The magic touch of infrared: I was always fascinated by the infrared pictures I could see and wanted to try by myself. I put a roll of Efke 820ir in my Rolleiflex Automat, took a tripod and went shooting in a beautiful park full of trees and with a great sun!
The magic touch of infrared: I was always fascinated by the infrared pictures I could see and wanted to try by myself. I put a roll of Efke 820ir in my Rolleiflex Automat, took a tripod and went shooting in a beautiful park full of trees and with a great sun!
I knew that for infrared shooting there’s a need to put a dark red filter on the lens and have a tripod for long exposure times. So I measured the light at 25 asa (without the filter) and shot always around 3-5 seconds. I developped it at 100 asa value and when I saw the pics, I found them great, even if there wasn’t the “magic” infrared" effect of white trees and black sky… I asked myself what I did wrong and noticed that my red filter wasn’t dark enough to filter the normal colors and have only infrared ones…
But even if it was more b&w as real infrared, the shots had something special what you can’t have with a normal b&w film…. Deep contrast, great depth of field ans a kind of special mood, that’s the Efke 820ir with a normal red filter…
So I bought a infrared filter (Hoya R72) and I will try again to have this magical infared shots….
8 comments
mephisto19
such a beautiful gallery!
jazzgohan
cool post, curious to try this film!
azurblue
The gardens of Cimiez are wonderfull like this.
With the suitable filter, it'll be pure magic !
vicuna
The next roll will be made with a real infrared filter! And I'll keep you informed! :))
superlighter
now I understand how IR film works!
a great gallery from a great lomographer and friend!
Bravo Stèphane!
swieconek
Sans le R72, c'est comme manger du pain sans beurre...
vicuna
@swieconek: c'est vrai..... mais du bon pain peut aussi se manger sans beurre... ;))
mephisto19
my ir-filter arrived. will we have the chance to add shots here?