Field of Flowers and Infrared Imagery

Posted Fri May 14, 2004 in Photography

On the way home this afternoon, we stopped to make some images of the wildflowers. They have already peaked for the year, but there are still patches of beauties there and I found a few. This view of the field full of flowers was made with my 60mm macro lens at f22 and 1/60^th^ for full depth of field.

It later occurred to me that I wish I’d had a neutral density filter and my tripod with me. The wind was blowing the flowers and I think a neat image could have been made by exposing for a half-second (which would have required the ND filter). Then there would have been color swatches spread throughout the frame. It would also have been interesting to put the image just slightly out of focus and again make a longer exposure. Hindsight is so darned good.

I’ve been doing a little research. As it turns out, my D100 is capable of infrared photography. I’m going to order a Hoya R72 filter and do some experiments of my own. I’ve always wanted to make infrared images. I love the softness of the light.

Bayimages has a review of the D100 and mentions that it is infrared capable.

Rob Williams has also experimented with the D100 and infrared imagery. He has some nice images made with the D100 and talks about the technique necessary to get good images.

A site with a number of beautiful infrared images is irimages.com. Jaap Los has several galleries from the Netherlands made with the Kodak infrared film. There’s an example or two on Usefilm too.