Tag Archives: black  Convert Your DSLR to Infrared Convert Your DSLR to Infrared Ever thought of shooting infrared images with your DSLR? Well it’s very possible and easily achieved. First of all it’s important to know that some DLSR cameras will “see” infrared light right out of the box. Most, however do not, but there’s a way to… 
Like everything else that you do, I love it! Ken 
Thanks for the kind words Ken. Well, I was thinking I’d be shooting wide because of the bridge support wires etc., so my 17-35mm was on my camera and ready. I saw this guy a little ways down and I knew the wide lens would make the bridge way too small in the background, So I threw off my backpack, while I instructed my boys to watch my back, and I quickly switched to my 70-200mm lens. With that lens I was able to compress the background and pull it into the scene. I got three shots off before he was too close for the composition. I still can’t imagine how he could feel cold or need all those coverings on a 100° day???  Aluminum Can Pinhole Camera Aluminum Can Pinhole Camera It’s time to go retro and set aside all the digitalness, at least for this very cool experiment. I stumbled on an interesting idea and challenge – make a six month time exposure with a pinhole camera. Yes, you read that correctly. No typo here, sixxxxx months…. 
This is SUPER cool! Reading this makes me realize that it’s the underlying mechanics of how photos are actually captured using light that I don’t know nearly enough about. I can’t wait to see the 6 month exposure! [Reply] 
This caught the attention of my boys. How fun! I hope you get some great shots with it. [Reply]
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wow.. i wanna try looks great….
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Love your site and photos, Ken.
I’ve looked at having a camera converted for IR, but have waffled on taking the plunge so far. My dilemma is this: I upgraded from a Canon 20D to a 7D for the higher resolution, and I’ve considered having the 20D converted. I’m just wondering whether I might be disappointed with the lower resolution if I convert the 20D to IR. Any thoughts?
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I’ve looked at having a camera converted for a while, but haven’t taken the plunge yet. I have an old Canon 20D that I replaced with a 7D; do you think the lower resolution of the 20D would be an issue if converted to iR?
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The resolution will not effect the IR aspect, it will simply be whatever res the camera is. It will work fine, in other words.
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Hi Kent,
Had my old Pentax DS converted last year. Gave it a whole new lease of life.
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Hi Kent, I was surfing the net looking for Black and White Infrared photography and found your vid on UTUbe. I was soooo happy
)). I love infrared!!!!!. I do have a Nikon D70 that was converted with 665nm. I would love to do the black and white photography but not sure how. The funny thing is that I do have infrared color pictures that I did a while back, but with my moms passing I stopped all together and now I can’t seem to remember how.
Do you have any tutorials on the processing techniques?
I signed up for the composition class and looking forward to that. Well, I can go on but I’m afraid I’ll bore you. Thanks
Norma
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Thank you so much for signing up. I don’t currently have any tutorials on this processing technique, but I will consider this.
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Love my Nikon D100 converted by LifePixel a few years back.
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Kent, I love your B&W infrared shots. Pray tell, what camera model did you have converted to IR and what strength of conversion (715nm or 830nm)?
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I have a Nikon D300 converted and it was done with their standard IR filter, not sure of the nm.
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Kent, Today I received my D50 full-spectrum conversion from Lifepixel (I dropped your name when asked who referred me). So far, so good. I’m excited about shooting in spectral bands, interested in seeing outside of human range of sensing and do some interesting art, too.
Late in the afternoon, I took the full-spectrum conversion out without any filters. Snapped a picture of the house, the background sky was quite washed out, but I noticed the reflection of sky in the windows was quite blue. Maybe the reflection is polarized or otherwise filters UV and IR? I’ll be testing some filters, including a polarizer (B+W 403, Hoya UV&IR cut, Hoya UV(0)and a cheap set of 4 IR filters, 720nm, 760, 850 and 950nm. I also learned to buy the filters for the largest lens and use adapter rings on smaller lenses!
I notice the forensic market seems to be chasing up the price of UV band-pass filters. I suspect that many of those UV band-pass filters might come back to the market at bargain prices in some places. I think I’ll wait to see if CSI goes out of style.
Otherwise I went for the full-spectrum conversion so I could compare visual and infrared bands.
I forget how I stumbled on to your website, maybe bad weather that day? But I’m glad I did. The Lifepixel website also has good information about which cameras and lenses work best. Most users will go for the simplicity of the IR conversion, the lens will be calibrated for IR. The “live view” cameras are appealing. I’ll have an AF-S 18-70DX on my revitalized D50, that lens handles IR focus linearly and can be had, used, for a reasonable price. IR light does not focus where visable light does, so a lens that responds linearly to IR will make focus compensation much easier.
Can I plug the free, open-source GIMP image processing software? Has a plugin for raw files called UFraw, works well. Have to be a bit of a computer jockey to get it going, but has many and growing editing components. I have to do some HDR post-processing. I wonder what happens if I put an IR image in the HDR mix? I’ll let you know if I get anything interesting out of that.
Kent, thanks for being there! Ken
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Hey Ken,
Glad to hear you’ve made a conversion. Be sure to shoot living foliage in sunlight, you will really see result then. You may need to underexpose a bit to save the highlights. Good luck and have fun!
Kent
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Hi Ken,
I had my Nikon D90 converted to IR.
My photo sky comes out color orange instead of blue sky.
Is there something wrong with the conversation or post processing still require for the blue sky to come out? Please advise.
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You’re basically capturing the tonal range and not the color spectrum. There is a technique to make a faux blue sky from an IR capture. Refer to the LifePixel website for details.
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Here’s another page on getting blue sky from IR:
http://photivo.org/photivo/tutorials/infrared
Channel mixer in GIMP, Photoshop or Photivo. Swap the red and blue channels.
IR is invisible to us, so all all colors are false colors. Use photo editor to apply colors.
I got some much over-exposed IR through R-72 and D50. Yes, may need to adjust exposure. Cameras meter in visible light, so exposure adjustment for IR is expected.
The LifePixel quick start guide has lots of good information: http://www.lifepixel.com/quick-start-guide
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Ken,
Thanks so much for adding this information. I will try this out and I hope other viewers will too.
Thanks again,
Kent
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Hi Kent,
Currently i am interested in ir photography and after looking at your photos i am even more inspired. I have a 5d mark iii and i do not want to convert this camera because i need to use for other purposes. I was wondering what is the difference using a hoya r72 in front of lens for my 5dmarkiii compared to a camera with ir converted? which results will be better for ir photography? and can any camera be converted? Thanks for your advices
Warm regards
Brian
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Brian,
You might want to think about getting a camera off Ebay and doing the conversion. Check out this blog post for more details >>> http://kentweakley.com/blog/photo-tip-camera-infrared/
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[...] Consider converting an older model camera, one you don’t use as much. Don’t have one of those lying around? Search eBay for the hot digital camera model from a couple years ago and have that converted. The company I’ve used to do my conversions is Life Pixel in Washington state and they’ve done a great job on my dedicated infrared cameras. [...]
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