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lulalake · 08:14 PM

For the last few months I’ve been involved in a musical show production, the title of which is the title of this post. Long story there, basically A fellow named Russ Marlette and I wrote the show. It was produced a few years ago in community theater to very good reviews.(It’s a total comedy, farce, melodrama)

Russ and his wife Shirley decided to start their own theater company and they chose this musical as their first show, drafting me (again)

to be the musical director. We wrapped last night after a month’s run and once again it went very well.

I haven’t been shooting much at all over that period but took my IR converted 40D down to the play last night and got a few shots.

These are the lead players:

The Character’s name is Travis Beauregard Crockett (Perry Redden), a Texas Ranger that carries three pistols and a rifle!

Sugar Sprinkle Smith (Michelle Piersol) is a young cowgirl (A goat girl actually as she runs a goat ranch) whose father has just died and she has inherited the ranch. Evil people (a banker with a degree in law and his vixen of a wife) are trying to steal her ranch. Muahahahahaha

She is verrry protective of her ranch (and anyone who tries to get backstage for that matter.

Of course in the end Travis saves the day, catches the villain, marries the girl and they live happily ever after and gives me some more time to shoot pictures.

Cheers

Jules

(40D Clear Glass IR conversion, 85mm Jupiter-9 manual lens, R72 filter)

Casper · 05-01-2011, 10:02 PM

I like the IR result on skin, especially faces. Great job on the focus. I hope you have a few other photos of the young lady with her hair finished!

Steve

jerrykr · 05-02-2011, 08:36 AM

Nice photography Jules. Your IR faces are always very good!

Congrads on the successful show.

lulalake · 05-03-2011, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Casper

I like the IR result on skin, especially faces. Great job on the focus. I hope you have a few other photos of the young lady with her hair finished!

Steve

Thanks much Casper.
Unfortunately I have very few and she's on her way to Switzerland to complete her education so it'll be a while. (Also I do use the live view which is a focus daemon!)

Jules

lulalake · 05-03-2011, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jerrykr

Nice photography Jules. Your IR faces are always very good!

Congrads on the successful show.

Hey hey Jerry,

Thanks and good to hear from you. The show was really fun to do and there will probably be more coming up. I'll let you know. This one was sort of a proof-of-concept for the new production company so we didn't really advertise all that much.

Cheers

Jules

tc95 · 05-03-2011, 09:20 PM

Nice...it's good to see someone else shoot people in IR.... :D

Casper · 05-03-2011, 10:29 PM

Jules,

I use a converted D70 for near-IR and find that the focus point is a bit behind what the auto focus sets, even though the photo looks in focus through the view finder. I have to manually set the focus on any close up photo, like a face. So, I bracket the focus.

jerrykr · 05-04-2011, 12:50 PM

How do you have the camera set for focusing in live view?

My T3i hunts all over the place before it finally locks on.

someone on dpreview suggested setting "fast focus" (maybe not entirely right words), and it's quicker now. is that setting what you use?

thanx.

jerrykr · 05-04-2011, 12:52 PM

Casper, have you tried a small aperture, say f8 or f9 or smaller. more DOF, less OOF.

lulalake · 05-04-2011, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Casper

Jules,

I use a converted D70 for near-IR and find that the focus point is a bit behind what the auto focus sets, even though the photo looks in focus through the view finder. I have to manually set the focus on any close up photo, like a face. So, I bracket the focus.

Hi Casper,

I only have two AF lenses, one is a Canon 10-22 where focusing isn't all that critical and a Tamron 28-78 which is pretty dead on. I use manual focus lenses mostly including a few Zeiss, a few Takumars, a few Mamiya MF lenses, a few Russian lenses (which Rock!), a few Nikon enlarger lenses on bellows and a few large format lenses on bellows.

Here's a shot of my 30D using a Laac_Rathnow LF convertable lens.

All these lenses are pretty inexpensive save the Zeiss which are worth every penny.

Jules

Casper · 05-04-2011, 10:12 PM

I usually shoot f8 to f11. I have read that the change in focus is a quirk of the IR conversion. It is not a problem now that I know about it.

jerrykr · 05-05-2011, 02:31 PM

that is true, and the people who convert your camera can usually make an adjustment to match the lens you will use most frequently. For all other lenses, a small aperture usually gives you enough DOF to get around it.