hi folks so I thought I'd add this little bit to the start of the vlog to explain how I got to be
shooting infrared photography with the Panasonic fz82. so a while back, while I've certainly been
watching other people's infrared photography vlogs and enjoying them i hadn't thought about using the
Panasonic fz82 to shoot infrared. However it was a few weeks ago that I got a message through my
Facebook page from one of my YouTube viewers who said he was considering buying a Panasonic fz82
and he'd like to shoot infrared with it, but he wasn't sure if it was up to the job.
Now that sounded like a challenge to me so of course I was immediately looking for a IR filter
to use with the Panasonic fz82 and to see if indeed, you can shoot infrared with the fz82.
So one last thing before we head over to Goodiford Lakes in Devon, where I shot these images,
is to say that if you need to know how to process these images then certainly I can
put together a vlog, however there are plenty of other people who've done these already and
certainly things like creating a DNG profile for Photoshop etc. I will put a link to the videos
I watched to show me how I got to do that and um yeah, over to me now it's Goodiford Lakes.
Well good morning YouTube and today's vlog I thought we're gonna try to do a little bit of
infrared photography. The sun's quite bright there is some cloud in the sky, sadly it is a little bit
windy which may cause a little movement in the images but I thought we'd give it a go anyway.
So
this morning again the subject's going to be the fishing lake and there's plenty of water,
plenty of clouds in the sky and some trees, plenty of foliage - should be quite good for
a little bit of infrared. There are two ways to shoot infrared, you can either go for an expensive
camera conversion to change it over to a full spectrum and then just use an infrared filter
to try and cut out everything bar the infrared signal. What I've done is to go for a Zomei
filter, this I think is the 720 so anything below 720 nm gets taken out and only the infrared signal
above that gets through to the camera. Now when you take those shots what you find is the image
appears in the back of the camera really red and then you have to alter that in post processing.
So this is the shot I'm going for, this tree which leans over slightly it's good reflection
into the water and we've got some good clouds in the sky hopefully we'll get a nice image.
So we'll try a different composition with
this willow tree here and see what that image looks like.
Well as if by magic the sun's just gone in, however, I'll talk about the camera settings while
we're waiting for the sun to come back out. So the camera settings while I'm just taking a shot now.
We're using ISO 80 on 4 second shot, f2.8 and using a 10 second timer to
eliminate any shake I'm getting with the little packpod lightweight tripod.
Famous last words and this is going to be the final composition of the day or is it? I've got
the packpod there set up on a little bit of a wooden stump, overlooking the lake and we've
got all these purple flowers not that you'll see the purple flowers when it is in infrared but
there should be a nice bright white colour or at least the leaves of the plants will be not
sure what colour the purple flower's going to be but that's half the fun with infrared.
So that's pretty much it for infrared photography, as ever if you really enjoyed
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