some infrared shots

[marokero]

Here are a few shots I recently took at Central Park in NYC:

And a few I took in several locations, from Long Island, Los Angeles and Buzios (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil):

Shot with a Nikon D200 converted to infrared by Life Pixel. I used to shoot infrared with an Olympus E-10 and a B+W 092 filter. The exposures used to be so long that I could not shoot moving subjects at all. A converted camera is much better in that respect, but it's still trial and error until you get the exposure just right.

 

[fishinfool]

All I can say is WOW! :thumbsup:

 

[entoptics]

Very nice. What kind of exposure settings are required for those kinds of shots?

 

[biker1]

Very Prit-A.........:thumbsup:

 

[marokero]

Thanks for the comments!

entoptics, the exposures aren't that different from my unmodified D200, just a little longer. I usually shoot in aperture priority, and give it anywhere from +1.7 to +2.7 exposure compensation. Because infrared makes up nearly 50% of the visible light from the sun, summer exposures are usually much shorter than winter ones. I do some portraits with the camera from time to time, but I try to avoid close up shots of people with their eyes open - it gives the eyes a freakish vampire look that is not so attractive for portraits :laughing:. But while it messes up the eyes, it's great for skin: it eliminates a lot of skin blemishes, rendering skin nearly flawless. And infrared seems to not care about race, rendering asian, black, and caucasian skin nearly the same tone.