INTRODUCTION TO COLOR INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY
A Weekend Online Seminar Series with Nevada Wier
Saturday, February 18th - Sunday, February 19th, 2023
Class time in the description
Class Plan:
Three live ZOOM sessions:
Saturday: 1st session is 2 hours; 2nd session is 1 1/2 hours long.
Sunday: 3rd session is 2 hours long.
All sessions will be recorded and made available to view for participants on private video channel at any time. In addition, you will be receiving detailed handouts of the main topics.
Overview:
This series of three seminars is intended for photographers who are interested in discovering the beauty of color infrared photography. These seminars will take place as a weekend intensive, with two sessions on Saturday, February 18th and one on Sunday, February 19th. The content of this weekend intensive is the same as prior seminars.
Infrared photography is a way of creating images with a camera converted to reveal the invisible near-infrared wavelengths falling on your subject and mapping them to tones that humans can perceive – in superior words, visual poetry! Long-time infrared experimenter and specialist Nevada Wier will guide you in the process of studying this technique, as you move beyond your usual methods of photographing and discover a new way of seeing the world. Infrared is not only ideal for creating dreamy, surreal landscapes, but it’s also lovely for portrait and still life photography. You will learn how to visualize a scene in infrared light, achieve optimum white balance, and begin understanding post-processing for faux color images that are ethereal and compelling.
In this series of seminars, Nevada introduces you to the basics of digital infrared photography, geared towards photographers working in RAW, who have working knowledge of Lightroom Classic or Photoshop CC. You do not need to have an infrared camera for this seminar series, in fact this seminar should help you decide what camera and conversion is best for you. However, if you do already have an IR camera, all the better for getting started on your infrared journey!
Session One, Feb 18th
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM CST (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM MST)
Session One is a two-hour overview and orientation to Infrared Photography. The topics include: Choosing a camera and conversion; understanding custom white balance for IR; what lenses to use; understanding exposure for IR; how to work in different lighting and environmental conditions; skin tones, tattoos, and flash with IR.
Session Two, Feb 18th
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CST (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MST)
In Session two (1.5 hours) Nevada will demonstrate how to make a profile using Adobe DNG Profile Editor for your custom white balance to use in Lightroom Classic and/or Photoshop CC, how to create a Develop Preset for importing your images into Lightroom, why you might consider your proprietary RAW processor, basic raw processing and hotspot correction.
session tHree, feb 19th
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST (2:00 PM - 4:00 PM MST)
In Session three (2 hours) Nevada will continue with the demonstrations on: how to swap channels in Photoshop CC; how to create a LUT (Lookup Table) to use in Lightroom and Photoshop ACR to swap channels in RAW processing; the next step in infrared processing and color tinting.
Once you sign up for the seminar series, Nevada will send a letter and pre-seminar information to help you prepare. Handouts will be provided detailing some of the above techniques.
Notes from Nevada:
If you are a black and white photographer you still might find this course informative, but I will not be covering black and white processing.
And, if you consider yourself a beginning photographer then I do not suggest this seminar series. I think it is important to understand the foundation of photography and processing before you start on infrared photography.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Required equipment:
Computer/Tablet (Viewing on a smartphone is not recommended due to the screen size)
Internet Connection
Zoom Account (free subscription level is fine)
*Note - you do not need to yet own an infrared camera to take this course
Maximum class size: Limited to only 25 participants, so that Nevada will be able to address questions and have more of a conversation. Infrared photography tends to invite many questions!