Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white… to highlight that contrast.” — Leonard Nimoy The medium of infrared has the power to transform seemingly mundane subject matter into unforgettable images. Everyday...

As I’ve mentioned here many time, like many photographers I get inspiration for my images from many sources. One of my photographer friends, for example, finds it in old master’s paintings; I get the inspiration for, at least, some of my photographs from the movies.

If you read my post, Avoiding Memory Card Problems, you know that if you tend to shoot a lot, and maybe even if you don’t, it’s inevitable that you might run into some problems that could cause you to lose some of your photographs.

The last time I tried this PhotoWalk it was with an Olympus Pen E-P3 and two pancake lenses. This time I was planning on taking the same walk, down the same streets but photographing it in infrared with a Panasonic Lumix G5 that has a Standard IR (720nm) infrared conversion by Life Pixel.

Many photographers, including myself, wear glasses. I guess that’s why camera manufacturers invented built-in diopter corrections! As far as I can tell, the first cameras to have adjustable diopter correction, as opposed to screw-in viewfinder adapters, were the Olympus OM’s (3 and 4) and the Nikon F4.