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Subject: [Leica] Hong Kong Cemetary IR Pictures with the M8
From: jeffmatsler at amaonline.com (Jeff S. Matsler)
Date: Sat May 19 19:17:12 2007
References: <200705182252.l4IMp7K8063578@server1.waverley.reid.org> <FDEF5293-5ADC-458F-A445-F632BB83D44D@netvigator.com>

Howard,

I'm not usually an IR fan, but these are literally (and eerily) out-of-this 
world!

Reminds me of a 50's / 60's gothic horror movie:  beautiful, sacred and 
mildly discomforting all at the same time.

Your angles are perfect - they really make the scenes.

Jeff M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Cummer" <cummer@netvigator.com>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: [Leica] Hong Kong Cemetary IR Pictures with the M8


> Morning Luggers,
> Yesterday Esther and I took the Hong Kong Cemetery tour with local 
> historian Jason Wordie. I thought it would be more interesting to  take 
> photos using the M8's IR capabilities so what follows are  pictures mostly 
> in the Catholic section of the cemetery taken with  the Tri Elmar with the 
> B&W 092 IR filter in place. I shot at ISO 1250  and developed the RAW 
> photos in Silky Pix, using its auto white  balance dropper to fix the 
> colour balance and then using the sliders  to play around from there.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK+Cemetery/
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2vuw4p
>
> Please let me know what you think. Pictures with stories will follow 
> later.
> Cheers
> Howard (in Hong Kong)
>
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