It’s Summer again and (intermittently) sunny outside, and the trees are green ... or snow-white as in this B&W infrared photo. The contrasty tones, and the dark skies with bright foliage are typical of B&W infrared photographs. Last year, in this article on mirrorless cameras and B&W infrared, I mentioned how I had searched for a Fuji camera & lens combination that worked without giving me a central hot-spot. I found the Fuji 14mm f/2.8 lens (B&H / Amazon) worked beautifully on my infra-red converted Fuji X-E2, Read more inside...
B&W infrared photographs have a distinct look - green foliage go white and blue skies go dark. Then there are the unusual tonality when some things are unexpectedly darker or brighter than you expect. This is all part of the adventure of shooting with B&W infrared. The most typical B&W infrared images that you tend to see, are the landscape images with the ghostly white foliage. My own preference is to explore New York with my B&W infrared camera. The imposing cityscapes of NYC, and the random opportunities make it Read more inside...
Opus 40, near Saugerties, NY, is a large open-air environmental art-piece that took 37 years to construct. Sculptor Harvey Fite (1903-1976) created this epically huge sculpture, which is a sprawling series of ramps and platforms, with a central monolith.
Helping with a Fashion photo shoot on the site, I took a few minutes between sets to take photographs of this place, using my infra-red B&W camera - a Canon 5D mark II that has been converted for infra-red by Life Pixel, with an 830nm deep B&W IR filter. The stark beauty of the place Read more inside...
After a long hard winter and a slow warming up to summer (and a busy schedule), I finally squeezed some time to wander around New York City again with an infra-red B&W camera. I tried it out once during winter, but it just didn't work - without the sun and without heat, the images were dull and flat. Nothing there. Infra-red B&W needs bright light and contrast.
Infra-red B&W photography seems dominated by landscapes where the trees and grass turn white, and the skies darker. But what I like about using this camera in Read more inside...
Funny how personal projects often work - there's the initial enthusiasm, and then life and work takes over. Last year I bought a used Canon 5D mark II that had been converted to Infra-Red. I did take it out twice for walkabouts in New York - and posted the initial results. But then the work-load added up, and then a particularly harsh winter where it was just too miserable outside to go exploring in the city - and I never took it out again, until now. With the weather improving now and the sun shining, it was just a good time to go out Read more inside...
The ghostly beautiful infrared B&W landscapes have always drawn me. Something ethereal and other-wordly about them. So I'm not sure why it took me this long to pull the trigger on getting an infrared converted digital camera. But I end up buying a used Canon 5D mark II that had been converted to infrared. The conversion was been done by Life Pixel, adding a Deep B&W infrared (830nm) filter. They also adjusted the camera for 'universal lens calibration' to help with the focusing accuracy of the infrared light.
Today was the first time I Read more inside...
