100 Outstanding and Inspirational Infrared Photos

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100 Outstanding and Inspirational Infrared Photos
Inspiration, Photography
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Infrared photography produces some of the most amazing photographs on the planet.
In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used within a digital camera is sensitive to infrared lighting, which allows the camera to pick up any light that’s invisible to the human eye.
Objects that are normally bright in visible light look dark, while normally dark objects look especially bright.
In most cases, an infrared filter is used which lets the infrared light to pass through to the camera.
In this article, we’ll take a look at 100 inspirational examples of infrared photography that are sure to both inspire and amaze you.

Do you know of any other good examples that we may have missed? What do you think of infrared photography?

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#1
VIctor Sinclair
June 19th, 2009 at 06:24
If a picture is worth a thousand words, some of these shots are worth a thousand pictures.
Incredibly Beautiful
Thanks for sharing.

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LunaJune
June 19th, 2009 at 06:34
I am speechless..these pictures filled my mind with such beautiful visions, the fun is finding words to describe them to myself wonderful that you for putting this together and sending it to the world

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#3
The Frosty
June 19th, 2009 at 07:31
Wow, those are crazy, how are those done? What type of equipment is needed?

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#4
STL
June 19th, 2009 at 16:25
A SLR (reflex) converted to infrared. As the digital sensors in the modern cameras are natively more sensible to IR than visible light, a IR filter is placed immediately in front of the sensor to allow only the visible light to reach it.
To convert a camera to IR, this filter is replaced by a visible light filter that will reject everything but IR. Depending on the cutoff frequency of the filter (the wavelength where the reduction begins), the picture might contain color or not. This color is said to be false, as it does not reflect in any way the real color of the subject.
Roger Cicala, from lensrentals.com, summarized the process in this article : [http://www.lensrentals.com/news/2009.05.02/introduction-to-ir-photography].

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Tolana
June 19th, 2009 at 16:29
In a film camera, you need special infrared film that only picks up the infrared light. You can point and shoot like regular film, but only infrared light is captured.
In a digital camera, you can use filters that block all (or nearly all) visible light, allowing only infrared light into the camera. The process is different from film for two reasons: 1) not all digital camera sensors can “see” infrared light, and 2) because you have an incredibly dark filter on your lens, you must set up the shot before you put the filter on, and use a long exposure (several seconds) in order to get enough light in the photo.

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Tolana
June 19th, 2009 at 16:31
Most of the images in this list have been colored in post-processing. Infrared photography is usually monochrome.

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#7
Oliver
June 19th, 2009 at 10:12
wow, great collection. All of those shots are amazing

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#8
Callum Chapman
June 19th, 2009 at 10:34
Some weird but oh so amazing shots!

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#9
Adam
June 19th, 2009 at 11:10
What a great collection of photography, thanks for sharing !

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#10
junda
June 19th, 2009 at 12:32
So cool !Thanks for sharing!

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#11
Priyanka
June 19th, 2009 at 14:05
cool photography!! its amazing! Tweeting it.. @Inkfruit!

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#12
Sweet Gunner
June 19th, 2009 at 14:53
very cool collection. thanks for sharing!!

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#13
Eli Penner
June 19th, 2009 at 16:03
It’s a whole different world. Somewhat creepy, but in a good way. Thanks for this post.

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#14
matt
June 19th, 2009 at 17:21
wow just wow they are amazing.

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#15
Adam
June 19th, 2009 at 18:59
As usual you’ve found a tremendous collection of stunning photos… Some of them are beautiful. I don’t even know how to take and infr-red photo, or edit one to be infr-red in Photoshop.

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#16
Daniel
June 19th, 2009 at 19:40
That’s in fact amazing. Impossible to pick a favourite!

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#17
David
June 19th, 2009 at 20:54
Wow! How beautiful. I think I want an infrared sensitive camera.

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#18
Jason
June 19th, 2009 at 21:46
I LOVE IR photography. Currently using http://neil.rustedmetal.com/index.php?showimage=276 as my background.
Some amazing pics in that set. Absolutely amazing.

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#19
Fifine
June 19th, 2009 at 22:14
Amazing. Dreamlike and surreal. Love them…

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#20
Dusan Vlahovic
June 19th, 2009 at 22:16
Love it! great compilation, i’m gonna try to take this kind of pics.

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#21
aledesign.it
June 19th, 2009 at 23:21
Great collaction of images! Now I take my camera and make some photo!!! I wanna try!

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#22
Dean Taplin
June 20th, 2009 at 00:19
This is an area of photography I would love to get into one day. The results are amazing. Thanks for posting.

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#23
erk
June 20th, 2009 at 01:22
nice collection, but the most photos was with trees

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#24
JD
June 20th, 2009 at 05:04
Well, technically and compositionally exceptional photos. But really the majority of the shots were washed out and lacked contrast. I would love to PhotoShop some of those gorgeous images into photos that will not seem passe after viewing 20 or so.
Back in the analog days Infrared was an awesome change to color and b&w, now its moot.
Awesome site!

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Sohbet Muhabbet
June 20th, 2009 at 10:01
very cool collection. thanks for sharing!!

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#26
Igor
June 20th, 2009 at 14:48
Wow! what a collection! Great stuff.

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#27
Albania
June 21st, 2009 at 17:32
Cool photography!

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#28
d1ve2blu3
June 21st, 2009 at 17:37
great picture..
wow..

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#29
Razmig Youssef
June 22nd, 2009 at 08:15
i am speechless

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#30
joel k.
June 22nd, 2009 at 20:37
Wow! thank you Walter
love this post keep it up

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#31
Bob U.
June 22nd, 2009 at 21:46
I’ve admired these type of prints before. Does anyone know of photographers that offer prints for sale?

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#32
Webhosting
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:36
just one word for this => COOOL

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#33
Franz König
June 23rd, 2009 at 16:32
Nice Pics

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أضف موقعك
June 24th, 2009 at 02:36
very nice

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#35
bartcatapult
June 24th, 2009 at 11:42
great moments, good quality, nice colors, amazing angle thanks for sharing..

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#36
Sharon Cooper
July 6th, 2009 at 00:43
Fabulous, some excellent images here, they are really magical,here is another lovely image I found.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/good_day/2875861098/in/set-72157607559840335/

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#37
Chris Grayson - Art Director
August 13th, 2009 at 07:59
Very nice. Makes me want to get an infrared lens!

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#38
Most Interesting Ideas
August 23rd, 2009 at 21:51
Nice photos

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#39
oVan
August 24th, 2009 at 11:18
As a matter of courtesy, a list of linked sites or an email to the photographers would’ve been welcome. This way interested readers could see some more of our photos. But, thanks for including some of my photos

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#40
flor
August 26th, 2009 at 06:15
realmente son hermosos paisajes,relajantes e impresionantes gracias a quien corresponda

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#41
Danny
September 13th, 2009 at 19:06
Exelentes imagenes felicitaciones

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#42
Ezuca
September 26th, 2009 at 05:21
Picture Perfect!!!

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#43
_JonBaxter_
December 18th, 2009 at 12:15
Very nice collection.

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#44
ellaboi
July 1st, 2010 at 22:27
Very Inspiring. Got me really amazed by the pics.

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