16 Remarkable Infrared Photos
Categories: Cool Photos, Featured
Written By: lightstalking
Infrared photography can capture some of the most stark and emotive images possible. Unfortunately it can also look like complete rubbish if done wrong. Along with this selection of infrared photos from the good Creative Commons people of Flickr that we think are pretty cool, are also a few links to further tutorials and resources on infrared photography that you might find useful. Be sure to click through to see what these talented people are photographing and sharing!
Photo by lrargerich.
Photo by Mark Grealish.
Photo by schoeband.
Photo by night86mare.
Photo by Tricky.
Photo by Zach Stern.
Photo by Zach Stern.
Photo by Lee Otis.
Photo by Square Within.
Photo by Carl Jones.
Photo by Lee Otis.
Photo by Compound Eye.
Photo by Hodge.
Photo by Public Energy.
Photo by Zach Stern.
Photo by Joseph Steufer.
If you are suitably impressed and would like to learn a little more about infrared photography, then here are a few infrared photography tutorials to get you started on the road to producing some awesome photos.
Pre and Post Production Infrared Photography Tutorials
Getting Started with Infrared Photography
Tutorial 20 Infrared Photography
Post Production (Photoshop) Infrared Tutorials
Nature Photography Central’s Infrared Post-production Infrared Tutorial
For more tutorials, don’t forget to check out our own list of Special Effects Photography Tutorials as well as others!
June 17th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Fantastic post! Lovely photography.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
From my experience, IR photos are taken by long exposures. So that bird and wave photo (and few others) seems like a semi-IR or rather black and white photos.
Nevertheless, great photos :)
June 17th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
@Ilan – yeah, if you look at the tutorials in the footer, we have a section on using photoshop to get the effect so I am positive that one at least, is a PS job.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:41 am
i love ir photography because of the characteristic ghostly feel caused by the long exposure times.
feature mine :)
http://krippen.deviantart.com/art/arco-41433822
http://krippen.deviantart.com/art/parco-sempione-41393589
June 18th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Hi llan and admin. All of my images on this page (including the bird and wave pictures) were taken with a camera that was specially modified to take infrared images using fast shutter speeds. The camera was modified to remove the internal IR blocking filter found in all modern digital cameras, and replace it with a visible light blocking/IR pass filter. Although I also use photoshop to balance and improve the dynamic range of the images, there is no “IR effect” used here. Thanks for your interest!! Zach
June 18th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Zach – thanks for stopping by and explaining. Great photos and I especially like the one you took of the wave. :)
July 11th, 2009 at 8:57 am
awesome pics … took my first few IR pics a couple weeks back. seanscottphoto.com/ir sooo much fun.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
WOW! Just WOW!
July 19th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
I love love love infrared photography..
Ive personally never dabbled in it.But I truely appreciate it.Maybe one day I’ll test it out..
This is a gorgeous collection and a great example of the medium.