Even though its winter outside the plants inside by the bright windows seem quite happy. A Christmas Cactus is the first of the plants shown in this post. It cannot survive outdoors with our climate but its a nice place to have around the house. It produced flowers one year but has not since. It had some red tipped leaves making me think its stressed.. Maybe im giving it too might light from the sky lights.
Camera Model
Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum
Lens
Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12mm-50mm
Filter
720nm Infrared Passthrough filter
Aperture
f/3.5
Shutter Speed
1/30 sec
Film Speed
800
Spectrum
Infrared (IR)
Wavelength
720 nanometers
Location
North Georgia USA.
Not sure the name of this plant, but its cuttings are kept in a mason jar with water added every few weeks. Seems very happy with that setup.
The jar is a purple tinted glass and was casting its hue on the leaves, looks like it showed up in infrared as well on the bottom leaves.
An Aloe Vera plant with fresh growth on it. Its quite happy by the window as well, no flowers yet but seems to be content none the less.
Due to the water content in the plant it cannot survive frosts so it must be kept inside. When grown outside they do produce flowers, a blaze orange color.
A shot with the window in the background and the spines of the Aloe Vera plant can be seen. The color of the window in the background is interesting in contrast to the Aloe Vera.
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I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.
I carry many filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with UV light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B + W 403 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.
There are also exotic glasses made of sapphire and germanium I am open to working with to replace my silica glass hot mirror with a material that allows even longer wavelengths of infrared to enter my cameras sensor. Special sensors, lenses and filters of that material would be needed as well, so it would be a big project but one that may give some even more unique photography results.
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