Re: IR with no direct sunlight

[Ben Kreunen <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Can anyone tell me more about his/her experiences under those 
> conditions, some links with photos would be great, too.

As long as there is light you can take photos with any sort of film.  The 
hard part is learning to choose the right subjects fro the lighting 
conditions. The best way is to learn by experience...  get out there and do 
it!!  ;-)

 > Changing light conditions makes exposure and development more tricky, 
but more
 > fun.  Personally, I prefer to underdevelop a little to prevent the specular
 > highlights, the ones in direct sun, from blocking up. Then I print on 
grade 3 or
 > 3 1/2 paper to get the contrast back. It is extremely rare for me to make a
 > straight print from an IR negative. There is always some dodging and 
burning,
 > often using mulitple filter grades in the same print.

Once again, depends on the person.  I don't change my ISO, development or 
printing and rarely dodge or burn... I don't necessarily attribute all 
of  this to great photographic technique... I do have negs that don't print 
well but when I'm really critical about them it's because the light was not 
suited to the subject in the first place and attempting to salvage a result 
would be a waste of time.

My site's a little light on for big IR pics at the moment but of the 
smaller images in my photography 
section 
<http://www.bigbenpublishing.com.au/gallery/photography/infrared.html>... 
if you can see a dark sky (about 5 of them) it was sunny, if you can't 
(including all of the shots where you can't see any sky) it was overcast.

<http://www.bigbenpublishing.com.au/gallery/pdf/bwv00002.pdf>
<http://www.bigbenpublishing.com.au/gallery/pdf/bgr00002.pdf>
(both 6x12 Konica)

I really should get off my bum and finish this section one day  ;-)


Cheers

Ben

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