Re: Bio

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Sat, 11 Jan 1997 15:54:39 GMT, Bob Peak wrote:

|filters I need.  I haven't found any but I would like to see if anyone =
is
|using IR for action shots (ie; smeared backgrounds, sharp focus on a =
person

Interesting idea, but possibly self-defeating unless done very, very
carefully.  Using mainstream films, the blurred elements in such
action shots still suggest the real-world elements that produced them.
They therefore suggest context and motion. With HIE and IRE, the
blurred elements suffer two sea-changes: one due to the motion and one
due to the film.  So unless you're very careful, these elements would
be unreadable so to speak--like a text in regional patois, if you're
an anglophone with only a standard Larousse.  However it might be
quite exciting if superbly done.

Don't worry too much about filtration in the beginning.  Willem may
wince at this, but it seems to me that there's far less difference
between HIE exposed through a Wratten 25 and HIE exposed through one
of Willem's "opaque" filters than there is between HIE with the
Wratten 25 and, say Plus-X with a Wratten 25.  So get the feel of IR
photography first with whatever filter comes to hand (usually a
Wratten 25 or any other "dark red" model).  Once you do, you can
decide whether the ultra-IR effect is worth going after for your
particular purposes.  I knocked myself out tracking down a Wratten 29,
which shaves off a little more of the visible-red bandwidth, and I'm
not at all sure I can see the slightest difference between exposures
made with it and ones made with the Wratten 25.

Bob Long
(boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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