Working in Another Light - Mastering Infrared Photography

If you per­formed a Google search on infrared pho­tog­ra­phy, you will more than like­ly see images with high con­trast and very lit­tle tonal vari­a­tion, often tak­en in the sum­mer­time. Whilst there is noth­ing inher­ent­ly wrong with this approach, it should not be regard­ed as the norm as the world of infrared is far more expres­sive and infi­nite­ly more exciting.

This work­shop is designed to go way beyond the reg­u­lar infrared pho­tog­ra­phy. Dur­ing out time togeth­er you will gain an under­stand­ing of how to recog­nise what will make an expres­sive infrared pho­to­graph and learn how dif­fer­ent sub­jects will ren­der tones of infrared. You will also learn how the sub­tlest of vari­a­tions in light can will effect your final pho­to­graph and how to take advan­tage of these as the light changes. The pow­er of infrared on over­cast days and inclement weath­er is some­thing that has to be explored to be believed and many pho­tog­ra­phers are often sur­prised to learn that grad­u­at­ed fil­ters are sel­dom need­ed as infrared con­vert­ed cam­eras can cap­ture all the dra­ma in the skies with­out them. Because we are work­ing with a cam­era that can see light that the human eye can­not, the land­scape before you is com­plete­ly trans­formed. At first this will be a rev­e­la­tion and soon lead to a com­plete­ly new way of see­ing the landscape.

Being out with your cam­era and learn­ing all of the above is only part of this excit­ing jour­ney dur­ing this work­shop; the image edit­ing is the oth­er huge­ly reward­ing aspect. Because of the impor­tance of the ​‘dig­i­tal dark­room’ in the mak­ing of fine infrared images, the last morn­ing of this work­shop will be indoors where we will cov­er every aspect of con­vert­ing the image to true black and white and teas­ing out the sub­tle tones and teach­ing you the art of fine infrared print mak­ing. Each per­son on this work­shop will go home with one of their fin­ished images print­ed on heavy­weight fine art media from their time with us!

Paul Gal­lagher FRPS and Michael Pilk­ing­ton FRPS have pio­neered a new approach to infrared land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy over the past ten years. They nev­er trav­el any­where with­out their infrared con­vert­ed cam­eras and infrared pho­tog­ra­phy has become an inte­gral way they pho­to­graph the land­scapes of the world. They are also the authors of the much acclaimed ebook ​‘In Anoth­er Light’ which show­cas­es their approach to infrared pho­tog­ra­phy. A free copy of this book will be giv­en to each attendee of this work­shop. If you want to expe­ri­ence and learn a whole new aspect of your land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy, then this work­shop is a must.

This is work­shop were we have cho­sen to lim­it the num­ber of atten­dees, and for this rea­son the group will be lim­it­ed to six pho­tog­ra­phers only so plen­ty of one to one time can be spent with every­body. If you want to learn from mas­ters in this field about the pur­suit of infra-red land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy, then this work­shop is for you.