Meadow and Pear Tree

This is a great image..I especially like that utility building in the background.

Ganz wunderbahr, Wolfgang! I love how you used the infrared film and its strengths to compliment this scene. Not just another tree shot. Very beautiful.
- Thomas

Marvellous, both in composition and tones.

I really like the composition.

Peter

I love the soft tones you have achieved with infrared. Is this due to the Efke IR film or your developer or your paper choice? One last question , I'm intending to use Efke IR with a Hoya R72 filter, what ASA should I set to begin?

Thanking you
Vincent

Lovely light and tones. What a relaxing photograph.

All the best,
Daniel

Really, really beautiful, the textures and tones. The placement of the structure is perfect I think with the way it's roof line accents the line the tree's shadow.. outstanding.

Thank you all.

This tree is an old friend. I visit him once per year - he is directly beside the house of my sister-in-law in Switzerland. Some quite beautiful pictures have occurred over the years (e.g. http://www.apug.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36117&ppuser=4656 ).
With each shot, I think it is the last, because with such a veteran changes as good as nothing in the relatively short period of one year. Therefore it must be because of changes with me, if I see him differently as before.

Usually I try to influence IR-films in a way that it corresponds to my imagination: First of all the position of the sun, then the selection of filter and developer.
One reaches the strongest effect if the sun stands in the back somewhere. The contrast is high, the blue heaven dark, green plants appear brightly. Sometimes I like that, sometimes not. In this case, I wanted to use the qualities of IR to make the modulation of the landscape more clearly. On the left, over the edge of a hill the sun rises. I have waited until the stable was reached of the first rays - the film procured the rest like expected. With sun in front of the camera, IRr-filmes also respond like others, speed must become reduced (for shadow separation). This Efke was rated at 6 ASA for development in Finol, but I did not shorten the development time in order to get high contrast in the lights.
No dogging or burning was necessary, because MCP has an extraordinary long tonal scale. Bleaching and toning with thiourea supports the separation of the tonal range.
This of all is only a matter of experience and the knowledge of the qualities of the used materials. Nevertheless I confess, I am a little proud of the result.

@TEX try 12 ASA