Infrared at Bentley Wood.

August 8, 2011 Chris

Visited Bentley Wood on Saturday and decided to try some macro shots with my Enhanced Colour Infrared Converted Canon 20D. Sun was out and in the clouds so picking the ones in light was interesting. I also played about with my White Balance setting it to shots taken against sun lit green foliage, white paper and grey card (I had red that for my filter conversion type that white/grey is better than green). I found personally using different ones created interesting results.

I used Canon DPP software to convert the RAW files, and then played about with them in Photoshop for the final colouring and levels.

Here’s my results from the outing.

Infrared Gatekeepr on flowers. Taken on Enhance Colour Infrared Converted Canon 20D with Canon 100mm Macro Lens. ISO 400 F5.6 1/500 Natural Light. Red & Blue Channels swapped.

Infrared Gatekeepr on fern. Taken on Enhance Colour Infrared Converted Canon 20D with Canon 100mm Macro Lens. ISO 400 F8 1/250 Natural Light. Red & Blue Channels swapped & tinted.

Infrared Soldier Beetle. Taken on Enhance Colour Infrared Converted Canon 20D with Canon 100mm Macro Lens. ISO 400 F5.6 1/250 Natural Light.

Infrared Bee on thistle. Taken on Enhance Colour Infrared Converted Canon 20D with Canon 100mm Macro Lens. ISO 400 F5.6 1/640 Natural Light. Red and Blue Channels swapped & tinted.

Infrared Plant bug on thistle — Infrared Rhopalid bug on thistle

Infrared Rhopalid bug on thistle. Taken on Enhance Colour Infrared Converted Canon 20D with Canon 100mm Macro Lens. ISO 400 F5.6 1/500 Natural Light. Tinted.

Infrared mating soldier beetles. Taken on Enhance Colour Infrared Converted Canon 20D with Canon 100mm Macro Lens. ISO 400 F4 1/2000 Natural Light. Black & White Converted

Infrared Gatekeeper. Taken on Enhance Colour Infrared Converted Canon 20D with Canon 100mm Macro Lens. ISO 400 F4 1/250 Natural Light. Red & Blue Channels Swapped.

Infrared hoverfly on flower. Taken on Enhance Colour Infrared Converted Canon 20D with Canon 100mm Macro Lens. ISO 400 F8 1/250 Natural Light. Red & Blue Channels Swapped.