It is typically the worst time of day to go out and capture images with a camera, but not infrared. I had a choice to go for a bicycle ride or go for a drive with my new camera, and I chose the latter. I wouldn’t capture anything worthy of a “portfolio”, but it would be fun an interesting nonetheless.
First I drove to Chapman Park to see if there were any interesting images to be made there. The images of the fishing pier were interesting, but not my favorites of the day.
I’m still not sure if I prefer to soften the contrast of these images or not, but I processed all the images of this day in same manner, being certain to utilize the entire histogram, including the blacks.
Strangely, my favorite image of the day was the simplest. It is the top of a silo that I pass almost daily in my commute back/forth to the office. As I was driving by looking for something to pull over and capture and image of, I saw the clouds, considered what the leaves on the vines might look like in infrared, and I turned around to capture this image:
From there I went travelled East and South, capturing images of the treadmills initially from a distance, and eventually up close. What was really neat was making this image, from 7 miles away, knowing that the haze that was obscuring my own vision wouldn’t be captured in camera:
Once I was nearer to the windmills, I was able to take a few nice images, but nothing “worth writing home about”:
And while I didn’t finish the day with any stellar images, it did give me another opportunity to learn how to see through the sensor of the IR camera, and maybe I am a little closer to understanding how to capture that great image when the opportunity one day presents itself.
Or maybe not.