[Leica] Infrared ans autumn

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

>Hoppy,
>You're right. I didn't have to shoot any film. I've got many 
>hundreds of B&W film landscape scans. In photoshop just set the 
>image mode to RGB, play with the red channel in the channel mixer 
>until the green foliage is a nice deep pink, desaturate to get back 
>to B&W and your left with nice white foliage and the look of IR 
>film. Nice effect. And very fast.
>
>Len

The thing is that not all foliage of the same hue has the same IR 
reflectivity. That allows tonal separations from true IR that are 
completely different than those from film that has been channel mixed.

Same applies to other materials and surfaces.

>
>On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:43 PM, G Hopkinson wrote:
>
>>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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