My first infrared (IR) picture with Garth Hockersmith. I shot it with a Nikon D70s camera converted to IR. I've wanted to do some infrared photography for years; ever since I used IR weapons systems in the F-16CG LANTIRN and the F-117A Stealth Fighter.
Garth's shirt is really black, and his skin is actually white. (Thanks Monty...) White color = bright in infrared wavelengths. Evidently skin doesn't reflect/radiate much infrared energy, at least not at the wavelengths the camera sensor will see. Notice his skin is not very sharply defined, yet his shirt is. Infrared complexions look a little washed out. The colors of the face images in the background are pretty much as they show in the pic.
I'm learning how to use infrared images before trying IR High Dynamic Range (HDR) backgrounds, with desaturated color pictures of the foreground subject, also known as a composite picture. But, this pic is fully IR.
TC,
Michael
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