My first attempt at using an infrared filter
craig_d
Registered Users Posts: 911 Major grins
In the mail today was the 52mm Hoya R72 infrared filter that I ordered recently from Adorama. Here are my first attempts at using it. The geeky ghost in the second one is me; since it was a ten-second exposure, I thought it would be interesting to just open the shutter manually and then walk into the frame and pose.
I wasn't surprised to find that I couldn't see a thing through the viewfinder, but I actually was surprised that auto-focus worked.
Artistically I don't think there's much to be said for these, but I'm posting them in case anyone experienced in infrared photography might have any comments or suggestions. I pretty much just guessed how to do this and it seems, as far as I can tell, to have worked pretty well.
These were shot on an unmodified Canon 5D Mark II using a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 (Mark I, with distance window).
I wasn't surprised to find that I couldn't see a thing through the viewfinder, but I actually was surprised that auto-focus worked.
Artistically I don't think there's much to be said for these, but I'm posting them in case anyone experienced in infrared photography might have any comments or suggestions. I pretty much just guessed how to do this and it seems, as far as I can tell, to have worked pretty well.
These were shot on an unmodified Canon 5D Mark II using a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 (Mark I, with distance window).
0
Comments
Be very careful about shooting with this filter. IR is extremely habit forming and before you know it you will want a modified camera.