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Subject: [Leica] Infrared ans autumn
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Mon Jan 8 14:13:54 2007
References: <002301c6f3d7$af24f1b0$6801a8c0@philbebf9fd538> <4538A3BE.3080901@hemenway.com> <4538A948.9090705@hemenway.com> <4538CAB2.40802@hemenway.com> <A90CFB22-1715-4091-AC2E-882BA4C484C1@pandora.be>

You're right, I think that I overcooked 'em in the soup.

Jim

Philippe Orlent wrote:
> I always liked your IR work, but these ones are just a bit grainy for  me.
> Thanks for showing,
> Philippe
> 
> 
> Op 20-okt-06, om 15:10 heeft Jim Hemenway het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> 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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