5 February 2008

Seeing Your Images In Infrared

Digital infrared photography is all about using invisible light to produce an image - oops, sorry ... that's not actually correct ... infrared photography is all about capturing invisible wave-lengths of infrared radiation - capturing visible light images on a digital sensor but with the addition of the unseen IR light.

Seeing your images in infrared is quite different, not to mention, dramatic, as opposed to viewing visible light scenes - what you think might look absolutely brilliant early morning or perhaps late evening, might look drab if taken at the same time using a digital infrared camera.

I personally like noon on bright sunny days, a river or lake in the foreground, some trees nearby and a bright blue sky with the odd cloud - now that's dramatic ... the water appears near black, sky too but with punch white clouds and the greenery turns near white.

Play around, see what you like - the skies your limit.

Don't just stick with my infrared photography suggestion above, try photographing people, cars, cityscapes and seascapes.

Go Pseudo
Jane Newman.co.uk

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