Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I might just try your conventional film IR tomorrow. It's supposed to be a sunny day and I've got some Tri-X in the fridge. BTW My digital IR is shot at ISO 800 and it has half the grain as HIE exposed at 50. Cheers, Len 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information