I just borrowed a friend's Nikon D70s. Not a recent model BUT it allows
infrared pictures if combined with the proper infrared filter. My D200
though newer on the market is not equipped for different reasons.
Sometimes to improve stuff you gotta give away something...
I'll do infrared pictures with B/W films soon but in the meantime
I'm playing digital infrared... these below are just quick tests,
worth nothing per se, but good enough to see the effects.
So infrared light, like Xrays, radio waves, microwaves etc, present
wavelengths that the human eye doesn't catch. Luckily in the
case of Xrays! We'd see walking skeletons. Imagine sex then...
Initially infrared (and black'n'white) films were invented for aerial
photography. These films could catch more details through the
haze or mist for instance. Art effect was not in the military
specifications of course. But some artists heard about and here
we go. This is what the world would look like if our eyes were
tuned to infrared wavelength...
these two images for instance: the T-shirt is dark green, the
table is in wood, the foliage behind me is green, I hadn't put
any make-up for that ghost tone...
here the fountain at the Blue Heron. Concrete shows the only normal color
on this shot. The sky was obviously blue, the clouds were plain bright
white. The grass and the foliage just green. LSD effect?
and all the ones below from our garden:
beautiful white leaves, these are indeed a bit
lighter than regular leaves. It look like another world.
I don't master all of it. Here I don't know why the leaves
stayed that dark whereas the sky got its effect.
yellow flowers.
and here similar views of the house. The top one has been played a tiny bit,
2 notches max on one cursor, to suppress the copper tone and though
the sky, the jeep, and the clouds look better, the foliage got a blue tone
instead. We're going for a little photo trip this weekend for more trials, and
I'll also work out more on the computer with the color options and "see"...
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