Saturday 30 April 2011

The Beauty of Infrared

Infrared is part of the wavelength of light that you don't see but that you feel. It makes you warm or hot.

Digital cameras are very sensitive to infrared. They come with ir blocking filters in front of their ccd's. When the ccd is removed, the camera is almost useless for conventional photography. The resulting tones are usually unnatural looking.

With a little manipulation in Photoshop the same images shot under the right conditions can make for dream like or ethereal images. Skin becomes pasty white. Dark green foliage goes white and dark blue skies become almost black against white clouds. This can be the stuff of dreams.

This photo is from a couple of years ago. I'll be posting more as soon as summer arrives and we get green foliage again.

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