Heat, Light, and the Great Outdoors

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This is a picture I took of my front yard with a roll of Kodak High-Speed Infrared (HIE). I used a Wratten #87c filter, which is the deepest IR you can get - it starts becoming transparent at 740 nanometers. Since HIE lacks an anti-halation backing, you get the blooming on highlights. The main thing about this film is that if you go for ultra-deep IR, it is G R A I N Y like you would not believe! We're talking grainier than Ilford Delta 3200, folks. Somehow, I horribly over-developed or over-exposed the entire roll (the instructions SAID ISO 25 in daylight + 11 min in ID-11!!!), but this one sort-of came out.

For reference, the trees are medium green, the house is bright yellow, the car is white, the septic tank cover in the lower-right is nearly black, the asphalt is light gray. If you look at the shadow of the car, you can see that most of the scene is in full sunlight.

Fire, Fire, Fire... Took this picture with Pan-F+. The camera was stopped down for an exposure of 1/15 sec, so you see the logs sitting there with fire leaping up.

I took this picture back in January when we were still getting rain in SoCal. As above, I stopped the aperature down to get an exposure to show reasonably fast motion. Here, too, the exposure was 1/15. The streaks are, of course, rain drops falling off the patio cover. The only problem here is that either I focused the camera poorly (hard to do with a 28mm lens) or the shutter jerked the whole thing, and the image can't be enlarged further than ~8x10.

This is a close zoom of a fascinating broad-leaf plant in my back yard. The roll of film was developed in D-76 diluted 1:3 rather than ID-11. As a result, the negatives had a level of contrast that could be easily printed. They weren't quite as fine-grained as negs from ID-11, but that's ok...

This is one of the pictures from a roll of Delta 3200 I shot in a new veterans plaza. I shot it at ISO 1600, but noticed no discernable difference in graininess versus @ 3200 - The grain is still extremely large.

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