Share your monochrome IR shots

Here's an old one from my first IR conversion- a Rebel with a 720nm filter replacement. Shot in Playa del Carmen.

Very nice image!

That‘s an excellent capture - really beautiful and I love the mood! A very interesting lens as well… are you happy with it?

The Rodie 180/5.6 HR is a fantastic lens. Plenty of coverage for movements, virtually diffraction limited at f/8, very sharp wide open.

Thanks - glad to hear that! Do you use it with a T/S adapter then or a bellows on the GFX 50? I use a couple of large format lenses as well (with a t/s bellows) but nothing on the level of the Digaron, I suppose... I'm also completely inexperienced with shooting landscapes, so it will be a while before I'll make any good use of those anyway.

BTW., I took a look at your website and gallery, and just wanted to let you know that I'm very impressed by the beautiful images there and also the variety of concepts and creativity! "This Green Growing Land" may be my favorite series, and I would say that I'm someone who is not often impressed by ICM photography. That's truly exceptional artistic work!

I use it with a Cambo Actus or a Swebo TC-1.

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I'm still in mud season locally so don't have anything current to share. Here's another from the archives with my first IR camera, a 720nm converted Rebel. If memory serves, this is from a graveyard on Isle Mujeres. Post production in LR.

Great images in this thread! Really shows off the IR monochrome technique with lots of effective examples.

The assignment for this month's local camera club was to shoot a 'landscape' image but the exposure had to be 1 second or longer! I knew that my deepest, darkest IR filter, a 950 nm 67mm Neewer filter I got for $6 off eBay, would probably let me shoot at 1s if I stopped down, so inspired by this thread, I decided to shoot a landscape with that filter.

The idea I came up with, which I could do on a bike ride from my house, was to use the high-contrast IR look to make a cemetery look stark and somber. I learned that it's devilishly difficult to try to compose an ultra-wide angle shot with 950 nm IR trying to 'eyeball' the scene... after a while I gave up and walked around looking mostly on the rear screen of the camera. The lighting is just too different from visible light, you can't visualize how the sunlight is going to look in IR.... plus it's not easy to compose ultra-wide anyway.

Here's what I came up with. Canon full-spectrum M200, Laowa Zero-D 9mm f2.8 lens at f8, 1s, ISO 100, tripod:

Cemeteries always seem to work well in IR, I think it's the otherworldliness :)
Here's one of mine you inspired me to share
IR gravestone by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

Nice one Mike! Works very well!

Here is a capture of a dog on the beach. I have found that dogs on the beach make a good subject for IR, especially in the late afternoon light. This shot was taken with a crop camera, 720 nm cutoff.

Another one from the archives on a 720nm conversion. Near Kronau, Germany.

Playa del Carmen, Mexico. 720nm conversion, Lightroom post processing.

Very nice! Well done!

An impromptu performance for volunteers waiting in line for lunch at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. 720nm conversion, LR post-processing. I haven't done a lot of IR portraiture but have some thoughts on a project.

The overcast beach day wasn't stellar for colour IR, but I persevered and found an interesting black and white treatment in the end. Shot with a full spectrum camera and B+W orange (550nm) filter, post-processing in Lightroom.

From my Saturday morning wander. Canon m6, 590nm, SilverEfex Pro 2 for B&W conversion.