100 Outstanding and Inspirational Infrared Photos

If a picture is worth a thousand words, some of these shots are worth a thousand pictures.

Incredibly Beautiful

Thanks for sharing.

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

Wow, those are crazy, how are those done? What type of equipment is needed?

wow, great collection. All of those shots are amazing

Some weird but oh so amazing shots!

What a great collection of photography, thanks for sharing !

So cool !Thanks for sharing!

cool photography!! its amazing! Tweeting it.. @Inkfruit!

very cool collection. thanks for sharing!!

It’s a whole different world. Somewhat creepy, but in a good way. Thanks for this post.

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].

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.

Most of the images in this list have been colored in post-processing. Infrared photography is usually monochrome.

wow just wow they are amazing.

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.

That’s in fact amazing. Impossible to pick a favourite!

Wow! How beautiful. I think I want an infrared sensitive camera.

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.

Amazing. Dreamlike and surreal. Love them…

Love it! great compilation, i’m gonna try to take this kind of pics.

Great collaction of images! Now I take my camera and make some photo!!! I wanna try!

This is an area of photography I would love to get into one day. The results are amazing. Thanks for posting.

nice collection, but the most photos was with trees

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!

very cool collection. thanks for sharing!!

Wow! what a collection! Great stuff.

Cool photography!

great picture..

wow..

i am speechless

Wow! thank you Walter
love this post keep it up

I’ve admired these type of prints before. Does anyone know of photographers that offer prints for sale?

just one word for this => COOOL

Nice Pics

very nice

great moments, good quality, nice colors, amazing angle thanks for sharing..

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/

Very nice. Makes me want to get an infrared lens!

Nice photos

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

realmente son hermosos paisajes,relajantes e impresionantes gracias a quien corresponda

Exelentes imagenes felicitaciones

Picture Perfect!!!

Very nice collection.

Very Inspiring. Got me really amazed by the pics.

These shots are so beautiful! very inspiring!

IR photography is so fascinating, teaching us more about the unseen. Here are some other stunning examples of infrared photos http://www.photographymojo.com/2010/12/incredible-and-inspirational-infrared-photos/

Hi
Just came across your site, and love the pictures.
How did you get the color in you photos?
Joanne

WOW! Why use words which a picture paints a thousand of them.