Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've seen breathtaking imagery taken with UV and IR photography. Should those images be ignored?! I don't get it! I'd love to be able to do some. I got a very dark dark red IR filter once from B+W but never gave it much of a shot. Digital seems like the way to fly for this stuff. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:06:48 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 Ultra Violet photography > > Hi Marty, > > I understand where you're coming from. To me it is a different art > form. It's not everyone's taste, actually very few I think. My son, > who also shoots with the M8 and Leica film cameras doesn't like it at > all. He calls it unsettling. Meanwhile I'll just go happily along > doing the things that I like. But I do appreciate your comments. > > Cheers, > Len > > > > On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Marty Deveney wrote: > >> >> Hi Len, >> >> I appreciate your perspective, but never understood why someone >> would want to take pink and blue pictorial photos. I confess to >> agreeing with much of this: >> http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/ >> why-i-hate-infrared.html and think it applies equally to UV >> pictorial photography. >> >> Perhaps the aesthetics of pictorial UV and IR photography elude me >> (although I do understand why Henning and select others use it). >> >> Marty >> >> >> Gallery: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/main.php?g2_itemId=7617 >> >> >> -- >> Be Yourself @ mail.com! >> Choose From 200+ Email Addresses >> Get a Free Account at www.mail.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information