Fun with infrared

This was taken with an LX-5 and R72 filter; processing was simply setting auto white balance in the GIMP. The false colors are kind of pleasing, but I can live without the graininess, which almost looks like reticulation, doesn't it.

Another I.R. experiment. Taken with an X100 and an R72 filter, everything else left on automatic, except for knocking exposure down 2/3 stop from metered. I wish I'd doubled that.

First time out of the box, so it's scarcely perfection. But I thought it was interesting. I've long loved photographing this farm. The day was very hazy and cloudy, so many of the attributes typical of I.R. pictures are attenuated, alas. Shot through an R72 filter and kicked exposure down 1 1/3 stops from metered.

Colors can go all haywire, not to say apocalyptic. It's still possible to salvage a black-and-white version, though. And I kind of liked this result, which is my idea of what terraforming would be like on the planet Mercury.

I love this view; will make it nice in an infrared picture if it kills me, which it might.

A bridge in rural Athens County, Ohio, in infrared color. Processed from OOC jpeg in The GIMP using the tremendous EG infrared plugin, which makes processing much, much easier.

It isn't really that color, at least not to our eyes. Then again, the trees aren't, either.

Doing infrared in black-and-white is comparatively easy. Getting the colors to work is the trick, I think. This was taken from the Big Run Bridge in Athens County, Ohio. Gray day, or the sky would have been more interesting

Too bad the sky was so gray -- would like to see which color it adopted.