Full Spectrum Walk by River Cam

My full-spectrum camera captures a broad range of light, including ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths (350 nm to 1000 nm). The results are very dependent on the amount of light around so the colours change in sunlit and shadow areas. Here a few scenes that I enjoyed capturing during a CCC walk along the Cam yesterday evening.

Winter Walk at Wimpole Estate

Very enjoyable walk in the sunshine at Wimpole Estate yesterday morning wih my full-spectrum camera.

Lichens

 Been experimenting a bit with lichen photography - these are with full-spectrum camera which demonstrates some of the colours etc that invertebrates might be seeing with their different sensitivity  to us to the various wavelengths of light. Only the yellow/orange colours stood out to my eye - others were dull grey.

Wrest Park 3

I was using a full spectrum camera at Wrest Park, which is a modified camera that has had the internal infrared (IR) blocking filter removed, allowing it to capture the full range of light—ultraviolet (UV), visible, and infrared (IR). Often these cameras are used with different wavelength filters to capture particular wavelengths for monochrome work. I was using mine without filters and doing adjustments to colour in lightroom. 

Challis Gardens

Francoise and David kindly dressed up in their Edwardian clothes and joined a group from our camera club at Challis Gardens in Sawston  for an evening shoot. We were lucky with the weather so there was beautiful golden sunlight just breaking through the trees. I decided to use a legacy f1.8 50mm lens which is ideal for an evening shoot except that it is manual focus only which I didn't always get spot on. I also used a full spectrum camera as the light faded  - have included one colour balanced and one b/w from that camera (interesting which clothing absorb, radiate or reflect infrared etc. Thanks David and Francoise for an enjoyable evening.