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Originally Posted by Bill Giles
What little fine art nude work that I have done in the studio has been with a single strip dome or window light cut to a slit by curtains. I have shot outdoor infrared nudes and indoor natural light infrared on High Speed Infrared film. I have shot a little digital infrared, but don't have a digital camera that is set up for infrared. The thing that I noticed about infrared film is a limited contrast range.
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Thanks, Bill. Good advice. Yes, the limited contrast can be inherent in many lighting environments. I found that is because the dynamic range of infrared exposure (at least with my camera) seems to stay in a compact range, often taking up only about 1/2 the space on a histogram. But I find that a good thing in some ways. It helps to prevent clipping on either end and a simple tweak in levels expands the range.
As I mentioned, I need to use ND to bring exposure times down so as to use OCF but have read ND doesn't really affect infrared. But that was read on the internet and you know how that goes - I will have to try it for myself. But that type of dilemma would also affect normal, non-infrared shooting in bright sunlight when there is a necessity to bring PC sync speeds down. I know my 5D craps out at 1/200. I'm doing the infrared with a 20D and offhand, don't know what the sync speed is there.
Your scrim idea is excellent! I never thought of it! Infrared is all about mood and drama. A black mesh or whatever in front of the camera might play into it rather well!