A couple of years earlier, in my mission to discover brand-new methods to represent much photographed topics and loved-to-death places, I ended up being drawn to infrared photography. The attraction of infrared is that you can photo light that is beyond the noticeable spectrum. An infrared image looks various– often drastically different, in some cases just a little so. The audience may not realize what is various, nor comprehend why it is different, however they will understand right away that something about the image is unusual. In an age when virtually everyone has a great video camera in their back pocket, and relatively whatever has been photographed and shared on Instagram a thousand times or more, infrared offers a new method of seeing. For me, it was a new frontier (Figures 1– 4).
Figure 1. Our eyes can see just a rather narrow wavelength of light in between 380 and 700 nanometers. Infrared photography catches the wavelengths in between 700 and 1,000 nanometers, generally referred to as “near-infrared.”
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