Infra Red Photography

[Haselsh1]

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HAY BALES at Tupholme Abbey, Bardney, Lincolnshire, 1997



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CASTLE HOWARD AND URN, North Yorkshire, 1997



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APPROACH MARKER, RAF Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, 1997



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VICTORIAN SEA DEFENCES, Humberston, Lincolnshire, 1997

All images were shot using a Bronica ETRSi with a 40mm lens and an R72 filter onto Konica Infra Red film which was then developed using Ilford ID-11 for six minutes.

[Macca]

Brilliant, I particularly like the approach marker.

[Haselsh1]

Thanks Macca

[jostber]

Stylish! These images have soul. :thumbsup:

[Haselsh1]

Stylish! These images have soul. :thumbsup:

Many thanks for the comments !

[Marco]

As usual, Shaun, utterly stunning!


Stylish! These images have soul.


Indeed - partly because they've been shot using film, instead of yer digital shite! ;)

Marco.

[Tony Moore]

I love the Hay Bales image. Great stuff!

[Mr Nad]

Lovely. Better than the usual HDR which is rapidly being done to death IMHO.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Lovely Shaun, very nice indeed! Still not got a good shot out of my IR DSLR ... Maybe I should buy some IR film ;)

[Ashmore]

Nice shots these. You've got to like a bit of infra red (film or digital - makes no odds to me).

[Ant]

Very nice! Especially the bales

[Haselsh1]

Just to add a bit of musicality to the proceedings; The Hay Bales at Tupholme Abbey was where in 1973, a very youthful Roxy Music played a festival featuring Brian Eno on all things synthetic.

It kind of goes without saying, I am a major fan of Eno.

[Haselsh1]

Again, many thanks for the positive comments. Marco, you are indeed in the know when it comes to exquisite photographic imaging. Digital doesn't quite cut the mustard does it...?

[The Vinyl Adventure]

As usual, Shaun, utterly stunning!



Indeed - partly because they've been shot using film, instead of yer digital shite! ;)

Marco.

Broken record you are ;)

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Ere Marco ... Did you ever see this?
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15052&page=2

[Haselsh1]

Lovely Shaun, very nice indeed! Still not got a good shot out of my IR DSLR ... Maybe I should buy some IR film ;)

Hamish, I know very little about using digital cameras but I do know that one of the best DSLR's for infra red was the old Nikon D70 as it required no conversion just the use of an R72 filter. This was one of the few DSLR's not to feature an IR filter over the CCD. If memory serves me correct though, exposures were in the order of minutes not fractions of a second. When I shoot infra red film I am using an ISO of 12 and an exposure of around a half a second these days with a nice wide angle lens to minimise focussing errors. It seems to work. I'm going to post another collection of infra red here later in the summer when I have done my study of the North York Moors.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

You are correct Shaun
My first dslr was a d70 and i had a <720nm cut filter for it ... i gave up after a fairly short period ...
Since then i have picked up a converted d100 that has a <720nm filter on the sensor ... much easier to use as it just shoots like a normal camera but in IR ...
Ive had little joy getting anything i like in "false colour" IR as thay are mostly gaudy at best even switching the blue/red channels to get blue sky ... its just not a look i like ...

In black and white i have had some success taking photos of my dog ...
http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww282/hamish_gill/DSC_6998.jpg
http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww282/hamish_gill/DSC_7000.jpg

I have also has a little success in toned mono ... the IR effect on skin tones can be very interesting i think ... although you can see the focus is off, i quite liked the effect anyway

http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww282/hamish_gill/DSC_6981.jpg

I have recently been somewhat distracted by the blad though ... hence my comments about getting a roll of ir film ... ...

[The Vinyl Adventure]

...ps,noticing you used it for these ... i eventually got round to buying some id-11 off your recomendation a few years back ... I have been distracted by ddx and havent used it yet, but i will let you know how i get on once i get round to it!

[The Vinyl Adventure]

also, out of interest did you use a red filter for these shots?
do you rate SFX?

[Haselsh1]

I must be perfectly honest and admit that there is something very special about the Carl Zeiss lenses that come with Hasselblad cameras. The images that they reproduce are very special indeed but I just found using that make of camera a bit pretentious hence I sold all of my Hasselblad kit a couple of years ago. I now use 35mm all of the time and thoroughly enjoy it especially the vintage Nikon F3 with the MD-4 drive. I have a few manual AIS lenses and am really loving my photography all over again. I no longer print my work in a darkroom as I prefer to scan my negatives and work on them in Photoshop to enhance them and then get them printed out by BPD Photech in Warrington. Black and white looks so good on a high gloss synthetic paper. It gives the most outstanding blacks.

