Infrared Photography

This is something I've started getting interested in but never really got around doing the actual photography. But I have a colleague who actual does this kind of photography regularly. She even has a separate DSLR set up to shoot mainly IR photos which I find pretty cool.

Here's Wikipedia on IR Photography:

In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. The part of the spectrum used is referred to as near-infrared to distinguish it from far-infrared, which is the domain of thermal imaging. Wavelengths used for photography range from about 700 nm to about 900 nm. Usually an "infrared filter" is used; this lets infrared (IR) light pass through to the camera, but blocks all or most of the visible light spectrum (the filter thus looks black or deep red).
When these filters are used together with infrared-sensitive film or sensors, very interesting "in-camera effects" can be obtained; false-color or black-and-white images with a dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance known as the "Wood Effect," an effect mainly caused by foliage (such as tree leaves and grass) strongly reflecting in the same way visible light is reflected from snow[1]. There is a small contribution from chlorophyll fluorescence, but this is extremely small and is not the real cause of the brightness seen in infrared photographs. The effect is named after the infrared photography pioneer Robert W. Wood, and not after the material wood, which does not glow under infrared.
The other attributes of infrared photographs include very dark skies and penetration of atmospheric haze, caused by reduced Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering, respectively, compared to visible light. The dark skies, in turn, result in less infrared light in shadows and dark reflections of those skies from water, and clouds will stand out strongly. These wavelengths also penetrate a few millimeters into skin and give a milky look to portraits, although eyes often look black.

Danny-sama does a lot of Week in Tokyo photowalks. My friend, Maki, however likes to travel around the Philippines. She then shoots pictures of the places that she visits. Her photography is mostly landscape and mixing awesome scenery, her wide angle compositions and infrared photography, she produces quite breathtaking photographs. What I like about this kind of photography is that it shows contrast that one would not normally get in regular color shots.

Visit her blog for more photos or hit up her FlickR page for her showcased work.

Should be interesting to have her shoot my toys out in the wild, hmm? :D