Anyone played with IR or UV photography?

[skippy]

While I still had my first digital camera, a P & S from another company that will remain nameless (no, not the C word), I came across this page:
http://www.naturfotograf.com/index2.html

He has some outstanding images on the site, along with an article on IR and UV photography that really caught my attention. It's linked on the main page, or here for the unframed version: http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_IR_rev00.html

The surreal qualities of these images really appeals to me, and IR at least is really easy - all you need is a filter and a tripod. UV is a littly more hardcore; I don't much like the idea of grabbing a lens and scrubbing the UV filtering coating off it, let alone attacking the sensor!

I plan on getting a visible light filter to have a play with IR stuff though. Anyone had a go at this? How did it turn out?

[brembo]

I've taken a few IR pics with my A80, results aren't spectacular, and the CCD has a hotspot in the centre.

An example.
That's just taken with the A80 and a Hoya R72 IR Filter.

While looking through the various forums on dpreview, there's some extremely impressive examples of IR photography.

[Greg B]

Here's one werble, converted to BW - the straight out of the camera version is next to it.

IR is excellent fun. There are a couple of threads here where it has been discussed a fair bit if want to search them.

This was taken with the R72 filter.

http://www.pixspot.com/displayimage.php ... 0008&pos=2

[skippy]

D'Oh! my Sony - I didn't even think of using Search.
Probably won't be playing with it for a while, I'll have to give the budget time to bounce back after the latest toy. Wonder how it would turn out on birdlife? The long exposures could be a problem, but at least I won't be wasting film!

[Greg B]

werble, I used the 50mm f1.8, and from memory, may have bumped up the ISO a bit, but you get shutter speeds that you can hand hold.

Could be a problem with bird photography, particularly using a longer (and slower) lens.