Master Digital Infrared Photography With Your Nikon Slr Camera

Executive summary about Nikon SLR Camera by Dave Simpson

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The Nikon D70 SLR is ideally suited to Digital Infrared Photography mainly due to the power of its custom settings. I’m going to take a few moments to show you what camera settings I use for my digital infrared photos and hopefully help you get the best results from your Nikon SLR Camera.

Image Type : For digital infrared photography I really prefer to shoot in RAW mode. Although Nikons native  NEF format is so versatile, it just doesn’t come up to the high quality of RAW mode, and any imperfections can always be edited out using Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.

ISO : Good results can be achieved by increasing the ISO setting, but I’ve had the best results when I leave it at 200. I also do a fair amount of post processing in Photo shop , so noise is a problem when working at higher magnifications.

White Balance : In my experience, setting a custom white balance is a key to GOOD Digital Infrared Photography with the Nikon D70. There are a couple of ways to do this :

NUMBER 1: The simplest white balance method using the D70 is to open your menu, use the control button to flip down to the white balance setting, and change it to fluorescent +3. Since for infrared photography you’ll be most likely shooting in bright sunlight with a “red” filter, adding some false color correction in the camera, seems to give your final IR images more “punch.”

NUMBER 2: Another way to adjust white balance for digital infrared photography with the Digital Nikon Camera D70 is to take a photo of green grass at midday in full sun. Now, in your menu, you’ll set the white balance from this photo. So, go to your menu, select white balance, >preset> use photo>select image> use your control dial to navigate to the image of the grass. Now you’re ready to shoot infrared with your Nikon Slr Camera!