Near-infrared pictures of Japanese gardens

[mattbell]

I spent some time last weekend with L wandering in the Japanese gardens in San Francisco and taking pictures in near-infrared.  In near-infrared, foliage tends to be very light, as well as most man-made inks (including some black ones).

(Near-infrared is different than the "body heat" infrared you may have seen in these videos I posted a while back:  http://www.youtube.com/user/sinfrared )

I do need to order some better filters... a lot of the shots suffered from ghosting, overexposure, and other problems stemming from the fact that the camera I was using did not have good exposure control and I usually couldn't block enough infrared light.  My "camera" was a Sony videocamera in nightshot mode, with an infrared bandpass filter on the front. 

 









Full set on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9055206@N06/tags/ir/

Comments

[agentsteel53.livejournal.com]

what is the cutoff frequency of your IR filter?

I tend to use 720mm and 780mm filters. They also result in a vastly different white balance.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

840nm bandpass (lets in 820-860). I have other infrared filters but that was the only one that blocked enough light to have the exposure work out in sunlight. (I have no exposure control). I'm going to get a couple of neutral density filters so I have more options.

[icka.livejournal.com]

beautiful

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Coming from you, that means a lot! Thanks!

[cortneyofeden.livejournal.com]

Very, very cool!