Alone On Stilts
House on stilts near St. Augustine Fla.
Shot on Kodak high speed B/W infrared film with a Mamiya 35mm SLR with manual film advance... the infra red frame counter on my auto wind Canon EOS 100 would have fogged the film. 1/30 sec. at f16, with a red filter over the 50 mm lens. No post processing.
The cool thing about infrared film is that you never know what you’re gonna get. As infrared is exposed by heat from reflected surfaces rather than light, atmospheric conditions can actually alter exposure values, especially in the late summer heat of Florida, so you need to bracket like crazy. This was one of 5 bracketed shots.
Plus the fact that the smallest amount of light will immediately cloud the film, so changing reels needs to be done in a totally blackened room.
Though infrared filters on digital cameras give similar results such as making green foliage look like it’s covered with snow, the added charm of the actual film is the heavy grain due to the high speed sensitivity.
My infrared film was developed and printed by someone who did the job much better than I ever could have. I shot this around 1995 and I don't even know who would be able to process it these days. This upload is from the print scanned on an Epson V500 flatbed.