Induced Halation

I saw some fashion photography some time ago (Paolo Roversi?) that featured what appeared to be halation in the background trees and elsewhere. I thought it was very beautiful. I wonder if anyone know how that effect might be created?

Roversi often uses light painting & blur.

btw did you ever try IR arthur?

1. Any chance it could have been an IR film image? A good part of their characteristic look comes from the fact that IR films don't have an anti-halation coating.
   E.g.:
   Kodak High Speed Infrared Film or
   http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00L/00Lvei-37540884.jpg
   Tom M
    
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2. arthur_gottschalk
   Yikes! Tom, you may be right. Could easily have been infrared. I wonder what it would look like without using the red filter-- would you still get the halation effect?
   

Edited December 11, 2020 by inoneeye

Anti-halation backing - Wikipedia

 

has details and methods of creating

Roversi often uses light painting & blur.

btw did you ever try IR arthur?

1. Any chance it could have been an IR film image? A good part of their characteristic look comes from the fact that IR films don't have an anti-halation coating.
   E.g.:
   Kodak High Speed Infrared Film or
   http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00L/00Lvei-37540884.jpg
   Tom M
    
   tom_mann|1, Oct 21, 2011Report
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2. arthur_gottschalk
   Yikes! Tom, you may be right. Could easily have been infrared. I wonder what it would look like without using the red filter-- would you still get the halation effect?
   

That must have been another Arthur Gottschalk. No wait, now I remember. Thanks.

Do you have an example from Roversi or other ?

All of the effects (in online examples) look as if they've been created in printing, not in camera.

 

Some have a halo shadow from placing the subject close to a hand-painted backdrop.

 

Film halation? I see none.

All of the effects (in online examples) look as if they've been created in printing, not in camera.

 

Paolo Roversi

Until the well dried up he often used large format polaroids, some real classics. Aside from that his creative lighting techniques can be quite unique. Without seeing an example of what arthur has in mind it is hard to say if in fact it is halation that he remembers.

 

Edited December 15, 2020 by inoneeye

That light-painting technique makes sense. Easy enough to do today with powerful LED flashlights.

 

It also explains the partial blur, where the model didn't hold the pose.

 

I have some shots of part-wilted flowers somewhere that I lit by light-painting. It did give a 'soft-yet-hard' appearance that's difficult to define.

Some legacy lenses produce Halation when shot wide open ?

Can't remember when or where I saw these pictures, but it was a while ago. . They were fashion shots outdoors and showed a sort of lacy, fringing effect in B&W.

If there is still some around get a few rolls of PolyPan F. It has no antihalation backing. Particularly unsuited to new cameras with highly polished film presure plates.

I dedicated a FED2 to this film by putting roll film paper over the plate and it works fine.