Full-spectrum photography at Cambridge Botanic Gardens

Most full-spectrum digital cameras can detect some ultraviolet, all of the visible and much of the near infrared spectrum (350 nm to 1000 nm). However, the longer infrared waves are recorded the strongest and remove much of the visible light in the blue and green areas in a full spectrum photograph. Here are some examples from a day in the Cambridge Botanic Gardens yesterday. Interested how the Greenbottle's metallic colours recorded so strongly despite the background information above!. The first image, taken with a lot of green foliage overhead cutting out some of the shorter wavelengths, reminded me of trips to northern Scandinavia and the views as our small plane came into land!!

Green Therapy along the River

I have the reputation for finding bright greens in images very distracting so wondered whether images with green as the only colour would work. Images from a walk along the river in Cambridge on the hottest day (so far!) of 2023. With the Chestnuts already turning to autumn hues it certainly simplified the scenes. Last two images playing with different colours.

Evening Panoramas at West Cambridge Site

The main purpose of our CCC outing to the West Cambridge site was to explore panorama photography (with kind permission). These were multishots (up to 7) using Fuji X100V (fixed 35mm equiv. lens) handheld and processed in photomerge option in Lightroom. These are in taking order, starting and finishing with the Schlumberger tents 

Cambridge West Site Panorama Evening

Yesterday evening a group from CCC visited West Cambridge site to take panoramas of the buildings. For some of the time I was using my Sony RX100 Infrared-converted camera to do both panoramas and wide angle shots. These are from the jpegs with a profile applied in camera and then adjusted in Lightroom. Not images that would stand up to scrutiny when printed large but great fun playing with the colour palettes as the light sources changes.

 

Three years Pass on Hills Road Cambridge

As part of our ongoing CCC project to record changes in the Streets of Cambridge since our 2001-4 survey, I spent an hour photographing Hills Road (see Documenting Cambridge). As I did an interim visit in 2020, it is interesting to see how much has changed in just 3 years rather than the 20 of the main project. For instance, Richer Sounds (who have kindly sponsored our Annual Exhibition) have built a new shop further into town along with lots of other changes while Tescos remains essentially unaltered.