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Digital Infrared Photography
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by Cyrill Harnischmacher
Sales Rank: 167875
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List Price: $24.95
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Hardcover: 112 pages
Publisher: Rocky Nook August 28, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933952350
ISBN-13: 978-1933952352
Product Dimensions:
8.4 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
To record the "invisible light " has always been an intriguing and fascinating experiment. The infrared part of the light spectrum is outside the range of what the human eye can see, but with a digital camera, we are able to record only this "invisible light " while blocking the "visible " part. The results are often unusual, yet beautiful, renderings of otherwise fairly common scenes.
Since as far back as the 1960 's artists have experimented with analog infrared photography, as seen on the album covers of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. But as we enter the digital age, new equipment and technology has opened up the exciting world of infrared photography to all.
This compact guide to infrared photography shows the beauty of infrared imagery, but also teaches how to shoot these images with your digital camera. The book provides the basic theoretical background, some information on cameras, filters and equipment, and lots of guidance on how to do infrared photography. This beautifully designed and illustrated book is the perfect companion for the aspiring photographer wanting to explore new photographic territories.
About The Author
Cyrill Harnischmacher is a photographer and designer who lives and works in southern Germany. His first book "lowbudgetshooting" won him the prestigious Fotobuch-award of the German Booksellers Association in 2005. Cyrill is a studio photographer by profession and a nature and infrared photographer by passion.
This is Cyrill's third book in his series of beautiful, accessible, and successful books published by Rocky Nook. Earlier titles include Low Budget Shooting and Closeup Shooting.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The digital photography revolution has changed the approach to all aspects of photography for everyone on the planet. If you're not using digital devices, you're using a smaller and smaller selection of equipment, and if you are, there are many interesting areas now open to you that had high admission prices in the film era. One of those areas is digital infrared photography. Perhaps you've never considered infrared photography. It is the world pictured through infrared "eyes," using wavelengths largely outside of the visual spectrum. It is possible because many CCD and CMOS sensors used in today's digital cameras are sensitive to these wavelengths that are invisible to the human retina. It is especially appealing to those interested in still life pictures, in landscape photography, and to those who love to play and hone their skills in the digital darkroom. Infrared imaging has great importance in astrophotography as shown in the images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, our prime astral infrared imager. This book by Cyrill Harnishchmacher is a great introduction. In simple, flawlessly translated text, the book briefly touches on the physics of infrared light, the equipment necessary to begin experimenting in the medium, then spends the rest of the book on the practical steps necessary to make stunning infrared images. Space is given to lighting, different filters and their influence on the final product, composition and shot selection. A variety of subjects of covered, including tabletop, still life, infrared lightbrush (using a flashlight to illuminate the subject), macro photography, and using a "dark" flash. The last third of the book covers the digital darkroom. Using Photoshop as the demo system, it goes through several methods of converting infrared photos to black and white. It includes a primer on optimizing photos with layers in Photoshop, and using Channel Mixer to add subtle coloring to infrared pictures, many of which in their original state appears to be photo negatives due to green colors in the visible spectrum being rendered as white. There are many beautiful images throughout the book, they're included in depictions of photographic techniques and in demonstrating the effects of darkroom special effects. This is a beautiful introduction to digital infrared imaging and its enhancement in the digital darkroom. Highly recommended
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Digital Infrared Photography
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