26 February, 2025
Making Pictures Pop with a Holga and Infrared Film
As you will see, these are not your typical Holga shots. High contrast gives the subjects a sharp and eye-catching look that comes from using a Holga with infrared film.&#...
3 October, 2024
5 Frames with an IR Converted Nikon D300
I became interested in Infrared (IR) photography several years ago and purchased a converted point-and-shoot camera from eBay, finding I really enjoyed the images. The one disad...
5 June, 2024
FOMO – Taking my Favourite Image of the Year
Fear of missing out as a photographer comes in many guises, shall I take colour or black and white film, primes or zooms etc etc. In this case I was planning to shoot a specific...
12 April, 2024
Olympus C2000Z – A new life for an early digital compact
In Eric’s recent article, “Olympus Camedia C2020Z – Vintage Digital/Antique Shop ‘Jankuary’ Find – 2MP from 1999″, about a camera t...
Southern California was supposed to be the first serious use of the converted Nikon D700. I name this post infrared impressions because the resulting images are different from w...
2 May, 2023
Spectral Sensitivity of B&W Film – A Deep Dive into Orthochromatic, Panchromatic and All the Rest
Even if you're new to film photography, you've probably heard about the various types of B&W emulsions which are out there: orthochromatic, panchromatic, infrared and so on. If ...
From very early in my photography I have been fascinated by the unique look and simply luscious tones infrared images can produce. Ansel on steroids. I have only been able to pr...
14 March, 2023
5(+5) Digital-IR Frames from a Roving CoolPix 990 in Paris
Before Kate and I went to Paris in 2010, a good friend visited one of my digital-infrared exhibits and-- the following Christmas-- gave me a Nikon CoolPix 990 that he’d converte...