This is, simply put, an amazing photo. Not because of the subject, wise guy, but because of the technical settings: f/8.0, ISO 400, shutter speed 1/30. Bear in mind that it was heavily overcast out, with occasional feeble drizzle. Pre-converted and using a thread-in filter, the shutter speed would've been in the 40 second range, my face would've had blurring because of my inability to hold stock-still for that long, and the image overall would be muddy with poor contrast because of the cloud cover. This image is the sharpest IR portrait I've ever taken of any human being, and this is with my guesstimating the focal plane. And this image is pretty much straight out of the camera--I tweaked the levels a bit and applied an unsharp mask to it, but I'd have worked half an hour to get my earlier IR efforts to this point. I'm 100 percent sold on the virtues of conversion. 
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