Infrared photography: capturing Scotland's Japanese Gardens in black and white 

Thanks Helen! It is a lovely garden, this was only my second visit, i really should go more often!

Thanks mate!

Its lovely! Worth a visit if you're in the area

Thanks James! Hope to have an announcement about the book in the next Newsletter! :)

Thanks Andy! Hope you got some great shots!

Its lovely Douglas. Well worth a visit!

Haha thanks! Aye get the camera charged and get out there! I'll keep an eye out for the video!

Thanks Peter! Great wavelength the 720nm, I use that quite often too

Thank you!

Thanks Malcolm. Yeh, I'd shot it in colour before too. Thought I'd use the IR camera for a change as I hadn't used it for a few months!

I pretty much process them as I would a black & white image. The RAW file has a strong colour tint but I remove that using a combination of temperature control and saturation, then the rest of the processing is just the same as you would do for a visible light B&W image.

thanks Jacqueline!

Great stuff! Depending on the conversion you might still need some filters.

Thanks Sandy! The camera I use has been modified (both the IR and UV filters have been removed) so it shoots "full spectrum" - everything from IR through visible to UV. I place filters on the lens to limit the light to just a narrow band. In this video I was using a 910nm which is quite far into the IR, so the images are only really suitable for black & white conversion but you can use filters closer to visible light and these can be rendered in "false colour". I made a video about false-colour IR photography (with editing tips) here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZYM3slHsmOA.html

Thanks David. The lens i was using does have a IR hotspot which is a lot more noticeable at shorter wavelengths (around 720nm and 800nm in particular) but its not too bad at 860nm and above. I can usually remove it by applying a radial contrast filter to the raw file

Thanks! Yeh its been converted. Both the IR and UV filters have been removed so i have to use a filter to restrict the light. On this video i used a 950nm IR filter but i've got 3 or 4 others so can vary the wavelengths for different effects. Still to buy a UV pass filter to try UV photography. The short video clips of the scenes in IR are pretty much what i was seeing when i was shooting

That’s great John, really appreciate you getting back to me. Thanks again.😊

Ah, yeh, I see that on the website. I think that's a conversion price, so you supply the body and they do the conversion to whichever spec you select on the page. I'm sure if you contact them they'll refund, or suggest an alternative. I found them to be really helpful

Thanks Alex. I use both wavelengths but I find the black and white conversion is easier for files shot at 950nm. Both give great results though! (I also have 680nm, 760nm and 850nm filters and they all give different results.)

Hi Jacqueline. I bought mine already converted. There's a company down on the Isle of Wight (web site: www.infraredcameraconversions.co.uk/) they do conversions or you can buy an already converted camera from them. If you go to the website, select shop then all the options are there. I think I bought mine for around £200 a few years ago.

Yeh I try to use it very rarely as the images can become a bit "samey". Last time i used the IR camera was in Japan in December so i figured it was due an outting!

@@JohnMcKennaPhotography Although IRs been around a long time it mainly reminds me of late 80's lith printing, that was very popular at the time.

Aye i was at an exhibition the other day and there were some lith prints on display and i commented that they looked like IR shots. I'd never really noticed that before.

Hi Jacqui. Sounds like they are expecting you to supply them with a camera body which they will convert? Was the item you ordered listed as a converted camera? I've had a look on their website and the already converted cameras are listed under shop>already converted cameras Is this what you ordered?

Glad you got it sorted.