[LRflex] Re: Infra red filters, IR photography, advice seeked

  • From: Bille Xavier F. <hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:49:58 +0200

Hi Richard

 

A very interesting site you mention. 

 

But I start to understand that IR and normal Digicam are world apart.

 

Except for ... Steve Barbour and his "Killer" M9 .

 

Have a nice Week end

--------------------------------- 
Xavier F. BILLE 
Maisons-Alfort - France.



 


Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:11:17 -0700
From: ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Infra red filters, IR photography, advice seeked
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx




Update:
   I remembered an important Company for digital IR Photography you might want 
to check into. It's called LifePixel "http://www.lifepixel.com/"; and that's the 
link for their website. The company offers as their main business is the option 
to convert dSLR cameras and Digicams so they shoot quite wonderfully in the 
Infrared Spectrum. There are also interesting links and resources on the site, 
as well, to learn about IR photography. 
   I personally shot a bit back in the day with the late lamented Kodak Hi 
Speed Infrared Film and LOVED it to no end. My dabblings with IR using my G1 
Canon digicam were fantastically fun and quite aesthetically pleasing - but 
megapixel unsatisfying!. If you as a photographer can fluidly operate a digicam 
in a technical sense, the jump to shooting one in IR really isn't as 
'difficult' as one might be led to believe by the verbose and arcane 
explanations needed to explain IR photography and what's happening to generate 
Infrared Images. 
   The phrase "Just Do It!" leaps to mind as the best way to learn how to shoot 
IR, in my opinion. At least if basic photographic technical skills are present 
to step in and support getting usable and aesthetically pleasing images. Also 
experimentation and the carrying over of one's experiences to one's future 
attempts will be rewarded mightily in shooting IR potentially even more than 
ordinary digicam shooting. If you are compentent with RAW file shooting and 
their exploitation in the computer - IR photography can prove even more 
interesting than with standard jpeg shooting. Trust me!
   
Richard



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