Daisy Meadow

[Maris]

Daisy Meadow. Canberra, Infrared

Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.5cm X 24.6cm, from a 8x10 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Wollensak 159mm f9.5 lens and IR680 filter. Titled, signed, and stamped verso.

The Efke IR820 film was old and had lost much of its infrared sensitivity. Exposure was 12 minutes at f32.

[Walter Glover]

The stuff of enchantment Maris.

[RoganJosh]

12 minutes is brutal. Can't help but wonder how it would look if those flowers hadn't moved.

[Maris]

Subject movement, even over twelve minutes, can be a good thing or a bad thing. I was accepting that some flowers would move and others might remain quite still. The ones nearest the camera would show movement more. There might be a nice dynamic tension between movement and stillness. The hazard was that everything would move a bit and generate unfortunate optical pizza. I got lucky with this one; but only marginally.

[smbooth]

I like the movement it adds a extra dimension to the image. What was your estimated ISO for the old IR film Maris, i have some in the fridge.

[Maris]

The batch of 8x10 Efke IR820 I used had lost a lot of IR sensitivity and my Exposure Index through an IR680 filter was 0.07! That's ridiculously slow but I had the stuff on hand and it wasn't going to improve with more age. By way of comparison I shot a 120 roll of Efke IR820 through an IR720 filter yesterday and the negs look good at an EI = 1. I'm convinced that IR film is unstable even in cold storage and I do regular exposure tests to keep track of it as it slowly dies.