In the “days of film” I would always keep a few film holders in the refrigerator loaded with Kodak High Speed Infrared film. I dismantled my black & white darkroom shortly after Kodak announced that they were discontinuing infrared film in both 35mm and sheet film.

Digital photography makes it easier than ever to produce really nice IR images. Just for fun, I removed the low-pass filter from a D70 and shot a few test images. This is the first shot with my newly modified camera. I’ve always preferred the look of images shot with a dark red filter over images shot with an opaque IR filter. For this image I used a red #91 B+W filter over the nikkor lens.

How about an entire portfolio of architectural photography done exclusively in black & white infrared? That would be fun!

*Note that removing the low-pass filter will void the warranty on your camera!

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