Re: [MyOlympus] IR Photography - Why?

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On 31 Aug 2010 at 10:41, Alan Hoyle wrote:

> There are limits as to what Ps can do. Non-visible light photography
> literally sees things that the human eye can't see. They give some
> images an other-worldly quality. With IR, bright skies are dark and
> plants are bright. If you Google for "UV flowers" you can get some
> interesting images there too.

Sure, but most IR images doesn't show anything that the eye can't see anyway, and there
are a lot more possibilities for making other-wordly images in PS than in-camera (with or
without IR-sensors).
OTOH, about 15 years ago I developed an application that grabbed stills from live video
cameras. It was amazing how much more "penetrating" the cameras were when they switched
to IR cameras (B/W). With strong, but invisible, IR lighting with synchronized pulsing IR-
LEDs it could penetrate rain and snow quite easily :)
So with a IR digital combined with an IR "flash" you should be able to shoot in any
weather and at any time of day/night?

> If that's not any particular person's cup of tea, so be it. I have
> only toyed with it a tiny bit, and it's interesting, but I don't spend
> a lot of time on it.
>
> -alan
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> 2010/8/31 Bjørn K Nilssen <bk@bknilssen.no>:
> > On 31 Aug 2010 at 5:34, Patrick A. Timlin wrote:
> >
> >> --- On Tue, 8/31/10, John <zitjopa@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > Please do not take this the wrong way
> >> > as it is not my intention to criticise anyone or their work
> >> > but, can someone please explain to me the attraction for IR
> >> > photography.
> >>
> >> I don't know. How do you explain likes, dislikes, taste (or no taste if that is you
> >> opinion)? You either like it or you don't I guess.
> >
> > I used to shoot IR back in the 60s/70s using IR color slide film.
> > The attraction back then was all those weird colors you could get using various
> colored
> > filters etc.
> > Just like you can easily do nowadays in PS...

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