Behind the Lens

a blog every Friday on a specific species of animal or bird and stories of photos

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Landscape, Infrared Photography Siddhartha Mukherjee Landscape, Infrared Photography Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Beauty of Infrared Photography

One of the most charming contrasting color effects you can get in photography is by using infrared. An easy way to understand near-infrared light is to think of it as the color of the rainbow next to red, a color that is invisible to the human eye. But near-infrared is not the same as thermal imaging which is far-infrared. What I have done here in my photographs is leverage the near-infrared spectrum and have tried to provide a look into an invisible world present in the visible around us. #wildartworks, #infraredphotography, #longexposurephotography

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