Advanced Infrared Photography Handbook

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Summary: Comprehensive and Concise
Review: Finally another work from Laurie White Hayball that further explores the science and art of infrared photography. Especially interesting and informative with cross comparisons of different infrared film stocks, filters, and qualities of varying light sources (hard, soft, bounce). A must read book in tandem with the original "Infrared Photography Handbook" by Laurie White. Increases the range and scope of understanding applied techniques helpful to experienced photographers. Visualizing color scenes in infrared and the comparison photos is a great guide. From Alaska to Antarctica, from San Francisco to Paris to Pompeii this book displays the range of infrared photography like no other. A serious book for photographers interested in serious information. Gives information and inspiration for others to explore the art form of infrared photography in their own style.

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Summary: DISAPPOINTING TEXT AND PHOTOS
Review: I thought Laurie White's first book on infrared photography was a must for anyone interested in IR. This new effort does expand the scope of the first book, but fails to go into needed depth where it is crucial. For instance, exposure - it is barely covered and offers no constructive place to start for different lighting conditions. And what is the point of listing alternative developers if you don't include development times & temps. Too bad.

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Summary: Huge disappointment
Review: I thought Laurie White's first book on infrared photography was a must for anyone interested in IR. This new effort does expand the scope of the first book, but fails to go into needed depth where it is crucial. For instance, exposure - it is barely covered and offers no constructive place to start for different lighting conditions. And what is the point of listing alternative developers if you don't include development times & temps. Too bad.

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Summary: DISAPPOINTING TEXT AND PHOTOS
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. The author is just basically rehashing information from her previous book.This book is simply redundant. It does not do anything to help a photographer working with infrared acheive anything that he or she couldn't do by reading other and better infrared books out on the market today.The idea of visualizing a scene in infrared has been written about before, as has just about everything in this book. Save your money and look for other better books on the subject.

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Summary: What an excellent book
Review: In thi book Laurie White rounds up what she started in her first one. It is pretty technical and for someone like me it is grate. I didn't find a nother place with this much information on this film. She also shows color pictures so one can learn to see infrared in diferent scenes. Really helpful

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Summary: The word Advanced means introduction in this book
Review: The book is short, deals only with Black & white, no mention of E6 Infra red material. It is written in a large font with 1.5 lines spacing, It also has lots of Photos to bulk it up.
It is a good introduction but don't expect anything too technical or advanced.

It takes around 3 Hours to read from Cover to Cover. From that i gained 3 facts 1) Agfa make a IR Film; no sample photographs just the mention it is only availabe in selected areas. 2)The Waston Master based on Selenium is better than meters based on Silicon Blue Cells, but of course braket your exposures. 3) You can check a digtal camera for IR sensitivity by looking at a tv remote control on the LCD display, as the remote is operated. There were no samples of IR pictures taken with digital Cameras.

The book was well laid out & was very readable but was in no way advanced or technical.

The development section was weak. I would have expected the writer own methods to be discussed & suggestions for different temes/temperatures/dilutions to have be done. The problem of the weak image was ignored, often you get a weak image with IR photography:- poor metering, poor development, wrong IR Filter.
The Section on lighting for portaits was far too long, & could have being replaced in part with a section on E6 IR Photograhy or a history of IR photography or Digital IR photography, or with a piece on skin colour & IR. Hard lighting on Kodak HS vs Ilford SFX200, vs Konica 750nm, is okay but in an Advanced book you are not expecting compleate chapters missing.

If you buy this book as a advanced text you will want another book, buts its okay as an introduction.

Rating:
Summary: The word Advanced means introduction in this book
Review: The book is short, deals only with Black & white, no mention of E6 Infra red material. It is written in a large font with 1.5 lines spacing, It also has lots of Photos to bulk it up.
It is a good introduction but don't expect anything too technical or advanced.

It takes around 3 Hours to read from Cover to Cover. From that i gained 3 facts 1) Agfa make a IR Film; no sample photographs just the mention it is only availabe in selected areas. 2)The Waston Master based on Selenium is better than meters based on Silicon Blue Cells, but of course braket your exposures. 3) You can check a digtal camera for IR sensitivity by looking at a tv remote control on the LCD display, as the remote is operated. There were no samples of IR pictures taken with digital Cameras.

The book was well laid out & was very readable but was in no way advanced or technical.

The development section was weak. I would have expected the writer own methods to be discussed & suggestions for different temes/temperatures/dilutions to have be done. The problem of the weak image was ignored, often you get a weak image with IR photography:- poor metering, poor development, wrong IR Filter.
The Section on lighting for portaits was far too long, & could have being replaced in part with a section on E6 IR Photograhy or a history of IR photography or Digital IR photography, or with a piece on skin colour & IR. Hard lighting on Kodak HS vs Ilford SFX200, vs Konica 750nm, is okay but in an Advanced book you are not expecting compleate chapters missing.

If you buy this book as a advanced text you will want another book, buts its okay as an introduction.

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Summary: Taking the guess work out of IR photography
Review: This book goes well beyond her previous book in explaining why
and how IR photography works. If you want to shoot IR, even
if you are well experienced, you will still learn a lot from
this book.

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Summary: UNIMAGINITIVE AND UNINSPIRED
Review: This book is just not needed by anyone shooting infrared photos. Right from the start, the cover photo is a giveaway that the photos contained in the book are not creative in the least! Poor composition and no imagination used to shoot the images. If the author is explaining how to visualize how a scene will look in infrared, then why choose as poor a subject as penguins in the snow to shoot with infrared! The other useless information includes shooting infrared with a pinhole camera? How arcane is that? Also, there is a section on developing infrared sensitive eyes? Give me a break. Steer clear of this book. A waste of time and money.

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Summary: NOT WORTH THE TIME OR MONEY
Review: Very big disappointment! This text offers nothing new or advanced that isn't covered in other, better texts on infrared photography. The photos that illustrate the book are pedestrian and misleading at best. Not a very good effort in writing or shooting at all.Steer clear of this book.