Re: Wired goes infrared! ( Oi! ... Mate!)

[Bobbie Doyle <doyleb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Tom Benedict wrote:

> On a totally different note, has anyone done any hand-colored IR?  If so
> could anyone upload some to the gallery?  I'm thinking of trying it out
> (my first real try at hand-coloring), but I'd like to see what other people
> are doing, too.

I have done lots of handcoloring, but I don't have many IR's at this time.
I wanted to send something to Cor, but I only have one IR that I really
like. I was going to wait until I shot some more film. Which I did, and if
you recall I was testing various ASA's and the last three rolls were very
high contrast. For my tastes I find that grainy somewhat toward
over-exposed negatives make better prints for handcoloring. I color the
whole image.
There are those who just select parts of an image for a spot of color. My
high contrast things would be okay for that but it's not my style.

If you are going to try handcoloring IR. I would suggest Ektalure, or some
of the Luminos papers. The Luminos Charcoal and Tapestry give a look much
unlike a photograph. Their RC Art handcolors nicely also, if you want to
try a RC paper. 

If you have a way to view attachments, I can e-mail you the one that I
have stored on my computer as a jpg file. And as soon as I get a couple
more done I will send them to Cor's IR Gallery.

Bobbi




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