Penshaw IR Pinhole

[johngrey]

Experimenting with IR film in my pinhole camera

Penshaw Monument, County Durham

6x9 back on a home made 40mm camera, ~f250
Rollei 400 IR 10 mins in bright sun
9 mins in HC-110 dilution B Attached files

[jon.oman]

Very nice image! IR suits it.

Jon

[earlj]

I read a couple of descriptions of this edifice - it is a peculiarly English construction, it seems to me. Americans would build something like this in Las Vegas or Wisconsin Dells amusement park, but not in a spot where it is expected to be taken seriously. Your image makes it look much more like a toy than like a grandiose tribute to a man's inflated sense of his own worth.

I am sorry if I have this all wrong. I don't mean to say that Americans do not make silly and self righteous monuments. I just think that this one tastes English to me.

[johngrey]

I'm sure you are right. I don't suppose there were many people around in 1844 willing to tell tell Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry that this was a bit over the top - he did own large chunks of County Durham and the coal beneath it.

[Jimmy G]

Great image John. What filter did you use? Red?
I have some rollei ir400 and i'd like to give it a try. Seems like you've homed in on the right exposure.

[DocNelson]

Cool image! I like the way the building's black. It'd be nice to see one taken a bit closer.

[johngrey]

Great image John. What filter did you use? Red?
I have some rollei ir400 and i'd like to give it a try. Seems like you've homed in on the right exposure.

thanks, it was with an R72 filter. This needed much more exposure than the 5 stops compensation suggested in most places. This was taken at a little over 10 stops more than the meter suggested without the filter - probably some reciprocity failure here as well. Another exposure at +8 stops (2 min) was just about printable. +6 stops (30s) was well underexposed.

[MartinS]

Impressive!

[Jimmy G]

Thanks for the helpful info on the exposure John!

[bambooflyrod]

That's very good John. Keep meaning to go up there myself sometime. Just never get around to it.