First remix with an IR layer
Sunday, being bad art day, was the perfect chance to test out the new toy(s) I ordered: an infrared filter and a new tripod head from Really Right Stuff. The IR exposure is about 1.3 – 1.6 seconds at f16 for 200 ISO. And the D70 is the right tool for this job.
Last week I got the horrifying but expected reminder that SIGGRAPH is pointing to my website, where I had promised in my artist statement to put up more examples of the multi-temporal images. I would have done it long ago but for one glitch – what to call them. I’ve been thrashing around with the wording for months. Maybe it’s all the reggaeton music I downloaded from the ITunes Store, but inspiration struck in that moment of desperation when I had to decide: remix. Google it on Wikipedia. I particularly like this part:
remixing can be seen as a major conceptual leap: making music on a meta-structural level, drawing together and making sense of a much larger body of information by threading a continuous narrative through it.
yeah, that’s what I do
So it was only natural to employ the IR images immediately as another element in a remix image, tada.
Today’s assignment
I took my regular walk around the neighborhood with the camera to see what regular things look like in IR. Had to amp up the ISO, since my blistering pace wasn’t suited to tripod work. Anyway, the tripod is otherwise employed in the basement with the D2X is making 12 hours worth of photos ALL ON ITS OWN in a time series. Hee hee, I’m working for 12 hours while eating bonbons on the sofa.
Since I can’t see through the almost black filter to focus or compose, it was all a surprise when I got home, just like film used to be. Even the histograms on the camera are pretty useless (the D70 one displays mostly the green channel, while the IR is recording mostly in the red). I find this image disturbing. The STOP text just completely disappeared in the IR band. And yes, these are colored images, not B&W like trad IR film. Which means…remix!
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