Scattered Thoughts . . .

H ere is a photo that I shot this morning in our living room.  This is an Asiatic Lily plant sitting in sunlight coming through one of our living room windows.  I've mentioned a few things in previous blog entries about infrared light but this photo is a good example showing a few of these unique characteristics. First, the chlorophyll is glowing white which makes the green leaves render as a very bright white in infrared.  All else inside the house is dark.  It is like the lily plant is illuminated from within itself!   I've also mentioned that another characteristic of infrared imaging is exceptional clarity.  This is certainly visible in this shot but, honestly, it is really noticeable outdoors when shooting a wide landscape shot.  Infrared light seems to see through much of the haze that our human eyes see in visible light.  Well, it doesn't see "through it".  The haze that we see simply isn't visible in the infrared wavelengths. There is such thing as haz

A s I mentioned in a few previous blog entries, I sent an old Panasonic camera in for service to be converted to infrared sensitivity.  This will allow this particular camera to capture only monochrome infrared images rather than color images in visible light.   Once I get the camera back, I'll be able to show some good examples of monochrome infrared images and more easily explain how this differs from typical black and white photography in visible light.   In the meantime, I ordered a tiny pancake lens (on the camera in this lead photo) which is supposed to be good in infrared light so it would be the perfect lens for this newly converted infrared camera.   Some (or perhaps most) lenses are poor for infrared photography.  This particular one I ordered is reported by many photographers to be good in infrared light.  Another plus is that it is a tiny lens and I wanted a small lens for this small camera that I had converted to infrared.  Another plus is that it is a wider than aver