Camping at a new spot, we got to see the sunset with an open sky all around us. I brought along my special camera and used an infrared passthrough filter on it to capture these images. It was around 7pm and the sun was starting to fall behind the trees. The light casted through the trunks was making shadows on the harvested cotton fields around. It was a real nice sunset.
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/5
Shutter Speed
1/1000 sec
Film Speed
400
Spectrum
Infrared (IR)
Wavelength
720 nanometers
Location
Pine Log Mountain, Georgia USA.
A few minutes before, the infrared light was being cast into the tree tops giving them a white color to them. Though the sun was falling quickly on the horizon.
About an hour before sunset I could really see the light affecting the plants. Causing them to reflect the infrared light back at my camera giving them a white color.
The trees were casting long shadows on the harvested cotton fields. I was surprised they reached many feet long across the field as the sun got low.
I took one more photo before heading back to our campsite to cook some dinner. Got a shadow selfie on the field. Hah I look so tall.
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.
