A slight detour

I remembered walking along East Coast Park on the 30th of December looking for butterflies and other critters to shoot. I was an inexperienced shooter then and I was searching for butterflies at 4 pm in the evening. Needless to say, there was nothing in the macro sense for me to capture. However, the hot sun did give an advantage in another form of photography i.e. infrared red photography. In infrared red photography, the sensor used in the camera is sensitive to infrared light which is invisible to our naked eye. All objects emitted infrared radiation under heat and when we use a camera sensitive to infrared radiation to capture these images; it presents false color images that are quite beautiful in the abstract sense. I shot these two images at ECP and was so enthralled by its effects that I went to PRP the next day to shoot again.



Street Lamps at ECP



Lone Tree at ECP

The Nikon 12-24 is perfectly suited for IR photography. There are no hotspots and the "colour" comes out pretty well. It could be due to the ED glass in the lense. Here is one more shot from PRP and another two from Fort Canning.



Empty Chair



Fort Canning



In some of these pictures, I was using something called the Orton Effect to produce the paint like effect. It is a pretty interesting method dated from the film era which we could still replicate in the digital era.