In case you are interested in material about Adams, IR or ND here is a way to pass the time. I received the following questions recently: ITEM 1 > I'm an Italian photographer, I graduated last year at Brescia Fine Arts > Academy where now I teach Fine Art Photography. With my teacher I did, until > two years ago, some photographic services with Infrared Film for art > diagnostics. Now we have to do them again, we tried with the same film, Kodak > High Speed Infrared HIE 135, but we didn't obtain anything, we can't see > behind the painting. We use also the same lamps at 3400K. I used Nikon > camera with 60mm Micro with IR Filter 093 B+W (Black) In Italy we don't have > the developer Kodak D19 because now is not imported and so I have to use > HC110. Perhaps this developer isn't good for infrared? Or I have to use a red > filter? The film is always the same? I don't know what I have to do. We will > grateful to you if you can help us. Thank you very much. Best regards. CF To receive by email a copy of the response to the above question proceed as follows: 1. prepare and email for: ritphoto@xxxxxxx 2. In the Subject line state: INFRARED 3. In message body say: send 4. send it ITEM 2 > I obtained a couple of neutral density eclipse filters that I would > like to try some very long exposures with as otherwise they'll go to waste. > They are so dense that it is impossible to meter TTL, so does anyone know > how many stops compensation a ND filter with an optical density of 5.4 > requires (I believe that an ND8 had a density of about 0.9). To receive by email a copy of the response to the above question proceed as follows: 1. prepare and email for: ritphoto@xxxxxxx 2. In the Subject line state: NEUTRAL 3. In message body say: send 4. send it ITEM 3 Finally, if you just want to read about some thoughts by Ansel Adams on the Inception of a Photograph you can also obtain this material as follows: To receive by email a copy of Adams' text regarding this topic proceed as follows: 1. prepare and email for: ritphoto@xxxxxxx 2. In the Subject line state: ADAMS 3. In message body say: send 4. send it cheerio, andy
