
2025 Alpha Awards Photo Competition
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Discover a different way of capturing the world through infrared photography. In this creative exploration, Luke Tscharke reveals how photographing beyond the visible light spectrum can transform ordinary scenes into extraordinary images and reinvigorate your photographic passion.
This session covers:
Luke will share his journey into infrared photography, including how it has provided award-winning results such as the International Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2015 and the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Monochrome Category in 2023. Through before-and-after examples, you’ll see how ordinary landscapes transform into dreamlike scenes that create a genuine point of difference in your work.
The presentation concludes with a brief introduction to other invisible light photography, including UV-induced biofluorescence, another fascinating frontier that reveals hidden colours and patterns in natural subjects when excited by ultraviolet light.
Attendees will gain inspiration and practical knowledge to begin exploring this distinctive photographic style that can revitalise creativity and help photographers develop a unique visual voice among today’s crowded photography landscape.
Join Luke’s Editing Masterclass on Sunday to see the complete infrared workflow in action. He’ll demonstrate the specific processing techniques that transform infrared captures into striking final images, including channel swapping, custom white balance adjustments, and creative mono conversions.