Digital Infrared October 2001

Well, I finally got a suitable filter (Hoya 72m in this case; almost totally opaque to visible light) and started playing with infrared photography.

If you've never worked with ordinary infrared film, you won't appreciate this properly as a user. You don't have to load the camera in subdued light. You get immediate feedback on your results. Your light-meter works fine (the builtin one, which gets its data from the CCD). And you can pop off one or two infrared pictures in the "middle of a roll".

I was startled to find the preview on the LCD was essentially monochrome; I would have thought maybe black-and-red, on the theory that the color filters on the other pixels would block infrared very effectively. But apparently not; apparently infrared affects pixels similarly through all three filters. At least it seems that way after all the processing to make the image I actually see.

Morning glory transparency
Morning glory transparency
Red roses
Red roses
Morning glory (smaller, purple)
Morning glory (smaller, purple)
House on Lake of the Isles
House on Lake of the Isles
In this image I have chosen to preserve the minor residual color that is captured by the CCD. The grass, to my eye, retains a slight green, and amusingly the sky gets a slight red (though it was blue really).
End of Lake of the Isles
End of Lake of the Isles
Looking across Lake of the Isles
Looking across Lake of the Isles
Lake of the Isles #2
Lake of the Isles #2
For this image I chose to preserve the very small amount of color captured by the CCD through the infrared filter.
Witches Hat Tower, normal
Witches Hat Tower, normal
Witches Hat Tower #1
Witches Hat Tower #1
Witches Hat Tower #2
Witches Hat Tower #2
Witches Hat Tower #3
Witches Hat Tower #3
Oleg Volk (infrared)
Oleg Volk (infrared)
David Dyer-Bennet (infrared)
David Dyer-Bennet (infrared)
Best guess would be that Oleg shot the ones of me.
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