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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Large format likes
Doing slit scan photography has thrust me back into the world of large-format picture taking, a world that I once knew well. It’s also forced me to confront the pleasures and pains of using a scanning back, but that’s a discussion for another post. Some aspects of large-format photography haven’t changed much over the years,… [Read More]
More contrails
Infrared slit scan. About a 20 minute exposure with a 75mm lens.
Timescapes: IR clouds
Today I went looking for contrails with the slit scan camera and a filter that passes only infrared. The air traffic controllers didn’t provide the contrails, but I did get this image, which reminds me of astrophotographic images of nebulae. It looks like it could be a cloud close-up, but the real scale is… [Read More]
Contrails
Yesterday, the sky being close to bald, I made some slit scans of contrails. This was the most successful. With slit scans, all moving objects appear to travel opposite to the scanning direction, which is why all the planes appear to be flying from left to right.
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