Near IR Photography.

[Chako]

While I was gone, I decided to take up different pursuits...one being photography. I always wanted to take IR photos but didn't like the pain that IR filters that screwed onto lenses created. I was cruising eBay and noted that I could buy converted cameras. I found this nice looking Canon Rebel 1000 that was converted to 750nm.This was just before the snow fell...and I only had the chance to take a few photos before storing it away for the coming Spring. I thought I would share a few photos taken with it.

Useless shot of the backyard...thinking...hmmm...is this camera going to work? Yes it did. 750nm IR changes green foliage to a frosty white.


Still walking around the house and playing with the new toy...I decided to take a shot of my couch. I wasn't expecting much...but there was a big colour shift.


Shot at a friends house. IR gives interesting results.


What can I say, I was just puttering around with the camera figuring out what sort of results IR photography would give me...and I got this.


So I decided to take the camera outside on a small photo excursion and these are the results I got.








So I am dying to take it out again when the snow is gone.

Here is a photo of my current cameras.



From left to right: Canon G12, Canon Rebel 1000 IR Conversion, Canon EOS 50D, Canon EOS 1 Mark II N.

[Nikos]

Quite interesting indeed. Have you tried grabbing a photo of the military Vic sheaths next to some other leather/nylon sheath? They're supposedly IR reducing but I have no idea what that really means when it comes to sheaths...

[Chako]

Not sure I even have one...I would have to look. I haven't tried the camera on multi-tools yet either.