Dan:
I looked at your shots and the color shifts were about what I
remembered from college and a few coffee table books. I think the
painted surfaces of the train components look to flat (IR seems to work
best with "live" subject matter, especially vegetation). My
cartographic and remote sensing background lets me picture IR appearance
from an aerial perspective more so than ground level. Perhaps a back
light subject like your slide #5, or one where the train is shot from up
high in the heavily vegetated backdrop (similar to Dave's Morrison, MO
shot).
Greg
Greg
> > In answering my question about APO glass Warren mentioned IR
> >setting, which in turn got me to wondering if any of you had tried to
>
> >experimenting with Infrared film on any of your railfan trips.
>
> I have used this film a lot over the years. The first thing I did was
> to
> find a scene with trees, water and anything else I could squeeze in.
> Using a
> tripod I began a series of test shots with many filters, 25, X-1, 47
> and
> others. One thing I found out is the color will shift considerably
> between a
> high shutter speed / low F stop vs low speed / high F stop. I used an
> ISO of
> 100 for the IR film. Once I had the results, I could see the filter
> and
> settings I wanted to give me a particular result.
>
> The film should be stored below 40F, in fact when I worked in a camera
>
> store, Kodak always shipped the file in dry ice. Since it's an E4
> process (I
> think it still is), Kodak will no longer process it. I have used Rocky
>
> Mountain Film Labs in Denver as they one of the few labs still running
> E4.
>
> I do like this file for artsy shots. It's great for conveying a
> "feeling" in
> some scenes. For trains... well it's not so good. I have uploaded a
> few
> shots to one of my servers if anyone wants to take a look.
>
> Go to: http://www.rrhistorical.com/temp/ There is an index of 5
> images.
>
> ir01.jpg shows the color shift of this GE leased unit and was taken
> just
> after sunset.
> ir02.jpg really shows the color shift and Chicago's blue Metra units
> turn
> dark red!
> ir03.jpg was taken without a filter. The only color shift here was the
> sky,
> but still very high contrast.
> ir04.jpg is with a 25 filter and is the "standard" of what you would
> expect
> from this film.
> ir05.jpg may be the best of this bunch as far as trying to give a feel
> to
> the image.
> ir06.jpg is again the standard 25 filter.
>
> If anyone wants to see other non rail images where the film is really
> nice,
> let me know.
>
> Dan
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