Jul 8, 2004, 22:19
Last year, with our cheap digital camera, after seeing some websites about this, I wanted to try infrared photography, just for the fun of it.
The camera I had used did not allow for any filter attachments, so I had some pieces of exposed developed film and bluetacked them together so you couldn't see through. Then blue-tacked it to the front of the lens.
It gave an interesting effect, the skies would come out black and trees white (once I removed the colour caused by the dye of the film)
It was a fun interesting effect.
However, after I bought my Canon 300D, I decided to get a proper filter for this, so I bought a Hoya R72, but was disappointed to find that there is a filter on the CMOS sensor which blocks out the IR light, so couldn't take pictures, but I can still hold the filter infront of other people's camera to show off what their camera could do
haha! Actually, I'm amazed by it
To check if your camera can pick-up infrared light, look through the LCD screen on the camera or take a picture while pressing buttons of a remote control faceing the camera - you should be able to see light coming from it! I rarely carry a remote control around with me, so I usually use my mobile phone's infrared to test.
Here's some attempts I did last year using pieces of film.
![[Image: treeoutside02(Small).JPG]](http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/~loha03/treeoutside02(Small).JPG)
This is the tree outside my house.
![[Image: IRtreedye.jpg]](http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/~loha03/IRtreedye.jpg)
This is a tree at curtin I shot after church. I didn't remove the colour.
Does anyone here take nearIR pictures?
The camera I had used did not allow for any filter attachments, so I had some pieces of exposed developed film and bluetacked them together so you couldn't see through. Then blue-tacked it to the front of the lens.
It gave an interesting effect, the skies would come out black and trees white (once I removed the colour caused by the dye of the film)
It was a fun interesting effect.
However, after I bought my Canon 300D, I decided to get a proper filter for this, so I bought a Hoya R72, but was disappointed to find that there is a filter on the CMOS sensor which blocks out the IR light, so couldn't take pictures, but I can still hold the filter infront of other people's camera to show off what their camera could do
haha! Actually, I'm amazed by it To check if your camera can pick-up infrared light, look through the LCD screen on the camera or take a picture while pressing buttons of a remote control faceing the camera - you should be able to see light coming from it! I rarely carry a remote control around with me, so I usually use my mobile phone's infrared to test.
Here's some attempts I did last year using pieces of film.
This is the tree outside my house.
This is a tree at curtin I shot after church. I didn't remove the colour.
Does anyone here take nearIR pictures?
