Andrew O'Neill
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Had fun...mosquitos included... shooting the two old churches in Dorothy! Kudos to my lovely and patient wife, Chie (think chia pet) for waiting it out in the car.... again!
Another nice video, Andrew but at the risk of appearing thick or lazy or both, I for one would have appreciated another slow and deliberate running commentary of how you arrived at your exposure and aperture setting for Rollei IR
The bird by the way was guffawing and saying to his youngster: "Now just look at the trouble forgetting to take an iphone for a photo causes"
pentaxuser
I usually use the film at EI of 1.5 (to accommodate the 720 Zomei IR filter)... I almost always place important shadow areas on zone III, and give 2 stops less exposure for that. Then I add three stops to get me to EI 1.5, as my metre only goes down to 12. Then, I add reciprocity compensation if necessary, and it almost always is. For some of my shots during this trip, I shot at EI .75. It's too much exposure, and negatives were too flat. EI 1.5-3 is ideal with this filter.
I either develop in Pyrocat-HD or Xtol-R. I'm going to do a side by side with the two developers eventually.
So your EI is 50 or 100? If so, that is a lot of down rating the ISO. Why? The Zone System will take care of the shadow detail without the downrating.
As usual Andy, lovely photos and entertaining video!
Just watched them both (do not know how I missed the first), and enjoyed seeing the beautiful location.
The church photos are black & white classics IMO. I have two favorites: the first comparison of the white church with hill in background, the infrared sparkles.
The last composition coming from the side of the church is pretty cool; I like the perspective.
Sorry for the midges, but I do know how that goes as I live very close to marshes.
When I am out shooting in my area, I have to deal with 'no see ums' and alligators.
Your video work is fun to watch.
Thank you for sharing!!
Darr
My exposure process is:
I take the darkest shadow that I want its detail and get the f/stop and shutter speed.Set that in Zone 2, Zone 3 or Zone 4 and open up 3 stops, 2 stops or 1 stop [OR change the shutter speed by 8 times, 4 times or 2 times]What method do others use?
Is there going to be a video showing the drive home?
If I meter a shadow/dark area and I want to put it on zone 2, I'm going to take my meter reading (which corresponds to zone 5, in theory) and close the aperture by 3 stops. Opening up by 3 stops, as you state, from the meter reading is going to put that dark area on zone 8, not zone 2. Then I would account for a filter, if one is being used (almost never).
No. My EI unfiltered is 200. I work this way to keep shadows open.
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