Just Got a New Infrared Filter...

[taykuyphotoart]

I just picked up a Hoya 52.. tried it our for the first time at Ohiopyle Falls... Anyone have any recommendations on how to shoot with one of these things!?!

[PLouie]

The result you got seems pretty normal to me. That's usually how it looks like when it comes straight from the camera. You might want to try shooting at different white balances tto make it less red or more red or pink etc depending on what you want.

What IR photos really need is a lot of post processing. If you're using Photoshop, a popular way to do that is to switch the channels. Usually blue with red. You can do it in the Channel Mixer by changing Red in the red output to 0 and raising the blue there to 100% and the same with the Blue output but reversed. You could try other variations as well. Then just make some contrast and other adjustments if you want. A sharpen at the end is sometimes neccesary as well.

There are other ways as well. Check out this link for some other ideas.
http://digitalphotographer.com.ph/fo...ead.php?t=5931

I hope you don't mind but I edited it a little to show you what can be achieved with the simple process I talked about earlier. The only thing different is that I just took out the Green channel and made it blue at 100% so there were two blue channels.

[clockdoc]

One thing I have learned is the importance of white balance. Find a patch of brightly lit green grass for starters. See if that makes a significant change in your end result. What is the wavelength factor of your filter (such as 720, etc)? I look forward to seeing more of your IR work.

[taykuyphotoart]

I was using the 720nm Hoya Filter. I hope to post some things soon, the few others that I have taken came out blurry with makeshifting a tripod... and now... my tripod was broken on the ride home. SIGH

[Richard Britt]

I have been reading up on filters and their uses. The book I got discusses mostly their use with film. It will be interesting to learn as you do. A tripod is a must from what I have read and metering to determine exposure requires some math to get right. On suggestion was to take picture with exposure bracketing.

Please include setting, camera, time of shot, lens, etc with the pictures.