Re: New Photos on my Website

[Stan McQueen <stan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:02 PM 08/25/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Stan, I am very impressed with the IR images on your site.  Would you 
>elaborate on details about the film, filters, and exposure used for the 
>images?  I am very interested from a learning stand point.
>
>Thank you for sharing them.
>
>Keith Zimmerman
>zz_ir@xxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks for your comments, Keith.

The black and white IR images on my site are all Kodak HIE. I use a 
"broken" Nikon FE for black and white IR. The metering system on this 
camera doesn't work, so the shutter is permanently locked at 1/90 second. 
The only variable is the aperture. The images on my site have been taken 
with a variety of filtration; the most recent ones were taken with a Deep 
Red #29 filter. I meter with a Gossen Luna-Pro and then bracket. I use the 
info in the IR FAQ as a starting point for setting the ISO; the photos I 
took in Oregon and Washington were taken with an ISO of 32, which is a 
variance from the FAQ. I develop all my HIE in D-76 stock solution for 
between 11 and 12 minutes at 68F. I then scan the negatives on my Microtek 
flatbed scanner and clean up any dust spots, make any needed exposure 
adjustments, and apply an unsharp mask to sharpen them up a bit. I save the 
images as TIFF files, and then convert the TIFFs to JPEGs for use on the 
website.

The color IR photos are Kodak Ektachrome IR taken with my Nikon FM with 
either a Cokin Yellow or a Cokin Orange filter, metered through the lens at 
an ISO of 320. The film is processed by a local processor who knows to turn 
off the IR sensors on his processor. The resulting slides then go through 
the same digitalization process as the negatives.

If you have any more questions about my images, please let me know.

Stan
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IR and other photos by Stan McQueen at http://www.smcqueen.com
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