I can’t say that Ilford SFX200 is one of my favourite films; it’s not even my favourite infrared film – that would be Rollei IR400, which sells for around half the price of SFX200 and produces a more pronounced IR effect. But I seem to have found myself with a few rolls in the freezer, and it’s not a bad film so I may as well get it used up.
So I loaded the film into my Yashicamat 124G and spent an hour at Seaton Delaval Hall, a local National Trust property. Being a sunny day – important for infrared photography – it was fairly popular with families so I had to select my viewpoints carefully and be patient to get images without a lot of people in the frame.
With a Hoya R72 filter and metered at ISO6
With a Hoya R72 filter and metered at ISO6
With no filter and metered at ISO200
For the last shot here, I took two shots with different exposures and then blended them in Photoshop – although to be honest the result was so close to one of the originals that it wasn’t worth the bother. The toning was added in Lightroom.
No filter
I wound up the trip with an overpriced ice-cream in the NT shop / cafe.
Tagged: analogue, film, ilford, medium-format, North of England, sfx200, Yashicamat
The third shot – the close up on the staircase – is very nice.
I’ve never been a fan of the white-trees look IR film brings, but your interior shots are fantastic. Especially the staircase close up. That one’s smashing.