Portal:The arts/Featured picture/December, 2008

Credit: by Daniel Schwen

A tree photographed in the near infrared range, in infrared photography film or an image sensor is used that is sensitive to infrared light. 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." Infrared photography became popular with a number of 1960s recording artists, because of the unusual results; Jimi Hendrix, Donovan, Frank Zappa and the Grateful Dead all issued albums with infrared cover photos.