“Infrared Photography” by local photographer Bill Coughlin

Photography has been a hobby of Bill’s for over 50 years. He remembers his first camera – a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye that used 620 Roll Film! That camera got him hooked on photography and over the next several decades he used various Canon, Nikon, and Fuji cameras. His first ‘real’ camera was a Canon FTb, full manual exposure of course. Bill is a Wisconsin native and he and his family moved to Pennsylvania in 1983. His first digital camera was the Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 which used a 3.5 inch floppy disk as the recording media! The image resolution was 640x480. With compression the floppy could store between 20 and 40 images!

Bill’s photographic journey includes many different photographic genres including macro, landscapes, portraits, a few weddings, travel, black and white, and infrared. He was introduced to infrared photography when his uncle used Infrared photos to tell the health of crops on his farm. The Infrared Camera could ‘see’ what the naked eye couldn’t see and that inspired Bill to experiment with various infrared filters and post processing techniques. According to Bill there is beauty to be found in unique and surreal infrared images captured with light from beyond the visible light spectrum.
On September 8th Bill will be giving a presentation on Infrared Photography. He will be discussing the light spectrum, options for IR photography, external filters, issues with various lenses, examples of IR photos using different filters, and his infrared photography post processing workflow.

You may also like the following events from Berks Photographic Society:

• Next month, 15th September, 11:00 pm, Mollie Issacs will present “Put More Life In Your Wildlife Photography” in Reading, Pennsylvania

Also check out other Workshops in Reading, Health & Wellness events in Reading, Entertainment events in Reading.