Infrared (IR) photography.. How to?

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Not sure if this is the right forum topic but here it does..

I was reading about IR photography and looked at some pictures and I got interested... bad thing... so I went and purchased a Nikon D70 IR converted 590NM (super-color)

I am still waiting to get it and I got a message from the seller saying that it is preset to P with balance set to grey...

I want to learn the ways I can shot in different modes and I read somewhere about having to invert the white mode or something like that (don't remember well). I have not found good/complete instructions on how to get IR photos, what settings to use and what I need to know for it to work.

Can anyone provide some guidance?

Thanks in advance
 
With an IR-converted camera you can shoot as you would normally.

BUT, it is worth getting the white balance correct in camera if you want to use JPEGs rather than faff around in RAW.
Take a photo of some grass, and then use this as the custom white balance (your camera manual will tell you how to do this).
 
I would also suggest shooting in Raw, the reason being that most IR cameras' firmware will compress JPEG data on the basis of the camera receiving full light bandwidth information of which IR has removed this. Plus Raw will give you more to play with in PP.
 
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