Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I always liked your IR work, but these ones are just a bit grainy for me. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 20-okt-06, om 15:10 heeft Jim Hemenway het volgende geschreven: > Hi Folks: > > At the end of September I loaded up my newly acquired "vintage" > Pentax MX with some Konica Infrared film to see what kind of > results would come out of shooting autumn foliage in infrared. > > For my tastes, infrared film does best when used in the spring/ > summer on green foliage, which it renders as a ghostly white or > light gray, at the same time it usually renders those dark blue > afternoon skies as black or dark gray. > > I attended a wedding on Mount Desert Island in Maine on September > 30th, > about 260 miles from where I live, and the next morning I took some > photos at Acadia National Park on the island and later one of what's > left of Sherman Lake in Newcastle Maine, about halfway home. > > There was an actual lake there for most of the last century but > when we > had all that rain a year ago, the dam which formed the lake was washed > away. > > Groton, where I took the barn photo is about 25 miles west of where > I live. > > Here's the photos: > http://www.half-fast.com/AcadiaInfrared-Oct2006/ > > As you can see from this batch, the autumn foliage doesn't present as > "ghostly" as does the earlier leaves. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >