Flying without plane (IR)

- m i n i m a l i s m -

 

 

Okay, let's see how much minimalism folks can handle. Normally, meaning on the visible spectrum, pointing the camera straight up into the sky will result in a bright image, even at dusk. With clouds on the IR spectrum too, but the naked blue sky literally swollows up the infrared light.

So that's a super dark composition, therefore the extended shutter speed made the moving plane disappear, leaving only it's trail.

 

So I lend the title from a phrase that often appears in a Buddhist context (or truth I should say, even though truth isn't Buddhist or anything, it just is..): "Thoughts without a thinker". So plane flying is going on, with the noise (just imagine it, okay?), sky, the trail as evidence, but no plane that is doing it.

 

 

Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)

Zoom-NIKKOR 80-200mm f/4 AI-S

Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)

ISO250, 200mm, f/8, 1sec

(thus 300mm full frame equivalent)

single shot, tripod, remote (ML-L3)

Done