Rad A. Drew Photography: Creating Infrared Images with the iPhone

Sunday, January 8, 2023

Creating Infrared Images with the iPhone

PSA Journal Article

January 2023

Vickery Creek, Roswell, GA
iPhone 13 Pro Max, 720nm IR filter, Camera +2, 30 sec exposure
Processed in Lightroom Mobile

My love of infrared photography goes back to my college days when I used a 1972 Nikkormat FTN film camera. Everything from loading the IR film into the canister, messing with filters, and processing the film was quite an ordeal and my results were pretty hit-and-miss!

In today's digital world, infrared photography has become much more manageable and more accessible.

While I love photographing with my Fuji and Lumix "bigboy" cameras that I've had converted to 720nm and 830nm, my love of the iPhone drove me to explore the possibility of creating infrared with my iPhone cameras.

In my article in this month's (January 2023) issue of PSA Journal, the monthly publication of the Photography Society of America, I share my quest for iPhone infrared and what I've learned is possible.

Read the full PSA article, Creating Infrared Images with the iPhone here.

Many thanks to PSA for publishing my words and images on the pages of the PSA Journal!

You can learn more and see what other photographers are creating on my Facebook group, Open Group! Infrared on the iPhone. You're welcome to join the group or just visit to see what others are doing.

And here's a blog post from 2021 (Making Beloved Infrared Images with Our Beloved iPhones!) that shares a few other details and also features some incredible images created by group members.

Below Coast Guard Lighthouse, Cape Cod
iPhone 12 Pro Max
720nm IR filter, Camera+2, 30 sec exposure

Below are links to several – FREE –

How I Did It!™ tutorials covering various aspects of iPhone IR photography, accessories, and processing. (Did I mention these are FREE?!)

If you're really serious, consider purchasing my 2-hour deep dive video tutorial, How I Did It!™: Create Infrared Photos with Your iPhone ($42.99). In this comprehensive tutorial I discuss various iPhones, camera apps, settings, needed accessories, and guidelines for processing your images with multiple iPhone apps as well as current desktop software.

The images on this page were all created by me with various iPhones over the past few years.

Here are a few more.