Rob Shea

Rob Shea is an infrared, landscape, and travel photographer who has been shooting infrared since 2017, and the author of Color Doesn’t Exist: A Practical Guide to Infrared Photography. He has created over 125 YouTube videos covering infrared photography, including detailed tutorials, shooting and editing guides, tips, tricks, raw editor reviews, and product reviews. He enjoys shooting infrared landscapes while hiking and traveling, researching the technical challenges of infrared, and sharing what he learns here and on YouTube.

Book

Color Doesn’t Exist: A Practical Guide to Infrared Photography, released in 2022, is a guide for photographers both new to and experienced with infrared photography. It covers infrared light, filters, lenses, camera conversions, focus, diffraction, shooting settings, and editing. It is available in eBook and Audiobook editions; the print edition, released in 2023, is sold out.

Courses and Coaching

Rob’s video courses teach infrared editing step by step, from white balance and color swapping to complete edits:

Lesson subtitles are available in eight languages. He also offers one-on-one infrared photography coaching and hosts live streams where he answers questions and edits viewers’ infrared images.

Tools for Infrared Photographers

He has created multiple tools to simplify the complex editing workflow for color infrared images. The Infrared Profile Pack and Chrome Profile Pack are free collections of camera-specific profiles which allow setting of a good white balance in Adobe and other raw editors. Simplify the color swapping process with Photoshop actions, Lightroom profiles, ON1 Photo RAW presets, darktable presets, and LUTs.

He also built the Infrared Lens Database, which collects infrared hot spot reports for hundreds of lenses, and the Diffraction Calculator, which shows which ƒ-stops produce visible diffraction softness for a given camera and filter.

Talks

He has introduced infrared photography to photo clubs in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, and in the United States including California, New Mexico, Wisconsin, and New Jersey.

Media

TechRadar: I turned my Fujifilm X-T3 into an infrared wonder – and it’s the best photography decision I’ve made in years.
30-August-2025

PC Magazine: This Unusual Photography Technique Led to One of My Best Shots Ever.
17-August-2025

Mathieu Stern: Modifying my Camera to see the World Differently.
24-May-2022

Fstoppers: Shoot and Edit Infrared Photos With Any Camera.
02-December-2021

Contact

Email blog@590.mozmail.com with questions, club talk requests, or press inquiries. Follow along on YouTube, Bluesky, and Instagram.