What is infrared photography?
Photography is also affectionately known as ‘painting with light’. Basically, infrared photography involves painting a scene with infrared – or at least, far red – light that is not visible to the human eye. This quirky way of photographing a scene, person or object yields interesting results – one of the more popular one is the Wood Effect, where foliage glows brilliant white in your infrared photo due to the way they reflect infrared light. An infrared photograph is not a heat map – not even close. We’re onln capturing infrared light of the wavelength between 700 and 900 nanometers. Your camera is manufactured in such a way that it only allows light in the visible wavelength to fall on its sensor, thus making the scene to resemble as closely as to what the human eye perceives. However, the sensors are somewhat sensitive to infrared light too, and this forms the basis of infrared photography. As simple as I can put it, infrared photography involves blocking out almost all light from t
