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    12. “Massage”. Waterfall in Egypt hotel “Sheraton”. This composition is good in colour as well but in IR-mode it looks unusual because the trees and mountains on the background can be seen; in visible range they are shaded with haze and mist spray. Automatic mode of shooting. Maximum set of filters.

    It’s sometimes difficult to tell IR-photographs from usual black-and-white pictures. But it’s only at first sight. For example, I have never seen before such ice which my Sony drew in Raif cloister (See photos 13-14).
 

    13. “Christening” from the photonovel about Raif cloister. Winter shooting in IR-range is in the same degree unpredictable in the beginning as the summer photographing. There was no hoar-frost that day. My Sony contrived it. It’s impossible to obtain such intricate combination of light and shade in the ice candlelight in standard modes of a camera. Automatic mode of shooting. Maximum set of filters.
 

    14. “Ice town” from the photonovel about Raif cloister. Automatic mode of shooting. Maximum set of filters.
The picture, shot in the bath-house where foster children from the cloister asylum were warmed up after swimming in Epiphany ice-hole, is also unusual: it was shot in back lighting, i.e. lighting pointed towards the camera lens. At shooting with a standard digital camera you could obtain well-developed shadows only with the help of intense and precisely dosed backlight; at that you would sacrifice such beautiful change of water spray blurred with long exposure, and gentle glare on the wet wooden floor. All these fine details contributed to the picture (See photo 15).