Indoor and outdoor plants: infrared photography at the tropical houses, Botanical garden, Zurich
In February 2015 I will have the pleasure to lead a Science Trail (also) about infrared photography at the Botanical garden of Zürich. I took a first investigation on infrared light in the tropical houses of the botanical garden…
Click each picture to enjoy the patterns of indoor plants, greenhouse structures and outdoor twigs.
The rich variety of plants reflect different infrared amounts
Infrared light reflected by the fern trees in the main cupola
Large leaves reflect high amounts of infrared light
Infrared reflections in the underwood
Infrared sunset at the tropical houses, botanical garden, Zürich
All pictures shot with D800 + 50 mm f/1.4 G
Lorenzo
Love the pictures. They have an angelic look to them! The contrast within the shadows really accentuate the clarity of each shot. Very nice!
Cheers
Jim
Thank you Jim, nice to read you again! There was no wind In the greenhouse where I shot these pictures. Therefore I could work with long exposures and low ISO: the result is indeed very sharp for infrared photography.
Great photos Lorenzo – beautiful!
Some super IR shots – I have been experimenting for a year or so with Faux, and a 720nm filter + a Hitech 6stop IR filter –now awaiting imminent delivery of old DSLR converted to 850nm; look forward to further IR adventures!
Thank you very much Gwendoline. I had a lot of fun with far-red shots but I did not dare to remove the IR filter from my camera. Maybe when it will get older I will give it a try. After plants and people in far-red shots I did not develop new ideas..your friendly comment pushes me to try for new things..let’s see. I wish you super IR adventures!