Infrared problems

Sask2005

I bought an IR filter kit and have taken some pics as per the instructions. Please look at the below link and tell me whether this is a correct Infrared image. It was taken on manual setting, 4.69 sec (going for 5 but I got distracted, etc.

If its wrong please tell me what I need to do to get it into a real infrared image.

Thanks Bruce

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzphotopro1/277079301/

Andy

It's fine - have a look here:
http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1111417

Awais Yaqub

nice landscape but too red .
Keep posting

Sask2005

updated image
Thanks Andy

I have followed those steps and placed the original and the processed image here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzphotopro1/sets/72157594340970053/

The photo was taken on a rainy grey day. Other IR photos I have seen show great contrast and detail in the landscape and sky but mine are flat. Why are mine dull and flat and dark?

Andy wrote:

It's fine - have a look here:
http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1111417

Skippy

Sask2005 wrote:

Thanks Andy

I have followed those steps and placed the original and the processed image here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzphotopro1/sets/72157594340970053/

The photo was taken on a rainy grey day. Other IR photos I have seen show great contrast and detail in the landscape and sky but mine are flat. Why are mine dull and flat and dark?

Hi there Sask........ you'll probably find most people have taken their IR's on very sunny days, and fluffly clouds are a real bonus.
You need that Sun to be shining, try it and see the difference.

Also some folks are using modified cameras, those are not restricted with settings, me I'm using a Sony F828, with the R72 and ND8 + ND4 added as well.....keep trying........... Skippy (Australia)

Mr. 2H2O

Bruce,
Water absorbs infrared rays. On a cloudy day and especially on a rainy day, the infrared wavelengths from the sun are absorbed into the clouds and into the water drops. I've done extensive exposure testing of my modified F717 to try and understand the limitations of those elusive, non-visible electromagnetic waves!

Stuff will either absorb, reflect, or pass the IR waves - just like visible wavelengths of light but IR reacts differently.

Mike

Sask2005

Thanks Skippy. I appreciate your comment and may I say I saw Skippy the bush kangeroo in his home when I was a kid, though it may have been the 3rd skippy to be used in the TV show.

Bruce

Skippy wrote:

Hi there Sask........ you'll probably find most people have taken their IR's on very sunny days, and fluffly clouds are a real bonus.
You need that Sun to be shining, try it and see the difference.

Also some folks are using modified cameras, those are not restricted with settings, me I'm using a Sony F828, with the R72 and ND8 + ND4 added as well.....keep trying........... Skippy (Australia)

CavalierPhoto

Hot filter
Bruce,

It may be more a function of the camera itself. Many of the newer digital cameras come with a hot filter that blocks most of the IR light.

I've been taking IR pictures with a modified Nikon D50 that will only take infrared and I haven't had many issues whether it's overcast or bright and sunny and that's without a filter kit.

Chris V.
cavalierphoto.smugmug.com

Sask2005 wrote:

Thanks Skippy. I appreciate your comment and may I say I saw Skippy the bush kangeroo in his home when I was a kid, though it may have been the 3rd skippy to be used in the TV show.

Bruce