{"id":2698,"date":"2025-04-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:47:59","slug":"my-first-ir-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/my-first-ir-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"My first IR photo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2006, I got curious about infrared photography. It&#8217;s not something many people were doing, especially digitally, but I liked the idea. I had seen film infrared images and wondered what it could give with a digital camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difficulty was that all sensors have anti-infrared filters that made the cameras essentially blind to it (because portraits look weird and fuzzy in infrared, and it can bring blochiness to the skin). To take photos, you needed a filter (e.g. R72), and very long exposures to compensate for the internal filter. With a Canon 350D, that made the operation fairly difficult (hello banding!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve acquired a modified Canon 1200D without the infrared filter that makes it possible to do handheld IR photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_2342_published.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_2342_published-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_2342_published-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_2342_published-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_2342_published-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_2342_published-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_2342_published-1320x880.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_2342_published.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Infrared in the park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>About 10 days later, I took another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_3814_published-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_3814_published-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_3814_published-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_3814_published-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_3814_published-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_3814_published.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Infrared from abandoned house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Canon 350D + Tamron 28-300mm + R72 filter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#Photography #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Infrared #IR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, I got curious about infrared photography. It&#8217;s not something many people were doing, especially digitally, but I liked the idea. I had seen film infrared images and wondered what it could give with a digital camera. The difficulty was that all sensors have anti-infrared filters that made the cameras essentially blind to it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/my-first-ir-photo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My first IR photo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}