Sunday, October 26, 2008

INFRARED ON A HOT SUNNY DAY

INFRARED ON A HOT SUNNY DAY

Of course digital cameras are cool,
the more you learn about them the more you find to do.

Take FILTERS.
Filters are just simple glass lenses that fit over the camera’s main lens to effect the light coming in.
They darken, color, enlarge etc, however the INFRARED filter blocks all normal light and only allows the infrared spectrum through.
What infrared light is, I don’t know, but the pictures I create with it are dreamy and a little eerie.

The classic infrared shots are of landscapes, where it turns skies a nice dark, and green-leaves to white, but with these portraits, like I said they’re sorta un-earthly.

The originals have a pinkish hue that was removed with PhotoShop, then I did some hand-coloring.

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