This is the second in a series describing a basic infrared workflow. This section briefly describes the shooting experience with a dedicated IR camera.

To produce an iconic high contrast IR photo, IR photographers seek out scenes with green foliage, blue skies, puffy clouds and lots of sun. These high contrast situations can also fool a camera's metering system. Although the D70sIR has been converted to IR, it's metering system still measures visible light. To insure a properly exposed image do the following: 1) Use matrix metering, 2) Capture maximum image data with RAW instead of JPG files and 3) Exposure bracket at least three images with a .7 to 1 stop
difference. As long as the camera/lens combination has been focus recalibrated for IR, everything else works "almost" normally. Checking exposure with the histogram is "almost" worthless. Viewing images with "Blinkies" is "almost" useful even though everything is red.

By far it is best to preview a "False Color" image instead of red, but that requires a custom white balance. More on that in the third installment.