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