What makes Thermal Art Photography unique?
How is Thermal Art Photography different from traditional photography?
Thermal Art Photography differs from traditional photography in that heat is used instead of light to create an image. A thermal image can be taken day or night and is not light dependent. A long wave infra-red camera is used which captures surface temperature and translates this into a visual image. Each surface radiates or reflects heat differently and applying a colour scale to these measured heat variations allows a thermal photograph to be created.
How is Thermal Art Photography different from infra-red photography?
Thermal Art Photography is often confused with infra-red photography but they are two separate applications. Infra-red photography is where you use a traditional camera combined with filters and/or infra-red film to create a “dream like” infra-red photograph. This application works in the near infra-red part of the electromagnetic spectrum using infra-red light. Thermal Art photography on the other hand uses far infra-red and requires specialised equipment to create a thermal image from the radiated heat. It is the combination of many temperature measurements which create the final thermal art photograph.