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Infrared radiation has some of the same properties as visible light. It can be focused and reflected like visible light and can be aligned and even polarized. Infrared film is sensitive to IR radiation, some ultraviolet radiation and to all of the wavelengths of visible light but is not as sensitive to green light.

,,,that’s how I made the window light portrait of Michelle Monroe at right. The portrait was made with a Canon EOS D60 (not 60D) and EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens with an available light exposure of 1/200 at f/5.6 and ISO 800.

Once upon a time I tried to include a  portrait of every model I photographed wearing a corset during every shoot including lighting equipment reviews that I wrote for the former print edition of Shutterbug. You may, or maybe not, be surprised to learn that they never published a single one of these photographs in the magazine.

In my post A Look at Canon’s A-Series Cameras. My Latest Ones is said, “All that’s now missing from my collection is an AT-1 but all of the models that I’ve found for sale, so far anyway, have been in rough shape. I can wait… The wait is over.

When I’m in a rut, I shoot monochrome images to help me get out of it. What I like to do to get out of a rut is shooting some  photographs in direct monochrome mode.

There was a time, seems like yesterday but wasn’t, when I asked models to brings a corset to one of our photo sessions.