Re: Bio

[jenbob@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob & Jennifer)]

>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)

Thanks for the recommendations on the filters.  Currently, because I have
only used color reversal film, I don't have any filters for B&W.  The only
filters I have used so far are polarizers and neutral NDGrads.

What about exposure.  I know I can't rely on a handheld meter, so do I just
set all of my exposures to f16 and 1/125 with the Wratten 25 in mid day
light?  Do you have any general rules to share regarding exposure?

thanks,

Robert Peak/Jennifer Carpenter-Peak
PO Box 237
Kearneysville, WV 25430
304-876-3624
jenbob@xxxxxxxxxxxx



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