Infrared photography is mostly used to create alternative and dreamy landscape pictures during bright days, giving nature specific hues from clear white to vivid yellow or red. But this technique has also a high potential in urban photography too, moreover at night.
I will start with a warning: Digital Infrared Photography is not easy, and this will get technical fast.
Digital cameras usually have infrared filters on the sensor that work to block out almost all of the infrared information reaching it. To shoot infrared photos, photographers often have their camera converted to capture infrared light by removing this filter, but in turn the camera loses its ability to capture "normal" images. If you'd like to dabble with IR photography, there's an easier alternative.
Toronto-based cinematographer Jon Simo created this trippy portrait showing how an infrared camera sees things compared to an ordinary camera.
DigitalGlobe really wants people to get behind their super-high res public imaging satellite, the WorldView-3, and understand just how useful it could be. To that end, they're showing off the satellite's capabilities once again, this time using the onboard infrared sensor to see beneath the smoke of a California forest fire and capture some incredibly detailed images of the inferno.
Not all lenses perform well with infrared. A fantastic lens for normal visible light photography may be terrible for infrared (aka “IR”) photography. Choosing the right lens can be tricky.
VSCO has announced three new infrared filters -- two color and one black and white -- that were originally shared with the VSCO community in early June but are launching publicly today.
Street photography is one of the most appreciated genres in photography. By showing daily life in a new way, it can speak to everyone. That explains why some of the most famous photographers are street photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vivian Maier, Martin Parr, Diane Arbus, or Joel Meyerowitz. They created iconic pictures by finding the right moment to catch the interesting details that no one else could have seen.
A couple of years ago I was shooting Halloween yard scenes in a street photography kind of way when I realized that I wasn't really satisfied with what I was getting. Over the last two decades, Halloween has been transformed into a major U.S. holiday focused on lavish front yard displays that often look boringly the same down street after street.
The human eye is incapable of seeing infrared light, so infrared photography is truly a way to show your audience something they can never see with their own eyes. Here's a guide to getting started with digital infrared photography.
As great as infrared photography can be, for most of us, it’s an enigma that is often difficult to nail down since we’re capturing that which we can’t see with our eyes. However, just because we can’t actually see it, doesn’t mean we can’t teach our brain to visualize what the outcome will be when we snap the shutter.
Here to help us learn how to ‘see’ infrared light is Danish photographer Esben Olesen, who takes a few minutes to walk us through his basic infrared workflow when shooting with his converted DSLR.
DIY camera geeks have a new low-light option with the debut of the Raspberry Pi NoIR, a version of the popular camera module add-on for the single-board-computer that ditches the infrared filter on the image sensor.
The Apple Vision Pro is many things, not the least of which is that it is an incredible piece of technology. Whether people love it or hate it, or most commonly just don't want to spend $3,500 on it, nearly everyone agrees that Apple pulled off some amazing technical achievements with the headset.
Dune: Part II was recently released in theaters, garnering positive reviews from movie-goers and reviewers alike. Over at Kolari, we were hyped to see infrared photography used in one of its most visually stunning movie sequences in recent memory.
British documentary photographer Edward Thompson released an infrared medium-format photography book, The Unseen: An Atlas of Infrared Prints, in 2016 and is showing selected works from the book at the Saatchi Gallery in London until March 3.
Like Paris, where I live, New York is one of the most photographed cities in the world. Creating an original photo series is therefore a major challenge.
Professional sports photographer Carlos Gonzalez has been shooting player portraits for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings for many years for The Star Tribune's annual season preview. Most years, alongside traditional portraits, Gonzalez tries a second camera setup for something experimental and different.
Photography is a costly and challenging hobby. It can be easy to feel the need to defend the choice to become a photographer. However, a new video from Casually Explained goes in a different direction, and instead of defending photography, humorously attacks it at every turn.
The annual World Press Photo Contest has announced the regional winners of its 2023 competition.
Semiconductor company Spectricity has developed a proprietary spectral imaging technology that is capable of greatly improving smartphone cameras by making them smarter and able to capture colors more consistently no matter the lighting condition.
A photographer cut open a floppy disk to use the plastic inside as an infrared filter on his Sony a7 II mirrorless camera.
Financial districts are more known for their buildings than for their parks: from the Financial District of NYC to the City of London, these places are synonyms of concrete, steel, and glass, not parks or flowers.
If you’ve decided to take the next step in your photographic lighting and purchase some studio strobes, then you will need to ask some questions about what kind of images you’ll be creating in the studio and what the best lighting for those particular subjects is.
Astrophotography. We hear the term tossed around a lot these days but what actually is it? The true definition of the word is photography of the nighttime sky. The sky only—at night.
Like most photographers, I love black-and-white infrared images. There is a purity and intensity to a well-crafted monochrome image, and there are many software options out there to help convert an image to black-and-white.
During the summer of 2021, I was invited by a close friend living in Latvia to visit the country for a few days. Totally foreign to the Baltic countries, I was able to discover Latvia through different aspects, from its capital Riga to national parks and forests, passing by a memorial of the Second World War.
VSCO has announced a new set of blue and pink-hued "infrared" filters for its mobile app, specifically for VSCO members. The new filters allow photographers to mimic the look of infrared photography in two additional color spectrums.
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
Torridon, Glencoe, and the Isle of Skye have drawn landscape photographers and artists over the centuries. The highlands of Scotland are extensive and uninterruptedly breathtaking – a Big Country indeed. This is the internationally perceived face of Scotland – a meticulously sculpted land of peaks, glens, lakes, and shorelines. And rain or mist to make or break the scene dependent on your disposition.
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
The world of photography is filled with abbreviations that allow longer words or phrases to be more easily communicated. If you're just starting out as a photographer, however, they could be more confusing than helpful, and this guide was put together just for you.
UV photography has been used by dermatological laboratories since the era of film photography. This technique was then used by the R&D centers to show the protective properties of dermatological and cosmetic products against UV radiation from the Sun.
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
Photographer Maren Klemp's new series "Hidden Light" is a fine art project that melds infrared, landscape, and portraiture to create scenes that appear as windows to a different world.
A photographer who is known for his infrared images has created a surreal body of work that shows the uniquely pink salt fields of France in a way that looks infrared, but instead only uses the natural colors of the area.
For the last years, I have spent every summer traveling across France to discover the diversity of its landscapes and its natural heritage. Usually, summer is synonymous with crowds of vacationers and tourists. For this project, summer is also synonymous with lush nature, in which infrared photography works the best to reveal alternative colors.
Sightron has announced it will release five new Player One Astronomy CMOS sensor astrophotography cameras. The company says its goal is to be the frontrunner in the astronomy observation space using the latest technology to produce astronomical observation equipment.
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
This year, as photographers, we've been challenged to look at more ordinary subjects closer to home in pursuit of continuing our photography. 2020 has pushed us to find creative potential in the more everyday and mundane, perhaps duping us in the process that these subjects are in fact worthy of our attention.
It's not the kind of astrophotography most of us are going to be doing, but NASA just used infrared imaging to make a major discovery: the space agency has detected traces of water in a crater on the sunlit surface of the Moon.