Some of you may recognize where this image was created. It came from one of my favorite parks, Palisades State Park where I love to camp. This particular image is capturing the light in the inferred spectrum which gives it a ghostly look. Its a medium that I have just started to get into and have a lot to learn about. So far I feel that this is one image, out of dozens, that I feel was successful.
So what attracted me to this way of capturing light? Well its light that sits right off the red end of the visible light spectrum so we can’t see it without the aid of filters or machines. Visible light is between 400 nanometer to 700 nanometers, Inferred is 700 nanometers to 1 millimeter. I know that is a lot of technical jargon but it helps in understanding why we don’t see it. By capturing images in this light what is everyday becomes something new. I feel if we look at thing in a different light, literally , it may change our way of thinking. I also like the way it makes the green look ghostly white while very thing else is a grey or black.
This particular image was shot as a long exposure due to the filter being so dark. In some images the ghostly look along with the movement of the trees give it a spooky, fantasy look to it. The other benefit of have a long exposure it that all the people that were in my image, are gone. It is because they move too fast and where ever they were is now painted over with the background. It is said that the best time to capture images in inferred is to do it around the time the sun is at its highest, but I found that a thin cloud day can be just as good.
An Invisible Sun