This is my first experiment with IR. As part of my birthday present, my wife and I travelled down to Glazer's in Seattle, and I found and purchased a Hoya R72 filter and some Rollie and Ilford 120 IR film.
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.
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.
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.