Infrared Photography - Cone shaped trees

solominer (72)in #treetuesday • 5 years ago

Trees come in all shapes and sizes, these ever greens are a cone shaped in a neighborhood I walked through. I got about five of them in frame and took a few pictures. I think they naturally grow in this shape.

The tips piece the sky, a very empty looking sky due to the infrared passthrough filter I used. The sky absorbs most of the infrared light making it appear a dark empty space since it was a cloudless scene.

These are my photos for #treetuesday by @old-guy-photos

Camera Model	Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum
Lens	Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12mm-50mm
Filter	850nm Infrared Passthrough filter
Aperture	f/3.9
Shutter Speed	1/500 sec
Film Speed	400
Spectrum	Infrared (IR)
Wavelength	850 nanometers
Location	North Georgia USA

Above I used a slightly lower wavelength filter at around 720 nanometers. Ive noticed colors start returning to the image when I use filters closer to the visual light spectrum. It gives the trees an icy blue look, due to the wood effect of the plants. And the sky is a ruddy orange as just a little visual light gets into the camera.

I take pictures with a special Panasonic Lumix Camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR camera that has been modified by LifePixel to see in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to capture light in the Infrared around 1300 nanometers wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 nanometers wavelength.

I carry dozens of filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV cut filters to help me get a natural photo taking out the Ultraviolet and Infrared light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just Infrared light. I can do the same with Ultraviolet light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B+W 403 filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.

For more details on how I do my photography I have a video on that: https://steemit.com/photography/@solominer/vqgcrs3x

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