If you haven't noticed by now, I take a lot of photos of the same tree from across the field. After all, it is a nice tree, standing taller than those that surround it. In this case though, I wanted to do something a little different, and decided to throw my 720nm infrared filter on my lens. The image has been processed using a red/blue swap and overall I'm kinda happy with the result.
For various reasons I haven't been able to get out to take photos recently, so I was restricted to shooting things in close walking distance. Even so, I wanted to do a little bit of infrared photography, so I decided to shoot this tree blooming in the median. I'm not super happy with the composition, but I absolutely love the way infrared with a red/blue color swap looks, so I decided to share.
I've been wanting to play around with infrared photography for years now, but always thought you either needed a specially modified camera, or to be shooting on film. I recently found out that if you use a filter that blocks visible light, while allowing infrared light through, you can still do infrared photography on a regular old digital camera. That said, the amount of light being recorded by the sensor is significantly reduced. As a result, this image was shot on a tripod, with a 1 second exposure, despite being shot on a fast prime lens, wide open, at ISO 400.
