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.