Infrared Conversions Blog

The 2019 Kolari Vision “Life in Another Light” Infrared Photo Contest (the “Contest”) is sponsored by Kolari Vision LLC (“Sponsor”). ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: $1,000 Kolari Vision Gift Card and $1,000 cash prize delivered via Paypal. FOUR (4) FIRST-PLACE PRIZES: 1st-Place Prize Landscape: $1,000 Kolari Vision Gift Card 1st-Place ...

Introduction Luminosity masks are a powerful tool for Infrared photography processing . Based on the light repartition in RGB channels, they allow precise parts of a picture to be selected. Due to the specific way infrared light is recorded by digital camera sensors, luminosity masks are also a powerful tool to process effectively and pr...

The final hurdle to mastering infrared photography is post-processing. Once you figure out how to set custom a white balance for each different infrared filter, the properties of infrared light, and how to best compose your infrared shots with your specific camera model, there is still the business of editing those raw, out-of-camera infr...

As a girl I would linger hours in a fantasy world of faraway galaxies, cloud gazing, enchanted forests, and so on. Growing a bit older I immersed myself in the worlds of books and music, keeping company with words and rhythms. Then at some point in my teens I came upon my father’s old 1960’s Kodak Instamatic camera (I still have it, t...

What are infrared hotspots? If you've ever shot infrared photography, you've probably run into hotspots before, and they probably ruined more than a few of your shots. If you haven't seen them, a hotspot is a bright spot that forms in the center of the image. In general, some lenses form hotspots, while some do not. Hotspots will get mor...

Hi-Fi Welder   Sony NEX-5N, 590nm   Infrared photography is poetic. If you compare poetry to traditional prose, you often have a more simple block of words with a much more complicated meaning embedded within it. Likewise, infrared photography utilizes a simpler color scheme but emits far more concentrated feelings into the sub...

My name is Pierre-Louis Ferrer, I am a 29yo photographer based in Paris. Before that, I studied optical instrumentation and digital sensors in engineering school and worked in the industrial sector for 5 years. Then I decided to start a full-time photographer job one year ago, applying my technical knowledge to photography. Photography...

Introduction Infrared photography is most often used for landscapes due to its interesting effects on vegetation. However, infrared photography also has unique effects for portraits such as white and smooth skin and colored hair. In this article we will see how infrared portrait photography works, from practical shooting to the processin...

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My Life in Infrared   As a child, before knowing what photography was, I saw an infrared cover image on an old Life magazine. I don’t recall the image, but do recall and never forgot the indelible mark it made on my imagination. I was just blown away and that was about the end of it for a while. Fast forward 25 years. ...

Penelope Taylor is a New Jersey-based photographic artist. Her father introduced Penelope to single-lens reflex film cameras in her early teens. In 2003, she began working with digital cameras and later embraced the iPhone (camera) as an artistic tool. Her passion is traveling throughout the United States and Canada to capture her favorit...

Laurie Klein: An Infrared Journey that spans over 40 years. I was 18 when my love affair with infrared photography began. I was a Bio Medical Photography student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I had no idea that  infrared would be one of my greatest passions as a commercial and fine art photographer. I learned how to use in...