Jerry Carroll


  I'm from Boston Mass. I use a Minolta X-370n SLR. I've had the camera for a while but only really started using it creatively last year

Sunset 1
Sunset 2
Sunset 1 and 2 were taken on 2 July 2001 at approx. 7.00 pm. We had a thunderstorm and as it cleared the sky was just amazing. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Couldn't pass this opportunity up so I snapped away. I used a 55 mm lens and a skylight filter and a linear polarizing filter.

Devil & Angel was a pure accident and I've not been able to reproduce the effect again as much as I try.
 I used a self-timer for the shot. Again, the 55mm lens fitted with a 6x cross for the first exposure. For the second exposure I kept the 6x cross and also used a medium red filter. No flash was used for the shot. I like the ghostly effect I got. This was beginner's luck.

 These are semi-Infrared. Shot on Ilford SFX200 film. It is IR sensitive and gives a pretty neat effect even though it's not true IR film. You can see these look vastly different from normal B/W film. The sky is very surreal and there's parts of foliage that is ghostly white. This film lacks the ultra cool halos that Kodak's IR gives, but Kodak has true IR film, this is not.


Ilford SFX200 film, I used a Hoya  R72 and a B+W 091 filter. I was afraid where this is not true IR film that my Cokin red filter would not give any effect. That filter is LIGHT red by comparison to the ones I used. The B+W  is a real deep red and the Hoya  is almost totally opaque. I developed these myself using Ilford lfosol-S developer.

 Wasn't sure what I'd get, especially since the Hoya  was impossible to use TTL. Had to aim & focus without the Hoya filter then put it on once I got a frame. The B+W  filter is easy to see through on the lens.

Shutter speeds for the shots were between 1/4 and 1/15.

"Jerry"

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