From the course: Infrared Photography: Nature and Landscapes
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Infrared photo gear
From the course: Infrared Photography: Nature and Landscapes
Infrared photo gear
- Before we do our first infrared shoot, it's so important to talk about gear. Constantly I have clients saying how do I get into infrared photography? How do I start? What kind of camera should I use and how do I get it converted? So let's talk a little bit about that. Now, in the course Chasing the Light at Lake Wanaka, I introduced infrared for the first time and I'll tell you ever since that, I've just been addicted. So it's been an incredibly great learning experiment and a very creative time for me and in that process, I dealt with three different types of conversions and I want to really talk about those with you. The first one I want to mention is 850 nanometers and what that means is that's extreme infrared and that's the exact camera I used for that course on Lake Wanaka and it gave me a really deep black and white infrared image. Well since then, I've experimented with two other types of cameras. The first is 720 nanometer and I have that camera here and this camera is a…
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