Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard Ritter showed: Subject: [Leica] M8 picture in magenta light >>Took this picture at a local restaurant, tempting fate by photographing a subject illuminated by a magenta-filtered incandescent light using an M8 without an IR filter. (Recipe for disaster.) I lost. But an interesting effect. Lucky for the performer his scalp isn't black synthetic fabric.... http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/One-man+band.html<<<<<<< Hi Howard, Considering the variation of light conditions I'd be glad I had an exposure at all! A pox on the on going concerns of people about M8 and IR. In this kind of indoor night club situation who's going to say the light isn't right? It isn't daylight that one can relate to or strobe or colour that any viewer can say for absolute sure that there's even IR light here? Sure I suppose because it's lit by "red light bulbs." So big deal? It's never going to look like high noon on a sunny day with IR filters or not. I've shot in tons of night clubs and other bar scenes where the light was absolutely wild. In the good old days it was shoot some on daylight balanced film. Some on tungsten film! And choose whichever one looked the best! The very neat part? Both scenes looked cool!! Magazine art director liked the look, the owner of the clubs thought I was a magician with a camera! And that's all that matters as they pay the bills! And quite frankly, I was as happy as fox in a hen house they turned out as well as they did! So in your case of no IR filters and living dangerously and "you lost" is totally meaningless under these conditions. You didn't lose, you won a damn fine bar scene others would fear to tread without using twinkie lights! FLASH in other words!;-) It only matters where there's a fixed "light colour" the viewer can relate to. Certainly not the lighting of a night club! Actually it's fine. There maybe some sort of " grain" (noise) effect as you mentioned due to shooting at high ASA rating. However shoot this scene with a Canon 20D at 3200 and you would be laughing all the way to the bank! ;-) Sorry guys I had to throw that in just to stir the pot a little! ;-) ted