I have been piddling around with a thermal imager for
a few days. I may need the device for an
upcoming study on an electrical distribution system. I am learning how to capture, store, and
export images in a more usable format. For
practice, I have been shooting stuff around the house.
Thermal imaging devices offer an alternate and
particularly narrowed view of the physical world. Surface textures, profile details, our
normally registered wavelengths of color, and the senses of three dimensional
space are sacrificed in favor of recording the stark heat signatures of
whatever the camera is fixed on. There
is no delineating living and non-living things.
Everything is registered on a simple scale of temperature.
A thing is hot or a thing is cold.
The images fascinate me.
Posted today are some images I captured with the
imager I am learning to use. In the
first capture, you see 20 pounds of housecat standing in my kitchen. The next image reveals the “heat prints” the
cat left on the floor after he walked away.
In the final image, I caught my foot in the foreground and another 20
pounds of housecat sprawled on the living room carpet in the distance.
--Mitchell
Hegman
Interesting!
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty fun to use!
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