Introduction to IR
Infrared photography offers some latent potential to obtain original and creatively impressive photographs. I am deliberately saying “latent” as the wavelength of light registered by the chip in a digital camera, eventually by film sensitive to IR light is in the range which the human eye is not able to pick up. Nowadays, when digital photography experiences its unprecedented boom, new possibilities have been opened for taking pictures in the infrared spectrum. The sensors of currently manufactured digital cameras are also able to pick up the light that is not visible with naked eyes – ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR).These kinds of light are utilized for many purposes. One of the well known methods is probably the use of UV light in criminology or in forensic sciences to search for routinely invisible traces as we can see it in some of the popular TV series
