Lately I have been seeing Infrared shots in the photo places where I hang out. They intrigue me. There is something about the glow of green foliage and the dark sky contrasted with puffy white clouds that I find visually captivating. I am thinking about having one of my cameras retrofitted for IR photography. However the process will cost about 400 dollars - or almost as much as I paid for the camera body. Its a conundrum. There is a method to do this type of work through a filter but it is time consuming and one of the photographers that I particularly admire says his success rate is 1000 to 1. For me, employed more than full time, that is an investment in time that I don't think I can make.
So then I looked into post processing to mimic the infrared look. Not as successful as the real deal but close.
This is a test shot that I worked with, chosen more for the fact that it contains foliage, water and hard scape than for the quality of the photograph. I will be working on some with sky and clouds next and will post my efforts.
June 15th
Here is a post script on the IR front. I found a filter for my point and shoot that may help me to decide what I might want to do to explore this new genre. $45 is a much more reasonable investment right now than $400 dollars.
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