Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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