Infrared Photography - Walking through the suburbs

solominer (72)in #architecturalphotography • 5 years ago

In the winter I find wandering around neighborhoods gives my camera better foliage opportunity to capture. Most home owners will plant bushes and trees that are evergreen, meaning they do not lose their leaves in the winter.

So since the woods are filled with sticks right now, ive been checking out some suburban homes and their gardens in the front yards. Mostly subdivisions and cookie cutter homes, I would not want to live in them but they sure look pretty to take pictures of.

You can see special coating is on the windows reflecting the infrared radiation making them appear mirror like.

These are my entries for #architecturalphotography

Camera Model	Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum
Lens	Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12mm-50mm
Filter	720 nm Infrared Pass through filter
Aperture	f/4.1
Shutter Speed	1/1000 sec
Film Speed	200
Spectrum	Infrared (IR)
Wavelength	720 nanometers
Location	North Georgia USA.

Many trees placed in subdivisions are picked for their foliage, Bradford Pears also known as Callery pear trees are notorious for use by uncaring developers. They look nice and are okay trees eleven months out of the year, but for one month every year they stink. You can actually smell them from hundreds of feet away, but luckily the bees love them.

Many folk keep their lawns in good condition, well alot of them dont have a choice. If you live in a HOA (Home owners association) you must keep the yard "nice". Or you will be fined and lose community access, again.. not a place I would want to live.

There were some nice artificial hills built in to some yards, maybe to help with our massive rainfall we get. Erosion can be a big problem, so sloping must be done right.

I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.

I carry many 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 pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with IR 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 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.

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

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