TUTORIAL: how to create stunning infrared photos in Lightroom in 15 minutes

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In this week's video I share my standard editing process for black and white infrared images from straight out of camera to the finished product. I use a Hoya R72 720nm filter to filter most visible light, but this creates fairly noisy shot at relatively high ISO. I process my images in DxO Pure Raw2 to create a noiseless RAW file and then process them simply in Lightroom for black and white images (my preference). For false color images, I channel swap in Photoshop using a quick and easy method. There are some drawbacks to shooting IR with a filter that I touch on, but overall this is a quick and easy and relatively inexpensive way to explore IR photography with a typical mirrorless camera set up. Hope you enjoy! Let me know what your approach is. AND if you know how to address the vignetting issue, please reach out!
NOTE: if you do not have a Lightroom infrared temperature profile set up already then please check out Rob Shea's excellent materials for creating one. This is necessary if you want to do colorized IR images; not for black and white. blog.robsheaphotography.com/2...

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8 авг 2024

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@daveo544 Год назад

Nice video, thank you Matthew, much appreciated. Definitely a bit to get the head around, almost like starting over, but exciting at the same time from a creative point of view. Thanks again 🙏

@MatthewRaifman Год назад

Absolutely. It's fun though and it's really nice that the point of entry is just a cheap filter. I've been meaning to do another video of a day out doing infrared. This is good inspiration!

@911TruthFighter Год назад

By the way, I currently live on the road in a nice RV and am doing a photo book on my (9 years) of travel like this. For what that's worth.

@MrBillkaz Год назад

Deep prime is amazing even for my Sony rx10 4

@yuidfbse 6 месяцев назад

I'm so confused. I was under the absolute impression that to shoot IR the first mandatory thing to do is convert the camera itself and remove the built-in IR filter that sits in front of the sensor. Isn't that so? How can the camera see IR just by adding an IR filter screwed-in the front of the lens of then inside there the camera's own IR filter to block all IR light?

@MatthewRaifman 6 месяцев назад

You've got everything right except that the camera's IR filter is not 100%. When we throw the R72 or similar filter on the lens, we are filtering the light spectrum to only 720 nm and higher. Then the camera's built in IR filter lets some of that 720nm or higher light through to the sensor. This is precisely why the same scene will need a much longer exposure and/or higher ISO on an unconverted camera compared to a convert one...because far less light is getting through and we need to expose the scene differently. I'd say you got it! Not confused. Thanks for the question.

@gwillsthewizard Год назад

My hoya on a 35mm samyang creates extremely strong colored vignette. Any idea what's up with that?

@MatthewRaifman Год назад

I’m not sure! Are you correcting the images in post using a profile or noise reduction like DxO?

@MrBillkaz Год назад

Isn’t it addictive?

@FruitofGanEden 2 месяца назад

can this be done on an iphone?

@MatthewRaifman Месяц назад

Excellent question. You should be able to do the edits on an iphone for black and white conversion. Color inversion should be possible with presents but it might be a bit more challenging. You also can use a filter on an iphone or other mobile device using a couple methods. So yeah, I would generally say that you can do it on a phone!