Re: infared in winter

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 17 Mar 98 at 16:42, siteseer wrote:

>         I was going to wait until the spring foliage came out before
> beginning to shoot B/W IR film.  But I was wondering, has anyone shot
> outdoors in the winter, either in snow or just plain winter surroundings,
> with any success?  How does the snow come out?  Any wierd effects, or just
> like regular film?

I just returned from yet another skiing holiday; the good news is 
that my PhotoTrekker straps didn't rip this time....the bad news is 
that the weakest link was me, resulting in:

- - 1 dislocated right arm
- - 1 slighly fractured upper arm bone
- - 1 crushed skiing ego (I'll get over that sooner than my shoulder 
heals....;-))
- - 5x HIE
- - 3x EIR
- - 3x IE (the old E-4 version, 20 exp, long leader (which my EOS-1 
refused to swallow)

Why not more rolls?....:-))
Because I crashed halfway during the week, with the most sunny days
yet to come. Bummer, but that's all in the game....no gain without
risk....a high risk, but an even higher gain. There is no way I will
go skiing one single day without my PhotoTrekker, and HIE loaded in
both an EOS-1 and a Horizon 202 panorama camera. Both filtered with
a #87C. This year I stuffed another EOS-1 in the bag for EIR
(already had a second body for normal slides....:-)), and even
managed to find a noname polyester #12 equivalent to put between the
filmrails, just like the #87C for HIE). It pays to take a lot of
photo crap with you on holidays, I didn't even know I had this pack
of polyesters in my suitcase....imagine yours truely in an holiday
appartment, fiddling with filter, scissors and tape....:-))

(btw, be carefull with alcohol cleaning tissues....my filter turned 
in a frost-glass like surface after 'cleaning'....water and some 
shampoo worked better....:-))

Anyway, to see the absolutely unwordly results from previous skiing
holidays, check my homepage:

http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/mainpage.htm

Personally I like HIE even more in winter than in summer....it is also 
less sweaty to change films in a darkload bag....though too cold 
isn't fun either....must work on an insulated bag one day....:-))

Also: the physical phenomena responsible for the extreme IR 
reflection of snow is *exactly* the same as for foliage, see my 
homepage for an alinea from Walter Clark's book, where he mentions 
this.


- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


<w.j.markerink@xxxxx>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
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