Photography is picture language. Unlike spoken or written word, it is a form of communication that can be globally understood. Photography can send a thousand words. Thus, it is important that the message is not only comprehensible but also fascinating.
Due to the arrival of digital photography, we can take infrared pictures whenever we please, mixing them with "normal" ones, and see results on the spot, tweaking the settings to our own desires.
Infrared images exhibit a few distinct effects that give them an exotic, antique look. Taking infrared photographs is simple, but there are a few things you should consider. First connect your filter to your camera. Check to see that no light can escape through whatever attachment mechanism you will use. Make sure you turn off the flash on your digital camera. Since very little light will be penetrating the visible light filter, your camera most likely underexpose if it tries to use the flash. Place your camera to its highest ISO rating. Once these precautions have been taken, you're ready to shoot! Take some test photographs to make sure that your set-up works. Bear in mind to try to use your tripod.
If you find the noise in the image that is objectionable, it can be removed quite well with the use of the Neat Image program. It has a wide range of available adjustments. To make the noise more visible, you may also underexpose your pictures by one or two EV, and then stretch the tonal range in postprocessing to recover the shadows and highlights; this will also amplify the noise noticeably. This technique takes less to apply than to describe.
You can also use calibration techniques to reduce noise in digital images. This is interesting, especially after reading the TNG article on astronomy this morning where these ideas are used, it's great to see it described in such detail! Basically, noise in digital cameras isn't as random as may it may seem, and if you have a calibration image with that noise intact, you can subtract the noise from any photo to make it marketable or delicious image.
Yet there is another effect you can try on your photos - the cartoon effect. The examples on Creating LineArt from Photos look good, but they're simple images. Anything with a complex background will probably make it toss a wobbler!
Another breakthrough in photography is AutoStitch. It is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Proficient of stitching full view panoramas without any user input. It is incredibly simple to use. Just select a set of photos and AutoStitch does the rest.
Make your own recursive picture and animation and see for yourself the lusciousness it will tender you!
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