Infrared Photography – Microcosmologist

New Infrared Shooting, March 2015

Microcosmologist — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:03:58 +0000

Happy to report that I’ve finally gotten out and done some more shooting on my Infrared-converted Canon XTi. I don’t use this camera near enough so when we planned a camping trip, I knew this was my chance to get some great captures out in nature, where the IR SLR really shines. Here’s a gallery of my favorites. Some are color-shifted to appear blue instead of red, a few I left red and one is black’n’white. Enjoy:

First Infrared Timelapse Video

Microcosmologist — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 04:11:14 +0000

So I actually made this a long time ago but am just now getting around to posting it. It’s a short video of 4 timelapses that I shot on my infrared-converted Canon XTi. One really important trick which allowed me to do this easily was told to me by the guy who did the conversion for me: take a photo of green leaves or grass, preferrably blurred out. Then use that image as the source for a custom white balance. Now if you take a photo using that custom white balance, it looks exactly as you see in the video! No processing required, no color shifting. Now that is a convenient tip!

First IR Timelapse from Microcosmologist on Vimeo.

There’s also a color night sky timelapse from the T3i in there, shot on the night I proposed to my wife. Obviously pretty special to me! The sky looks really awesome in that IR landscape shot. I want to do some more timelapses like this with moving clouds since the sky shows up so contrasty and dark in IR.

Forests in Infrared

Microcosmologist — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:29:05 +0000

Here’s another infrared shot, taken with the modified Infrared Canon XTi. This time I dumped the color and just went B&W. Normally I like the color, but something about this shot looked good in monochrome, the way all the leaves are super bright.

Lake Sam Rayburn, as seen in Infrared

Microcosmologist — Tue, 07 May 2013 04:18:13 +0000

My lady, taking in the view at a special place…

Probably my favorite shot I’ve taken in infrared so far. I used that trick where you go to channel mixer in photoshop and you swap red to blue (and versa vicea) . One important tidbit with that trick: you don’t need to do it 100%. You can set red to 90% blue and blue to 90% red, which is precisely what I did here.

But technical details aside, it’s the composition I like