A Different Light: An Introduction to Infrared Photography
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This article appeared in Issue 15 of CreativePro Magazine.A few years ago, in my quest to find new ways to represent much photographed subjects and loved-to-death locations, I became drawn to infrared photography. The allure of infrared is that you can photograph light that is beyond the visible spectrum. An infrared image looks different—sometimes radically different, sometimes just slightly so. The viewer may not realize what is different, nor understand why it is different, but they will know immediately that something about the image is unusual. In an age when practically everyone has a good camera in their back pocket, and seemingly everything has been photographed and shared on Instagram a thousand times or more, infrared offers a new way of seeing. For me, it was a new frontier (Figures 1–4).
Figure 1. Our eyes can see only a quite narrow wavelength of light between 380 and 700 nanometers. Infrared photography captures the wavelengths between 700 and 1,000 nanometers, usually referred to as “near-infrared.”
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