[Leica] Infrared ans autumn

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

I'm sorry that I haven't responded to these emails from October a long 
time ago.

Hoppy:

Thanks for the kind words.  I like using Photoshop, but sometimes I just 
want to go back to film for awhile.

Jim


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
>