Re: Focusing/Best time of day

[Cor Breukel <cor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Chris Hulme wrote:

>  Many articles I have read stress the point that B+W infra-red works 
>  best when there is plenty of sunlight.  It looks like I've 
>  mis-interpreted here because I read it to mean that the middle of the 
>  day provides the best results and consequently have been blasting 
>  away with my Dynax on the stroke of noon.  After reading one of the 
>  other postings, it appears early/late in the day are the best times 
>  as there is a higher proportion of IR at these times.
> 
>  Would this be the reason why I've not been able to achieve very dark 
>  skies (which is the effect I was after) with either Konica or HIE 
>  even though I appear to have got the exposure right in one of my 
>  bracketed shots?


..speaking from my experience: I only achieved real black skies in the
early morning or late afternoon, and as George rightly put: aim at the
dark blue sky (usually the sun is behind you than, that's a bit harder at
noon ;-) ).... 


Cor Breukel 
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