Infrared photography can capture some of the starkest and most emotive images possible. Unfortunately, it can also look like complete rubbish if done wrong. Along with this selection of infrared photos, there are also a few links to further tutorials and resources on infrared photography that you might find useful.
We hope you enjoy these remarkable infrared images!
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.
Further Resources:
- Introduction to Infrared Photography
- The Infrared Photography Tutorial: A Guideline for Your Ideal IR Solution
- Digital Infrared Photography Primer
- Processing Digital Infrared Photography
Inspiration:
Further Learning:
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14 Comments
Fantastic post! Lovely photography.
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 🙂
@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.
With an IR converted camera you can take images with short exposures. I have taken photos hand held at 1/1000 second at iso 100. Using Ir filter on non-converted camera require long exposures. See an example at ;
i love ir photography because of the characteristic ghostly feel caused by the long exposure times.
feature mine 🙂
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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
Zach – thanks for stopping by and explaining. Great photos and I especially like the one you took of the wave. 🙂
awesome pics … took my first few IR pics a couple weeks back. seanscottphoto.com/ir sooo much fun.
WOW! Just WOW!
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.
I realy want one of these where can I get themm!!!!!!!!!!!!
Infrared images are my favorite. They have this dream like quality you don’t get with other mediums. Beautiful photography! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful work!
I have this crazy idea of taking nightshots in the milky moonlight, using infrared. The idea being that infrared will enhance the effect of the moonlight. Anyone have any experience on this topic?