Hi All,
This was posted by Max 2.8 on CS.
Porting it over.


Instruction on how to do Infrared Photography with your Digicam

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Just wanna make this easier for newbie.

1. First, test your digicam. point your TV(or any Infrared) remote controller at your digicam, press the remote(any button), view through your LCD preview or snap a image if you use DSLR. If you can see your remote's bulb lighted(usually in light pink), then your digicam is able to do IR shoot.

2. Buy a Hoya R72 filter that fits your camera lens filter thread, screw on in front of your camera's lens, or in some case, your digicam's adaptor tube.

3. Wait for a sunny day, go to a park or anywhere that have trees(its everywhere lah) with your camera and tripod. Before you start, do a custom white balance for your digicam WITH your R72 filter on. Either on a bright patch of greens or the blue sky, results will differ slightly.

4. After you do your custom WB, set your digicam to custom WB.

5. Attach your camera to your tripod, camera's setting is as per your preference. Shoot to your preferred composition.

6. Go home to your computer after the shoot, load your images to your computer. Open images in Photoshop. Do a auto contrast if your images are underexposed due to the filter. Select Channel Mixer, select Red Channel in Channel Mixer, slide your Red percentage to 0% and Blue to 100%. Now select Blue Channel in Channel Mixer, slide your Blue percentage to 0% and Red to 100%. The basic process is DONE!!!

7.Of course you can still further tweak your colours to your preference.

Just a reminder, IR Photography is an effect, you should always remember to compose your image and have a subject or theme to make your image interesting. DON'T be blinded by the IR effect!

NOW, Go out and START Shooting!!!! ENJOY!

Cheers
Max 2.8

NOTE: Not all lenses can do IR shoot, some lenses will have "hot spot", a yellow or whitish patch in the middle of your image, there's a list of lenses somewhere in this forum, so you'll have to find it.
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INFRA RED (IR) - Looking at the world around in a different light.
Welcome to the world of Infra Red Photography. This forum is created to popularize and introduce Infra Red Photography to more photographers.

I do not wish to make this a long and boring read. So here goes for some insights into what is Infra Red Photography.

Basically, IR photography falls into 2 categories. Film and Digital. I have not shot any Film IR, so I will not be able to give any recommendations. But I do know that you can buy IR film, load it into the SLR and shoot. Different IR films require different exposure timing and aperture setting to set desired results. We welcome anyone who has experience in film IR to shed some light.

Digital IR – You basically need a digital camera, a IR filter and lots of shooting.

There are different IR filters available, some more common ones are:.
Hoya R72, R90
Ilford SFX200 (gelatin)
Cokin P007
Harrison & Harrison 89B
Each giving different results.

Depending on the camera used, different results are achieved, different exposure timings are required.

I use the Nikon D70 and the Nikon CP5700 with the Hoya R72 to shoot IR and I get different results from both cameras. The CP5700 give me monochrome IR but the D70 is able to give me some colours in the results.

Relative short exposure is required in shooting IR with the Nikon. But some other cameras may require longer timings, the Canon 20D is one that requires longer exposures (longer than the Nikon) depending on the aperture used.

Get your inputs/queries here on IR Photography and let’s get this started to share and learn.