Infrared fun 2019

No matter what I tried, I could not get the bee to lighten in post. Possibly because it was black.

The 18-135mm Fuji, reports to the contrary notwithstanding, has an ugly color hotspot.

These are said to be edible, but I do not consume fujgi I know nothing about, because many of them will kill you and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Also, I don't know how to cook them.

I got GIMP 2.10 today, which has many added color management features. The original was just a little too pastel for my liking. It's my hope to get some new GIMP skills.

Okay, I can't resist a flower with an insect in it, but this one was especially fun because it gave me an opportunity to try out the great new highlights/shadows sliders in GIMP 2.10.10. While I've obviously not refined my technique, I can say with certainty that all the petals were blown out in the OOC image, and a -75 at the highlight slider brought 'em back. Cool.

I desaturated the cyan but otherwise this is an OOC jpeg.

This one was shot with the sky as the background and processed a little more heavily.

So here we have an infrared macro picture of a dandelion seedhead made with a 50mm f2.8 Nikkor enlarging lens on a helical focusing tube.