Alone on Stilts

A man after my own ‘art! – I have used the same technique on most of my images. I love Infrared.

I am another fan of infrared. Love it when it’s well done. And this is a very fine example. Well done.

Many thanks Jeff, Bruce and Margo. The great thing about IR film is that you never quite know what you`re gonna get. Something has to make up for those lost hours locked in a dark closet changing film reels!

I’ve never played with IR film, I’m too impatient! Love the result you’ve gotten here though billy!!!

This is incredible I WILL HAVE TO LEARN THAT!WOW

What stunning work! Love the tones…so brooding and lonely! I love it…well done!

Many thanks Mel, micmac and Penny!!

This is a great shot – love the infra red effect!

What a fantastic result. I have just started to experiment with IR…but only with a filter. What an amazing process you have used to get this image. Stunning.

Thanks Lisa and Naomi. Using IR film is a dying art, mainly because it’s getting really hard to find someone to develop it properly as it is so sensitive to any kind of light. One day I’ll try using a filter on a digital camera.

Cool image.

My eyes return to this shot again and again.

Wonderful IR capture. Great contrast, tonal range and comp.

Many thanks Helen, MtnMan and Eyal!

The atmosphere is amazing in this one. Looks like it could be tropics, snow or some other world.

Just read in your journal that you sold this…can see why, it’s awesome, love the balance of the dark sky with the dark pool of water and all the white in-between. the house looks like it could be a space-ship just landed. Dramatic and beautiful!

I just love this IR work….very eye catching

Great IR image. Very crisp.

great infrared..

stunning

Gorgeous, i love the mood on this.

I love how the infrared makes it look like a scene out of sci-fi. But the original shot had to have “strong bones” in order to accomplish the fantasy effect. Great work, BB.

Hey Greg, what time is it out there? I guess there`s a 10 hour difference, so before 11PM? The original shot was actually on infrared film, so there was no processing involved except by the guy who developed the neg. That was the fun of infrared before the digital era… you never knew what you were going to get so you bracketed your shots like crazy. I did 5 different exposures of this and all the otheres failed because that wacko film had such a narrow tolerance. If you didn`t get it spot on, the results were either lacking detail in the shadows or totally blown out in the highlights. It was also difficult to work with because it was so sensitive you had to change reels in a totally dark room… even red light, including the infrared film counter on my EOS 100 fogged it immediately. I used a manual wind range-finder camera for my IR stuff. I may get into infra red filtering once I get my 5D, but it`s not the real thing so I don`t know if I`ll be enthousiastic enough to try it. Thanks for your interest!

this is quite beautiful

This is still one of my favorites! It is eerily inviting and it makes me want to walk through it.

gorgeous pic… let’s go! Just have to keep an eye out for gators.

Amazing infrared image!

Gorgeous! WOW…. Just beautiful… This is one of my faves! GREAT WORK!!!

hey billy this is wonderful…. very Jetsons somehow

maestro shot

see it’s this intense talk about film none the less…ahhh you are so damn fine.

I haven’t got to the shot.. it was so beautiful I wondered if it was infrarred.. and then I got caught up in the point that this was film!! I know nothing about film!! I was talking to a photographer.. she takes alot of wedding shots and met her when I was working for a friend in catering.. well.. she told me about burn and dodge and I said you did that in the dark room.. as I thought that was a photoshop term.. and wow we talked somemore.. and she said she does not do this dark room processing any more but… So all this convo came back as I listened to you here.. and yah.,, I hear you .. but the shot BB… well here is the crazy part.. I have always always always.. wanted a home on stilts in a hexagon shape.. I am not sure if this is a hexagon.. but.. .. ALWAYS… I do not know how I missed this ..but it stopped me dead in my tracks.. It is my home you have shot!! TIMELESS… SEASONLESS.. you don;t know if it is winter or what.. till you read florida.. not. and the river that runs though it.. has to be there because I do not live anywhere but by water of some kind.. All my life this is true.. till I lived in Phoenix.. where I went crazy…
The feeling that it is in the midddle of
nowhere is crazy too!

awesome work,

excellent work bb

Nice shot ! Looks great in b/w

Fantastic work

Congratulations