Overview: Infrared photography captures images in a part of the light spectrum invisible to the human eye.
This workshop introduces you to shooting infrared images using film or digital with your existing camera equipment
Topics covered include:
" What is infrared and why is it interesting
" How digital cameras work with infrared
" Film and infrared
" Converted vs normal digital cameras for infrared
" Filters
" Subject matter and how it responds
" Shooting practices
" Photoshop handling of infrared images
" BW infrared vs. colour
" Printing and presentation
It covers shooting techniques and limitations in camera and lens equipment that can impact on your infrared shooting.
At the end of this day you will know what you can do with the gear you have, how to shoot and how to handle the resulting
images.
Background: Radiation outside the visible spectrum was discovered in 1800 by Sir William Hershel.
The infrared spectrum is from 700nm to 1200nm know as NIR (near infrared). The 1st infrared films were made in 1930.
About Wayne: Wayne J. Cosshall has been a photographer since he was 14, getting his first camera to connect to the
telescopes he was mad about. Thus his first pictures were of the stars and he has gradually come down to earth.
He is the publisher of Digital ImageMaker International (www.dimagemaker.com), the most popular Australian photography
online magazine. Wayne has been a teacher, educator and communicator all his adult life, including many years in
computer science and also taught (and consulted) at a number of small, private tertiary educational institutions, teaching
photography, Photoshop, digital art and web design. He created his first computer graphics image in 1979, built his first computer in 1980
and constructed his first digital camera in 1986. Wayne has written for and/or edited most of the Australian photography and
graphic design magazines, and written for several of the major US ones. Wayne's personal art work is strongly photomedia
based and is currently an even mix of infrared and visible light work, some printed unmanipulated and some extensively
worked in Photoshop.
