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SD14 out of the attic - playing with IR B&W

Started Aug 3, 2019 | Discussions thread
xpatUSA
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Re: Colour clothes turn white in IR (second attempt)

DMillier wrote:

Edit: apparently the reason coloured clothes all look white in IR is because the colours come from dyes that are transparent at IR wavelengths and all you can see is the underlying white of the cloth base.

Didn't know that...

Me neither.

People's faces can look a bit ghostly in an IR shot, as you probably know.

There's a sun-block cream commercial running here where sun-damage on normal faces is revealed by what appears to be UV lighting. Looks horrible!

I wanted to shoot the wife (!) but she refused ...

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