Full Spectrum Style Transfer Art: Azalea Flowers Part 1

I really enjoy seeing the Azalea flowers open, in the mountains and in peoples yards. I came across a red flowering Azalea. And took some pictures using my infrared filter, and then removed that filter to let full spectrum light into my camera.

These photos are my posts for #trippythursday by @blacklux

Camera Model	Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum
Lens	Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm Macro lens
Filter	None
Aperture	f/5.6
Shutter Speed	1/800 sec
Film Speed	200
Spectrum	Full Spectrum (FS)
Wavelength	300 nanometers through 1200 nanometers
Location	North Georgia USA.

Going back to my office I use a technique called neural style transfer to transform my infrared content images into stylized full spectrum photos. Though things do not always go as planned, as the imagenet seems to choose strange ways to stylize. In this case the algorithm had troubles with choosing what were flowers and what were leaves. It got some correct but filled in the red flower color on leaves in some cases.

I find it cute, like some would find a toddler using a coloring book. The algorithm gets alot that we adult humans have learned. But other things we take for granted and machine learning has a long way to go in some cases.

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I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.

I carry many filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with UV light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B + W 403 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.

There are also exotic glasses made of sapphire and germanium I am open to working with to replace my silica glass hot mirror with a material that allows even longer wavelengths of infrared to enter my cameras sensor. Special sensors, lenses and filters of that material would be needed as well, so it would be a big project but one that may give some even more unique photography results.

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For more information on how I do my photography I have a short video on that: https://steempeak.com/photography/@solominer/vqgcrs3x

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thanks @nevlu123 for the animation

#photography #machinelearning #infrared #fullspectrum #digitalart