1st IR - forest near Ladner

Very good for your first IR experiment. I like it.

Peter

well done

Thanks Peter, and thanks Bob.

Matt

Very nice!

And thank you Andrew.

Matt

Matt, You have a good result with your IR film. But I wonder would you consider cropping the right hand side of the photo. The high light draws the eye to that side, where as the real interest should be to follow down that pathway thro' the forest. Try it out and see what you think.

Cheers
TEX

It's better than my first IR attempt (and the 2nnd, 3rd, 4th.......).

I have recently acquired a Mamiya C33 which I want to use for IR. Did you find the C220 being a TLR was good for IR use?


Steve.

TEX:

Thanks for your comment.

As to the cropping, as this is a negative scan, I decided to post it essentially full frame. I intend to print it as well, and will experiment with different crops when I do so, including your excellent suggestion.

Steve:

I think that a TLR is perfect for Infrared. Viewing and focusing isnt affected, and the low effective ISO (when IR filters are used) means that the low camera vibration is very helpful.

I do have one concern. I expect that some bellows may be more IR transparent than others, and it may be that older bellows may be affected differently than newer ones (or maybe not?). On one of my negatives, in the middle of the roll, there is some fog at the edge. It may be that my camera caught some sunlight while I was taking the adjacent photograph, but I'm not sure.

Graham Patterson's Mamiya TLR resource discusses using IR films in the TLRs, incluing a suggestion on how to adjust focus (probably not applicable to the near-infrared films).

I don't know whether you've done an APUG search for info, but I found a lot that was very useful. The link to the digitaltruth page on Infrared was especially useful.

Based on the information gathered, I shot each shot using my meter set at ISO 3, and ISO 12. The ISO 12 negatives look slightly thin, but this one scanned well. I'm looking forward to printing and scanning the rest.

Thanks for your comments.

Matt

Most of the older bellows are some kind of leather and does well with IR. Mamiyas are great with IR. The edge fogging for is more an indication of a seal leak or more likely from the paper backing not quite tight enough at some point.

It give a delicate almost fairy tale look. It would take a different kind of "eye" to see for this film. Thanks for pointing me to this from MSA!