Friday night, I told David Bayles that I was working on photography about four hours a day, and that seemed to be the right amount of time for me. We got into a discussion of the work ethic of some photographers. David said that Brett Weston immediately processed his film upon returning from a photographic… [Read More]
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More slit scan infrared
Fog burning off yesterday around noon. 47mm lens, about 20 minute exposures.
Infrared cirrus
Last night, I made some infrared slit scan photographs of a spectacular high cirrus formation, using a 47mm lens and my new lens hood (see previous post). Time runs from right to left. Each exposure was about half an hour long.
Fighting flare in slit scan photographs
When they’re using film, view camera photographers don’t need lens hoods. They only need to shade the lens at the instant of exposure, and the perfect implement to do that is right at hand: the dark slide they just pulled out of the film holder. When you’re making slit scan images, where the exposures can… [Read More]
Filter frustration
The slit scan photography that I’m now doing requires that I use, at various times, three different filters: infrared pass, infrared block, and polarizing. The lenses I’m using for the series – 65 mm, 75 mm, 90 mm, 135 mm, and 210 mm – all take different filters. Some of the filters that I need… [Read More]
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