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B&W Infrared Photography

B&W Infrared Photography

Exploring landscapes and urban landscapes with a modified digital camera that only allows the infrared spectrum to be recorded. Skies become dark, with bright white clouds. Trees and any kind of foliage become ghostly white. Skin tones too become pale. Shaded areas fall into black, sunlit areas pop darkly bright – anything that reflects infrared light appears white or a light grey.

The camera used is a Canon 5D mark II. The conversion was been done by life pixel, adding a Deep B&W infrared filter. They also adjusted the camera for ‘universal lens calibration’ to help with the focusing accuracy of the infrared light.

While the majority of infrared photography embraces natural landscapes, I’m fascinated by how urban landscapes (with people) appear in B&W infrared images.

For more techie info about these photographs, check out the Tangents blog.

3 Comments, Add Your Own

  1. Rufus Abdullah says

    November 18, 2022 at 3:20 am

    Gorgeous images. Had my old D90 converted by lifepixel.

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  2. sv says

    August 22, 2014 at 7:37 pm

    beautiful pictures 🙂 magic in pictures

    Reply
  3. Themi says

    July 27, 2014 at 12:15 pm

    Wow..! This is so beautiful!

    Reply

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