steve40 Loc: Asheville/Canton, NC, USA

I just wondered out of curiosity, if these images were shot using a B&W setting. That would account for the bad conversion, and the lack of color variations. You need to shoot in normal color with the filter, and do a white balance setting as discussed before.

Having your camera set to B&W, is the same as taking a picture through a dark red filter. Completely undermining the need for an IR filter, and a big waste of money.

ShakyShutter Loc: Arizona

Camera sensors these days are, by design, extremely responsive to infrared. Increasing the IR sensitivity is how the high ISOs are achieved.

The IR info is in image for sure so you cleanest way to achieve that IR look is to use one of the many "film emulsion" plug-in's available for the software you're using.

I'm guessing the IR filter on the front of a modern digital camera lens will simply drive the white balance to an extreme resulting in unwanted / uncontrollable noise in two or more of the color channels. Probably better to shoot RAW and post-process for the desired effect.

tommyest Loc: N. Hollywood, CA

I don't know about Elements. I worked in CS4 and CS5. I used the B&W converter in the RAW converter and then played with in in Photoshop. You just have to play with the file until you get a look that you like.

photocat Loc: Atlanta, Ga

Newer camers are harder to use and they have stronger filter system for all sorts of things, uv, infrared etc.

Older ones can be used for IR when you use the proper blocking cut filter, but the times are long and need a tripod, along with the fact the image is almost impossible to view on the lcd. Which of course is not the best place to view an image, except for the histogram.

Getting an older camera that has been converted or even a newer model that has been converted for IR work allows handhold, and viewing what is in the viewfinder.

Each has a different look depending on the type of sensor, which is more noticable with IR false color than black and white.

robertperry Loc: Sacramento, Ca.

Hey Walt, In elements 8, go to enhance- from the drop down menu, click convert to black and white. On bottom left, click infrared effect. I just took your image and played around with infrared effect, but, couldn't figure out to post it in this question.

Mike Little Loc: Ozark, Missouri

I understand your dilema, I've shot IR film and what I'm seeing be shot with digital doesn't even come close to the colors on film and I don't know if its the way they are mixing colors or they just don't know what the colors actually look like to get the right color on the IR pictures. I've been calling and talking to a lot of people and still don't have a definate anwser yet.

renomike Loc: Reno, Nevada

This is more like they should look in IR, but hard to do on such a small photos.

Mike