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This might perhaps turn out to be one of my all-time favorite B&W infrared photos that I have taken. Walking to a restaurant in Manhattan – we were on the shadow side of the buildings, and the light was blue. In other words, “cold” … except for the lights under this awning outside the Metropolitan Club. I immediately noticed these were incandescent lights, and I knew that this would show up as a much brighter splash of light in the frame with the infrared camera.<\/p>\n
To the human eye, the entire scene was fairly flat lighting … but the incandescent light allowed the blue-ish tones to fall into darkness because of the lack of infrared light ther<\/p>\n
A first photo, with no one in the frame, looked really good. Like a still life shot of this scene in Manhattan. However, when we left the restaurant an hour later, there was a doorman, and a bunch of people walking along the sidewalk. I got this one photo before cars cluttered up the street again.<\/p>\n
I love everything about this photo — the composition with that splash of brighter tones, and everything falling into relative darkness because of the infrared sensor of the camera.<\/p>\n
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Over the \u00a0years I have used a number of different cameras and lenses for infrared – Canon and Fuji, and now Sony. There is one persistent problem with shooting infrared photos – the dreaded infrared hotspot<\/a>, from how the light reflects internally in the lens. In the past I have had to edit the RAW file and reduce this obnoxious brighter spot in the center of the frame. \u00a0But there are lenses that does NOT show that infrared hotspot — and I finally settled on that dream lens for any Sony photographer that shoots infrared. The Sony 24mm f\/2.8 G<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0(B&H<\/em><\/a> \/\u00a0Amazon<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If the look of infrared photography appeals to you, then you can have your camera converted by\u00a0Life\u00a0Pixel<\/a><\/strong>. On their website they list all the options, as well as which cameras are suitable, and which lenses might be a problem. There\u2019s a ton of useful information on infrared photography!\u00a0Check them out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My favorite infrared B&W photo … so far This might perhaps turn out to be one of my all-time favorite B&W infrared photos that I have taken. Walking to a restaurant in Manhattan – we were on the shadow side of the buildings, and the light was blue. In other words, “cold” … except for Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4392,13839],"tags":[4393],"yst_prominent_words":[1116,1115,1021,10889,10888,10890],"class_list":{"0":"post-52492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-infrared-photography","8":"category-new-york","9":"tag-bw-infrared-photography","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52508,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52492\/revisions\/52508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52492"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=52492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Related articles<\/h2>\n
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