At the moment I am actually working on all of my old infra red images as I am producing a panel of work for a local wine bar here in Pickering. They are going to display them frameless with the intention of selling them at a commission of 10% which I don't think is at all bad.

[Haselsh1]

also, out of interest did you use a red filter for these shots?
do you rate SFX?

I used an R72 filter for my infra red work and no, I really don't rate SFX200 at all. It is not really an infra red film it is a surveillance film. One of the best infra red films at the moment is the one made by Rollei.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

not bad at all ...
funnily enough I have a similar arrangement with a cafe in worcester
Im building up a body of work of Worcesters older architecture and views ...
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15052

I had a similar feeling about blad kit ... but ultimately i wanted a square format camera and was seduced by the pictures i had seen! A member of my forum has a lot of blad kit and i loved the photos ... possibly because he is a better photog than me, but thats a different story ;)

I nearly went down the road of a fuji gf670
http://fujifilm.jp/personal/filmandcamera/filmcamera/mediumformat/gf670/index.html
but they are £1700 ... the blad 500c/m, 80mm, prism and back set me back £500 + £150 for a service ... for that hypothetical left over grand I could afford the 50mm cf and 150mm cf ...
A mamiya 6 was another option, and still is one day i think ... plaubel makina 67 was also considered (for the highly regarded nikon lens and size i was willing to go 6x7) ... but both a significant chunk more than the hasselblad!
It eventually became clear that if i wanted a square format camera the blad was actually one of the cheaper options!
admittedly I could have gone down the pentacon 6 road, cheaper lenses etc or even the kiev road ... but eventually the lure of Carl and Victor won :)

[The Vinyl Adventure]

I used an R72 filter for my infra red work and no, I really don't rate SFX200 at all. It is not really an infra red film it is a surveillance film. One of the best infra red films at the moment is the one made by Rollei.

could you point me in the right direction ...

[Haselsh1]

could you point me in the right direction ...

Try this for size:

http://www.ag-photographic.co.uk/rollei-infrared-400-35mm-36-830-p.asp

[The Vinyl Adventure]

nice one... just need to dig out that r72 filter and see if i can work a way to fix it to the blad ..

[Haselsh1]

nice one... just need to dig out that r72 filter and see if i can work a way to fix it to the blad ..

That's easy; check out ebay. Hasselblad B60 to 62mm bayonet adapter ring. Should be a couple of quid from China.

[Mark Grant]

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APPROACH MARKER, RAF Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, 1997



Beautiful set of pictures.

I recognised that approach marker and found a photo on my hard drives from winter 2004 when we went to see the grey seals and pups on the sandbanks at Donna Nook.

It's a dull picture as it was a dull day and its not had any photoshop.

http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx234/server9/donn-nook-CRW_5297.jpg

Seeing your pictures reminds me that I have not been to Donna Nook or castle Howard for years....must have some days out this year....

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Nice one Shaun, just ordered one...

[Ashmore]

The D70 is also easy to convert to infra red. It takes about half an hour, then you can use it like a normal camera - no need for filters or long exposures. You can also adjust the autofocus point to remove the guesswork.

Film can have wonderful quality, but so can digital. They are just different and the most part digital is far easier to use.

[Haselsh1]

The D70 is also easy to convert to infra red. It takes about half an hour, then you can use it like a normal camera - no need for filters or long exposures. You can also adjust the autofocus point to remove the guesswork.

Film can have wonderful quality, but so can digital. They are just different and the most part digital is far easier to use.

That has always been my point when comparing traditional photography with digital photography. Digital photography is amazingly convenient but then I have never been involved with photography just because it was convenient. I grew up to be an industrial chemist but the interest in photography was always there because of the chemistry. Traditional photography is incredibly difficult if done properly and therein lies its attraction. It will never be merely convenient.

[Ashmore]

Fair enough. I have fond memories of mixing up batches of d76, loading film onto spindles, working in the darkroom, trying to get fibre based paper to dry flat... I'm not knocking it - these are wonderful but largely lost arts. But however we enjoy the process, it's the statement that matters - as with all art...