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06/17/2004 Entry: "Gunpowder Park on a cloudy day"

I was a little worried about my planned trip to Gunpowder Park when some rain started spitting on the windshield as I headed up the highway from work. The clouds never cleared but the rain held off as I neared the park. It was a typical Baltimore summer day, hot, humid, and a gray haze blocking the sun. Hardly prime conditions for infrared photography but you have to work with what you have. It was a good chance to experiment with how well my camera meter reads IR in dim forest light. [note to self: next time in these conditions, try exposing at 800 or 1600 and increase development time] It was a very low contrast situation to start with and the shadows in the woods fooled me into a bit of overexposure. The negs look pretty muddy but I hope there'll be some I can pull some information from.

The light was so low that even the digital was pushing the limits of handheld work. I did manage to hold steady enough for a shot or two of a pensive Potameide, a nymph of rivers and streams.

Looks like I'll be busy in the darkroom when I get back from the beach. Still some frames to print form the rainy trip to Kilgore Falls, getting started on these two rolls of IR, plus whatever havoc I manage to create at the ocean.

Posted by Marion @ 06/18/2004 06:56 AM ET