Infrared Photography – Tree fern Part 2

Reaching as much as I could, it was just out of reach. Though I am thankful to find one this close, as most are thirty feet up in the trees. I was able to get a little closer with my camera being on its steadycam mount at the time, which is basically a rod with weights on it.

These photos are my posts for #colorchallenge #wednesdayyellow as the 720 nanometer filter gives my photos a yellowish orange color to them.

You can find part one here: https://steempeak.com/photography/@solominer/infrared-photography-tree-fern-part-1

Camera Model	Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum
Lens	Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12mm-50mm
Filter	720nm Infrared Passthrough filter
Aperture	f/4
Shutter Speed	1/800 sec
Film Speed	400
Spectrum	Infrared (IR)
Wavelength	720 nanometers
Location	North Georgia USA.

The fern has wrapped around the tree and forms a crown around the trunk. You can see the ferns roots attached to the bark. They were on there pretty good, seemed to be a good host tree for this fern to grow on.

Below my feet, the spores dropped by this fern possibly begin growing recently. So it would seem this is not just a tree fern but can also grow on the ground. Though maybe its growing on a log or tree roots I did not notice.

They seemed to be doing fine in the cold weather, I think the leaves are helping to protect its structure from the harsh winter weather.

I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.

I carry many filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with UV light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B + W 403 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.

There are also exotic glasses made of sapphire and germanium I am open to working with to replace my silica glass hot mirror with a material that allows even longer wavelengths of infrared to enter my cameras sensor. Special sensors, lenses and filters of that material would be needed as well, so it would be a big project but one that may give some even more unique photography results.

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For more information on how I do my photography I have a short video on that: https://steempeak.com/photography/@solominer/vqgcrs3x

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