Re: Winter shooting

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

On  1 Feb 00 at 8:16, Edward Rymes wrote:

> Greetings
> 	Some members of my photo club are thinking of doing an ir 
> field trip to try out the amazing world of ir. We are talking about 
> the Canadian prairie in February here. Although I have been shooting 
> for a couple of years and thus by this list a neophite, I don't think 
> they would get the best that ir has to offer. I haven't really tried 
> shooting in winter myself . My gut says to wait for spring/summer.
> Any comments or suggestions? I'd hate to see a group get turned off 
> of ir because of disappointing results.

Take a look at my homepage, where most images are shot in winter 
time, during Alpine skiing:

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

Also note that the IR reflection from foliage is based on the exact same 
principle as (IR) reflection from snow: bouncing of light inside airpockets 
(with foliage caused by the IR-transparency of the top layer, and 
light bouncing in the parenchym layer below, with snow it holds for 
all colors of light).
This also means that (fresh) snow on trees is almost an absolute 
must....as well as bright sunlight (you can do without, but only the 
strongest & contrasty compositions will work).

To me this 'application' is much more rewarding than in
summer....part of it might be caused by me being spoiled by &
addicted to the breathtaking Alpine scenery, but the best shots are
also a lot less predictable, which adds to the thrill IMO. Perhaps 
it's also the huge contrast between light and shadow areas....also 
hard to tackle.

The good part is that you don't get sweaty hands inside a darkload
bag....:-))
(and HIE, being an aerial emulsion, simply won't rip in extreme cold)

--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


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


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