Chris Bennett
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Sony NEX 5 converted to full spectrum / Sigma 56mm f/1.4 / 720 nm filter
Living in a diorama
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Sony NEX 5 converted to full spectrum / Sigma 56mm f/1.4 / 720 nm filter
Brian Moore
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Your timing is perfect in this shot, Chris. And although I'm not normally a big fan of color IR (or whatever "full spectrum" is--I've been meaning to look into how that differs from IR) the pink palette works spectacularly here. Very nice indeed.
Chris Bennett
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Thanks Brian.
The full spectrum thing is that both the UV and the IR filters have been removed. You select you bandwidth of choice with the use of a lens filter rather than having the removed ones replaced with one over the sensor, which is how a lot of conversions are done. It was originally the b&w side of things that I was interested in, to indulge my love of trees, but the false colour stuff is fun and I haven't seen much street photography done in IR, so I thought it was time to change that! Actually I've been doing a fair bit of that with b&w too.
The full spectrum thing is that both the UV and the IR filters have been removed. You select you bandwidth of choice with the use of a lens filter rather than having the removed ones replaced with one over the sensor, which is how a lot of conversions are done. It was originally the b&w side of things that I was interested in, to indulge my love of trees, but the false colour stuff is fun and I haven't seen much street photography done in IR, so I thought it was time to change that! Actually I've been doing a fair bit of that with b&w too.
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Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
I like the “No Loading” sign above the fully-loaded baskets.
Dave Farnes
Well-Known Member
That does look like a diorama, like a detail from an elaborate model railway layout. Great image.
Pete Askew
Admin
Wonderfully surreal, Chris. And who knew coral could grow in a high street! 
Chris Bennett
Well-Known Member
One of the things that strikes me as increasing the surrealism, Pete, is the feeling that the various elements that make up the scene are not quite to the same scale as each other. I find that quite fascinating!Wonderfully surreal, Chris. And who knew coral could grow in a high street!
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Ha, yes, I see the scale thing now. It certainly does add to the weirdness of the image.
Pete Askew
Admin
It does doesn't it. I can see why the IR will render both flowers and foliage similarly and so make the plants seem bigger than one would expect, but I guess that the pole / supports is just good fortune.
