As much as I dispise the month of February (it's not the month of purification for nothing), it's been going by at a pretty good clip. The work-for-pay thing has been going well -- I predict that it'll be the sport of the future. An unintended side-effect of working-for-pay is the absence of working-on-the-house. So no new bathroom photos for now.
But the kitchen flooring is now in the queue, as is the kitchen tiling -- so it's going.
If you've been reading this blog for a while you'll know I like infrared photography. Why do I? I wish I knew -- let me know if you have any ideas. To take digital infrared photos I modified an old Nikon Coolpix 950. Two problems with the 950 setup: 1) being a 2 megapixel camera, I couldn't use the photos from it in large prints, and 2) the 950 sucks. The UI for the camera menus guarantee 5 minutes to find the setting you're looking for. Tthe LCD has so much glare it might as well be blank -- making it less of a point-and-shoot and more of a point-and-hope.
I know, waa waa.
So I bought a Nikon Coolpix 5400 on eBay and turned it into an infrared camera. I'll spare you the details -- suffice to say that it involved taking apart the camera. This was easier than the 950 because I found a website (LifePixel) that sells what you'd need to convert your camera from normal to infrared, and shows how to do it.
So here's the before & after photos from the office window. Infrared makes the sky darker and the leaves brighter. But it being winter & all, not too much foliage to show.
