7 Days of IR: Full Spectrum (7/7)

This is the final in my long series of posts exploring infrared photography, "7 Days of IR". What was meant to be a weeklong project stretched out over a couple of months due to COVID lockdowns and my trip to the United States. I had a lot of fun, and will probably start the same project again sometime in the near future! Today I'm using my little Kolari Pocket camera without any filters. The camera is a "full-spectrum" camera, which means that it's had its internal filter removed to digitally register all bands of visible and infrared light. Usually, various filters (as seen in posts 1-6 of this series) give a unique effect. 

As my 7 Days of IR project comes to a close, it's time to take one last set of infrared photos. This time, instead of using any of the various IR filters with my Kolari Pocket, I'm taking off all of the filters and letting in the "full spectrum" of visible and invisible light. Without any sort of filter, both visible and infrared light from across the wavelength are able to hit the sensor. It's not a terribly popular way to use an infrared camera, as the results are often muddy and brownish, but I'm curious to see how it turns out. It's a weird mix of visible colors and infrared light. Let's see how it goes!

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Photos taken at Queen Sirikit Park in Bangkok, Thailand on a Kolari Pocket Full Spectrum camera without a filter.

full-spectrum photos give true sky color, while turning shade and foliage a sort of muddy purple

it's a shady park, which meant lots of dark purple hues

tropical full spectrum palm trees

a quiet path at the city park

notice how the leaves in the far background are purple, but their reflection in the water is the true green color! Weird!

the green leaves of a lotus pond have turned a dark purple, making the lotus flower pop even more

a flower in the middle of the city

a gardener at the park - I like how the grass turned golden and the leaves turned purple

a bamboo-covered walkway

full spectrum photos almost require foliage to look unique - you might almost think this photo was shot on a normal camera

I hope my readers have enjoyed this little project as much as I have! I'll definitely do another 7 Days of IR sometime soon, and probably a number of IR photo gallery posts from time to time. I'm still not quite sure which IR filter I like the best, but part of the beauty and the fun of this little camera and this weird method of photography is the choice.

Check out the other posts in the series below!

- 850nm https://michaeldesrosiers.blogspot.com/2021/06/7-days-of-ir-850nm-17.html

- 590nm "ultracolor" https://michaeldesrosiers.blogspot.com/2021/06/7-days-of-ir-590nm-27.html

- 720nm "standard IR" https://michaeldesrosiers.blogspot.com/2021/06/7-days-of-ir-720nm-37.html

- IR Blue https://michaeldesrosiers.blogspot.com/2021/08/7-days-of-ir-blue-ir-47.html

- IR Chrome https://michaeldesrosiers.blogspot.com/2021/08/7-days-of-ir-ir-chrome-57.html

- 550nm "hypercolor" https://michaeldesrosiers.blogspot.com/2021/08/7-days-of-ir-550nm-67.html

- Full Spectrum https://michaeldesrosiers.blogspot.com/2021/10/7-days-of-ir-full-spectrum-77.html