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[chablismom]

[aeridanus]

Infrared season has begun again! <3 Here are some images from today, leaning towards the “golden” look this time. Post-processing improves with every set of image, I think :) We’re allowed to stay in homeoffice even with Covid measures ending, so getting back into the photography groove is way easier with lunchbreak strolls through the river meadows around here.

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S.023 por haribote

[ojo-sappiness]

Finally, turned red in Kyoto by Yoshi Shimamura Via Flickr: December 2nd. The city of Kyoto is now ablaze with colors in autumn. This year the autumn leaves were coming out a quite late...really late. Taken at Nanzenji(南禅寺).

[aeridanus]

Some more infrared testing with photos from the lunchbreak walks :) It’s interesting - the same Photoshop workflow on a set of images from the same day, all shot within one hour, sometimes doesn’t work at all and sometimes yields a crazy good result (like the above three). Especially the first two are probably as close to a “natural” impression of a somewhat infrared-shifted vision as I can get it with my lens filters. I test around with an orange filter (letting light beyond orange through) and a cheap green filter which should just tinge the image green, but does curious things in front of a full-spectrum camera, letting green and infrared through. That one was used for the above three, but it has its limits. Maybe, just maybe, the Kolarivision IR filter should be imported for peak IRxperimenting...

[aeridanus]

These look like generic vintage hipster photos x)

I tested another setup with old microscopy bandpass filters I bought on ebay some years ago. They’re not meant for photography, but especially with UV photography, I wanted to test the limits of my camera before committing to a proper $200+ UV bandpass filter.

This is the result and it makes me happy :) What you see on the first image is purely UV-A radiation at roughly 340 nanometers of wavelength. We can’t see this part of the electromagnetic spectrum, it’s beyond violet and the type of radiation which is partly responsible for melanoma, but also for vitamin D production in the skin. Plants absorb it, hence appearing dark, while the sky scatters it and appears milky white. Everything looks murky and overcast - on a clear, sunny day.

It’s almost the direct opposite of how infrared radiation behaves. Compare all on the second image - same spot, same minute. Left is ultraviolet, center is visible, right is infrared. See how visibility and the reflective behaviors of water and plants change :) This is the fucking coolest shit.

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S.022 por haribote

[aeridanus]

Even more infrared from around the river! Now that nature has fully exploded, it was time to wake the favorite filter from hibernation. Really getting into the pocket of the infrared groove again, I don’t want this introvert paradise to end...