First infrared photo from my converted camera

[Major Nikon]

I finally got my Nikon D5000 back from being converted to IR. My male border collie managed to sit still long enough to take a few test shots. This one really doesn't show the strength of IR, but there are some differences. Eventually when I start taking landscape and architecture shots things should start to get more interesting. One thing I noticed right away was the focus point was off. I focused the camera using the standard autofocus and the focus point was placed on his eyeball and clearly there's a backfocusing problem with this lens as expected. I didn't try using liveview because he was moving around too much, but that should have corrected for the focusing error.

[Solly Mack]

1. Pretty dog.

You and rd have me thinking about getting into infrared.

Love the bokeh.

[Major Nikon]

2. New lens

For decades I used nothing but Nikon lenses. Now with plenty of sites empirically evaluating the quality and character of lenses, it's much easier to choose between OEM and 3rd party these days. This is my 2nd non-Nikon lens. It's a Tamron 17-50/2.8. The optical quality of this lens tested high, was comparable to the Nikon equivalent, and the equivalent Nikon lens would cost over 3.5 times more. Since it covers a focal range I don't use much, it was a no-brainer for me. This is the only time I've used the lens so the jury is still out on how I will like it.

[Solly Mack]

3. Get busy! :) So we can see more.

[rdking647]

4. focus is an issue in IR

especially close up. i find its not so much of an issue with landscapes.
what filter did you end up getting?

[Major Nikon]

5. I went with the 665nm filter

It seemed to make the most sense. I can get pretty much the same results as the 720nm filter very easily via photoshop if I want and I can still get false color IR images.

The one problem I'm having right now is getting the white balance right. They have a procedure on lifepixel's website about setting the white balance in the D5000's menu, but I haven't been able to get it to work successfully. Camera raw in photoshop and lightroom doesn't have enough latitude to do white balance. I have some raw processing software called DXO which is able to successfully white balance, but it's not very consistent because you basically have to select a white area of the image for it to work. I need to figure out how to set up a white balance preset in DXO using a white card, and I think that will work fine.

[rdking647]

6. heres what i did for white balance on my d70

on a bright sunny day at noon i took a shot of a patch of green grass. I used that as a reference image for white balance. after all foliage is white under IR