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Subject: [Leica] Infrared ans autumn
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Fri Oct 20 17:43:45 2006

You go, Len!
No question that Jim produces superb work with some rather wonderful 
traditional gear. Regarding the IR I was just thinking that you
could achieve the same tonal effect (with less grain) from scanned 
conventional black and white film, with our old friend, the
channel mixer.
Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Leonard Taupier
Sent: Saturday, 21 October 2006 10:25
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Infrared ans autumn

Hoppy. I was joking with you. My last film IR was two weeks ago using  
a M6 with a 28, 50 and 90mm primes and an 89B Cokin filter. Used   
Kodak HIE developed in D76 and scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000.  
Then cleaned up in CS2. I use photoshop for everything including my  
film work. My last digital IR was yesterday using a D1H. What Jim  
does is a lot of work and the film is expensive. But he's rewarded  
with great photos. I also like the fact he uses vintage equipment. I  
use a Spotmatic II from time to time. Most of my infrared is digital  
and manipulated in my MAC. I have never tried conventional film for  
IR but it's intriguing. Now that I'm retired I have plenty of time to  
play.

Cheers,
Len




On Oct 20, 2006, at 7:54 PM, G Hopkinson wrote:

> Leonard, I understand the satisfaction of that approach. I think it  
> is a mistake though, to regard a software darkroom as a trick or
> less worthy than a chemical one. Yes you can achieve decent results  
> fairly simply but it requires quite a deal of effort and skill
> to do very well, Just like wet prints, really. An infrared image is  
> not a natural one and needs imagination and good technique.
> Everyone has their own threshold of how much manipulation is  
> acceptable either to either source.
> The biggie is that Jim has used a manual focus film camera with a  
> prime fitted to make striking images. Absolutely commendable IMHO
> ;-)
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org  
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Leonard Taupier
> Sent: Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:34
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Infrared ans autumn
>
> But, Hoppy. That's cheating. You need the thrill of trying to salvage
> that under exposed frame or trying to figure out where to adjust your
> focus. When you're finished you have the satisfaction of knowing that
> you did it all and not the trick of a computer program. I must admit
> it is fun though.
>
> Len
>
>
> On Oct 20, 2006, at 11:24 AM, G Hopkinson wrote:
>
>> Jim, those are striking and impressive. My favourites are the  
>> bubbles.
>> I don't have any experience with the infrared film, but you could
>> certainly achieve this look, too with conventional film and
>> Photoshop (channel mixer) if you wanted to experiment.
>> Cheers
>> Hoppy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On
>> Behalf Of
>> Jim Hemenway
>> Sent: Friday, 20 October 2006 23:10
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: [Leica] Infrared ans autumn
>>
>> 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



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