As I take the next step in the exploration of the infrared photography world, there is more fun to discover! In last week’s post in the “Monday’s Spectrum Exploration” series, I shared some of the experimentation with materials and their response. Those images provided me with a sense of the responsiveness of the 720nm filter. With a bit of that knowledge on board, I pushed the envelope a bit more.
You can see in this week’s attempt what the result might be…
For this shot I put myself flat on the ground underneath this stone arch, positioning for the sunburst capture. Using the wide focal length of 24mm enabled me to use the trees for framing the image.
Using the ‘standard’ approach of a red/blue channel swap, I highlighted the bright, rich blue of the sky, seeming almost alien in its hue. There is a definite sense of this stone arch reaching out towards a faraway point, that is out of our view. Who knows, this could be a leftover impression of a wormhole from antiquity…