks again – Cheers.
Hans.

Thanks for sharing this Naomi, this clears up a couple of little points that were preventing me from getting the results I was after.

This was great..some day I will have Photoshop but way to expensive for me. ;)

Thanks, Naomi…this gives me inspiration to try it!

Naomi i followed your instructions down to the lat dot yet i can not seem to produce a successful false color infrared image. i shoot with a canon 450D (xsi) and an R72 opteka infrared filter. i take a picture of green grass with the filter on and i comes out red. i set it as the CWB and whenever i take a picture it comes out monochrome for some reason. any advice or help you could offer would be greatly apreciated.

Yes, I have the same problem. The original shot comes out red and black. I would appreciate some help.

Thanks for replying, Naomi. No, it’s an R72 like yours (using Canon 40D). I am just learning how to do a custom white balance and hadn’t taken one for the shots I took. Could that be the reason? Need to wait for sunshine before I can try again (the joys of living in Scotland, lol!) I’ll let you know how I get on. I’m so excited about this and I’d so love to be able to achieve the kind of IR effects that you’re getting. Also, I only have PSE 6 and there’s no channel mixer. Would you have to know of a good plugin that gives a result as good as photoshops channel mixer?

Have tried once again after taking a proper white balance from the grass, but my images straight from the camera are red. What aren’t I doing right?

this is sooooooooooooooooooo interesting!!!! One of these days I’m going to take the plunge and try this … thanks so much for this informative tutorial!!! It’s very, very much appreciated!!! I LOVE these kinds of images!!!!!

Thanks heaps for the advice!

naomi very helpful, thanks, i had always believed before that you had to set the cwb with a white piece of paper but alas i will try green grass (leanne!!)

Wow! astounding images and info, thanks so much for sharing! Dee

Thanks for sharing, Naomi! I’ve always been looking for something like this- not only the ‘How’ but the ‘Why’ as well.

Thanks for putting this up Naomi.

Lurchello, for visible-light work we set the WB on something that’s supposed to be neutral (grey, white, etc). For IR work we set the WB on something that we WANT to appear neutral (often grass).

I wrote an article on processing Infrared RAW files (using DNG profiles) that you may find useful. If you get your RAW processing right you can minimise the amount of “twiddling” that’s needed in Photoshop.

Just ordered my first Infrared filter, I’m so excited to try this out.

Thanks for the tutorial.

Thank you SO MUCH for writing this… greatly appreciated!
TW

thank you so much for this.
i’ve looked at all sorts of tutorials on IR and have found them all confusing. this one is brilliant.

Thanks so much for sharing you tutorial.—Rene

Interesting,
Hope To Try Sometime,
Thanks

Hi Naomi, thank you this information. I am trying some IR over the coming weeks so this is much appreciated.
Cheers Crispin

thanku for this

Brilliant! I’ve done lots of IR work in film but wasn’t sure on the process with the DSLR…. thank you for a well written tutorial…. I can’t wait to give it a try….. : ))

Hi Naomi, fantastic notes. i’m thinking of taking IR pictures soon so this will come very handy. I have one question though. I read somewhere that you should shot IR with the filter over your DSLR ‘with the sun behind you’ . Is that true? Cheers….Shane

Thank you sooo much for sharing!!!

Fantastic, Thanks so much for this, helps a lot with tying up the lose ends i had been stuck at, cheers very much, LJ