Jackie infrared

A reasonable start on learning how to deal with infrared. It would take some good knowledge of push and pulling development to correct the blown highlights and blocked shadows. Either that or if the negative does have the information. Taking a good course from and experienced printer. there are two bath developers with added water bath step that do wonders.

Ha. There are no 'blown highlights'. I wanted the lighting effect you see here, and chose this place because I like the light pattern. The light was filtering down through the leaves onto the grass in the front of this burned-out house, but the house had much less light falling on it, as you can see. Perhaps you didn't notice that. The shadows are not 'blocked' either. You may need to adjust your monitor. Kodak High Speed Infrared does not behave like regular pan films, and the highlights tend to have a 'blown' look (it is actually irradiation) because there is no anti-halation backing. Perhaps you were unaware of that. Some people like the effect, but I am not fond of it, for the reason you made the comment you did. The intensity of the light decreases as you go farther back into the scene toward the house. This was taken in about 1980.

Oh, and by the way, I TEACH photographic darkroom.

Zone System delenda est!

You may have wanted it, but it still looks like blown highlights to me. Other than that I like the subject presentation

That's the way HIE looks. Have you ever used it?

If that's the way it looks, and you don't like that look... why do you use it?

I'm not sure I follow you. HIE is one of a very few infrared emulsions, and given the filtration necessary, the speed is quite valuable. The Konica is VERY slow. It would not have been usable for this scene, and I don't think it was even available in 1979 or 80, when this was taken In other words, there was no other choice available.

Since you "TEACH Photographic darkroom" You are well aware of the techniques to make the house not look like it is falling down. With those converging lines so accentuated by the bleach white glow below them I hope you do not actually show this to your classes as a way to print. As it is I would point this out as how NOT to make a fine print much less a fine photograph.

You might also want to burn in the bleach white glow around your model so as to accentuate the glow of the model which is the strength of this photograph.

The perspective of a 21mm lens naturally will make the house recede and of course it was deliberate and complements the 'eerie' feeling that the infrared effect supplies. The print is gorgeous. I admit your suggestion about burning in the grass shows you are thinking, but I shot her on the grass precisely to get that effect: it is not a portrait, and she is not the 'subject'. And by the way, this is a splendid exmple of EXACTLY how do do 35mm HIE work. It does lose a lot in digital form, though.

The ignore list doesn't seem to work here, gang! If you rag on him here, you'll succeed only in eliciting more verbal effluvia.

good print or bad print, this is the standard gallery guys, i imagine Hansbeckert would have put it in the critique gallery if he wanted a crit??? although saying that, I do agree with everyone - I've used HIE and the IR bloom never looked as washed out as this ...