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Infrared Landscape Photography

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There seems to be little content here. Some nice images, but I didn't learn any how-to from the techniques. This is another guide to lucky dice-rolls with infrared.

Infrared photography is ripe for somebody to come along and codify it. It's a very confusing subject for a number of reasons. For one, the various infrared films have different sensitivities to infrared. For another, there are no commercially produced infrared meters. Between the two, almost all infrared texts give vague advice on exposure, development, film speed rating, and every other aspect of photography. Very few people are willing to give prescriptive advice.
That said some people produce beautiful images with huge tonal scales and refined highlights, so it must be doable and it keeps aspiring IR photographers searching for a master to reveal the techniques and simplify the form. Todd Damiano is not one of these people.
Every shot in this book has blown highlights and blocked shadows. They look like they were printed on an unmodified inkjet. They are flat and lifeless and the text is fairly generic and not at all specified to the subject. In fact the images are so bad, I went and looked at other images to make sure I wasn't wrong about the possibilities of IR.
Not only would I not buy anything else by this author, I wouldn't by anything else from this press. You can find much better information and examples on the Web.

I was a little disappointed in both the images and text. The author/photographer could have done more with the landscapes he had to work with.

Good book on the almost lost art of infrared film photography. Infrared films from vaious manufacturers are summarized, explaining any differences between them. The author then walks through images and how the time of day, shadows, highlights and contrast, to name a few, influenced the outcome. This book was truly a learning experience with a wealth of helpful tips on one of the more popular aspects of the art.

Damiano has done an exceptional job in completely focusing in on the photography techniques at hand. Formal and complete descriptions make this a wonderful experience for any photographer.

a must for anyone who owns a camera, detailed informative book, fantastic images, extremely useful