Tree in IR

Some IR can be hash and in your face - not pleasant. These are vey good, Is there a way to get the overall glow that a good picture created with the long gone Kodak High speed IR.
That said, these almost have that quality, so well done
One of the last cassettes of the Kodak film I used (around 2000) gave results that were soft and dreamy like these, but I didn't use a red or opaque filter, but a deep orange one in a misty morning when I lived in Sussex, but still obviously IR.
 
John King said:
Some IR can be hash and in your face - not pleasant. These are vey good, Is there a way to get the overall glow that a good picture created with the long gone Kodak High speed IR.
That said, these almost have that quality, so well done
One of the last cassettes of the Kodak film I used (around 2000) gave results that were soft and dreamy like these, but I didn't use a red or opaque filter, but a deep orange one in a misty morning when I lived in Sussex, but still obviously IR.
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If there were some way to remove the anti-halation coating on conventional film, you'd see a similar glow. I see this in x-ray film used for conventional photography because it lacks the coating.
 
Quite! The antihalation has a lot of good things but if we could get rid of it. However the downside is if your camera has a dimples in the pressure plate like my Olympus OM2 had, the light passes through the film and rebounds back leaving the reverse pattern of the dimples on the film which unless you can scan and use PS you cannot get rid of it.
 
John King said:
Some IR can be hash and in your face - not pleasant. These are vey good, Is there a way to get the overall glow that a good picture created with the long gone Kodak High speed IR.
That said, these almost have that quality, so well done
One of the last cassettes of the Kodak film I used (around 2000) gave results that were soft and dreamy like these, but I didn't use a red or opaque filter, but a deep orange one in a misty morning when I lived in Sussex, but still obviously IR.
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Thanks John. The way I am doing it is using a very old compact that only shoots Jpegs. I shoot to keep the highlights and then adjust the levels to get the contrast I like. Add some Gaussian Blur and adjust the amount to taste. Dodge and Burn as required and the tone using duotones. I am trying a few different tones at the moment. I think I still have an old roll of Kodak IR film in the freezer I always seemed to over develop IR film it's a lot less problematic in digital....
 
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