After looking at what humans miss in life in terms of what we see and notice, I decided to look at it from a different angle and a question I had previously considered; How much do we see in terms of light?
The answer is, well, not a lot. We see visible light but there is a whole other spectrum out there to view. Butterflies are thought to have the widest range in terms of seeing across the spectrum of light. Now, I know there is a way to shoot utilising waves such as Ultraviolet and Infrared, and so I had a look at them.
I found this film shot in Infrared film in Congo to capture the impossible, something we can't see. This article to accompany it that I found on No Film School talks more about it in depth:
http://nofilmschool.com/2013/06/infrared-cinematography-documentary-the-enclave/
I also had a look at shooting in Ultraviolet, and found a photography project which I found very interesting.
This project, and others have mainly focused on the human form and have been able to show the layer of skin directly below the epidermis, which creates and interesting effect and reveals a lot about the human form that we don't usually see.
Those are my thoughts are the moment, and I think perhaps I could take this idea further in some way and try to interpret it into something I can actually make for a film, since I have set cameras I have to film on and so it is unlikely I could shoot in infrared if I wanted to, and also it would be fairly ambitious to do so.
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