The photo right out of the camera looks incredibly red.

I use Bibble to convert my raw files - during the conversion I set the white balance to “click white”, and select somewhere on the grass or a leaf. The idea is to remove the red tint from the light leaves in the image, but the sky can still have a dark red tint (in fact the red tint is usually desired). I have also seen posts where people suggest setting a custom white balance in camera to a photo with the frame full of grass, however I have not tried this

Continue reading ‘Infrared Workflow’
A quick walk last weekend yielded some wonderful IR photos - I still can’t decide whether I prefer the red of the blue sky though




I got my replacement hot mirror filter, IR-cut glass, from lifepixel.com and following their instructions for a 300D
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Continue reading ‘Converting a Canon 300D to Infrared’
I converted my 300D to Infrared at the weekend. I will write more about the conversion soon, and also about the post processing.






One thing you choose in post processing is the colour of the sky, but even choosing the exposure levels is really hard. I don’t know which exposures I prefer, let alone the blue vs. red sky
Update 10.02.08: More on the conversion here
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