The infrared camera exposes humans and plants brighter than in the visible spectrum, so there is definitely a cool effect here. You can see how bright the palm fronds on the forest floor are compared to what they would be with a normal black and white image. I converted the images to black and white to get rid of the funky colors shown in my other blog post.

Other than the infrared shots, I also wanted to get some more use out of my new Nikon primes. These first two images were taken with the Nikon 85mm 1.4G, and the bottom one was with the Nikon 35mm 1.4G. I posted some shots from similar locations with both cameras (although than the b/w vs color) so that you can see the difference in the background blur. The above shots were taken at f7.1-f9, while the color images are all wide open at f1.4. Shooting wide open with the infrared camera has a negative affect on the image sharpness. There is some science behind it that I’ve already read and forgotten.

It’s hard to argue with sweet background blur like this!  Softening the background really separates the subject from the background when compared to the black and white infrared landscape image above.