daniel flather

Editors' Picks: St. Patrick's Day Photography.

St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland.

Some people say there is too much contrast. I like my IR photo's with the contrast to the

max. I rate the film at ISO 10 with a 87C filter between the film rails and develop in

ID-11 for 8 minutes. IR can be done so many ways it's not funny. Some people like less

contrast some like more. The dodging, I admit is messy (in PS), but some detail was lost

when scanned on my $99 flatbed, my PS skills are lacking (for a better word). But it is all

personal taste and I do appreciate all types of comments, I can learn from them.

WOW!! I never thought I would be Photo of the week. I was blown A-way. Thanks for

all the nice comments. The black oval mark in the corner is a reflection from the pressure

plate in my old trusty Canon EF-M. I love to combine IR film with my fisheye lens. I like

this photo because at first glance people don't notice the fisheye distortion first, but rather

the image.

There is no detail in the horizon on the negative. The negative is on the thin side so no

matter how I exposed this or print it there was too much contrast in the scene.

Some more IR and fisheye. The skyline is totally blown out but that

happens at sunset

with HIE. Lots of IR "light". The horizon is in the middle of the

photo but I had to do

that in order not to curve the horizon with the fisheye lens, I hate

horizons in the middle

of the frame but I think it works here. Did I successfully brake the

rule or not, What do

you think???