This past Sunday, I decided to go on an infrared PhotoWalk in McCabe Meadows to answer a question about black and white infrared photography that I asked last Friday: Now I wanted to find out what’s what and shoot a similar image and process the RAW files in black and white. You know, to see what happens.

Following up on my #tuesdaythoughts post about “Obtaining Proper Exposure” with another look at a different way of achieving a “perfect” exposure using the Substitution Method.

I’ve always loved the Nash’s Metropolitan automobiles. Mary and I saw this particular car when we were driving back from Evergreen, Colorado where we had gone to friend’s house to look at an MG B that he was selling. (No, we didn’t buy it.) On the way home, I saw this Nash Metropolitan with a police bubble on top and knew I had to stop and photograph it.

When teaching workshops, the number one question that I get from students and one that usually permeates the entire event is their quest for the perfect exposure. Back in the 1970’s I used to tell my Basic Photography students at Howard Community College that the perfect exposure was the one that they liked. And I still believe that today.

As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.—Neil DeGrasse Tyson