Re: [MyOlympus] IR Photography - Why?

8:14 AM |

My point is that IR and UV photography are "otherworldly" but still
"Real" while Ps manipulations can cross that very fuzzy line.

-alan

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2010/8/31 Bjørn K Nilssen <bk@bknilssen.no>:
> On 31 Aug 2010 at 10:41, Alan Hoyle wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> -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:
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>> >> --- 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.
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>> >> 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.
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>> > 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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