Bill Coughlin will present “Infrared Photography”

September 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM: Bill Coughlin will present “Infrared Photography”
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!
With 4 children and 13 grandchildren, he has thousands of family pictures with many prints stored in boxes. His long-term project is to digitally scan all of them and share with his family.
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.
In addition to serving as the Financial Secretary for BPS for the past five years, he is also Chairman of the Community Outreach and Engagement Committee. He coordinates getting volunteer photographers for various events held by non-profit organizations. Bill looks forward to sharing his Infrared Images and IR photographic techniques with you on September 8th.