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    First Infrared Timelapse Video


    2014 - 03.30

    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


    2013 - 05.12

    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


    2013 - 05.06

    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

    First IR light for the XTi


    2013 - 03.31

    So it’s nothing too amazing yet, but here is the first alright looking shot from my Canon XTi which was recently modified with the removal of the internal Infrared-block glass that covers the sensor.  I used a 720nm filter to block all visible light.  So nothing but infrared here.  Not really an amazing shot but I’m pleased with how the plants look nice and white.  I need to play with it more and maybe try a timelapse if I can find a cool subject.  But hey, it’s working, neat!!

    I did a relatively mild post processing on it.  Since it was at sunset, it wasn’t a good candidate for the red/blue channel swap like people do to make the sky look blue.  That’s more suited to afternoon images.  I still have a lot to learn when it comes to the subtleties of IR post-processing.  But I’ve started learning and that’s sweet.