Digital Silver Imaging

I replaced my Canon G7 with a G10. Both are great cameras, excellent in manual and do great video. I didn’t want the G7 to sit around doing nothing so I had the 715 nm IR conversion done by our partner Precision Camera.

The 715 nm conversion I had done is a typical infrared Conversion. It blocks wavelengths shorter than 715nm and allows those longer than 715nm to go through. It is a true infrared filter that should primarily be used for B&W; photos, although very limited color infrared pictures are possible. Conversions performed with the 715nm filter are capable of rendering beautiful & rich B&W; images with a dramatic infrared look to them.

The other conversion – 665nm – is a specialized Infrared Conversion. It blocks Wavelengths shorter than 665nm and allows those longer than 665nm to go through. This conversion is especially well suited for color infrared photography because of its broader transmittance properties. With this conversion a more saturated color infrared image is possible. B&W; infrared is also possible with the 665nm although the results will not be as dramatic as the 715nm.

I really like the skin tone with the 715 nm conversion. It gives a smooth gray/silver tone.

Of course foliage looks great in IR.

If you’re considering what to do with your older digital camera, consider converting it to Infrared. Digital Silver Imaging is offering IR conversions through our partner, Precision Camera. They have chosen Digital Silver Imaging as their preferred lab partner to provide true black & white gelatin silver printing from the IR files.

For more information and pricing about digital camera infrared conversions, please click here.

We just received an order for this wonderful image from Boston Globe photographer, Bill Greene. Many of the images we print for the Boston Globe are of sports and other historical images. This one caught our eye for its classic black & white beauty. Greene captured this moment with natural light coming in from the window on the left. It’s images like these that remind us of how classic and timeless good black & white prints can be.

Brothers- 62 year old twins Greg and Gordon Stafford at their deer camp with Gordon’s 4 year old grandson Tristan. “If you couldn’t go to hunting camp there would have to be something drastically wrong,” says Gordon. “For Vermonters, deer camp is almost a necessity. It’s a vacation a family thing. Island Pond, VT.

To view this image, and other images at the Globe Store, click here and order your copy today.

Our building is on a busy street, but our first banner sign didn’t make it easy for people to find us or know anything about what we’re doing. So, we went through the small town bureaucracy of applying for a sign permit for the town of Belmont. Keith Gaffney, Jay’s brother, helped us design and construct a large sign that now hangs perpendicularly off the front of our building. The sign features the new Griffin Museum Gallery at Digital Silver Imaging.
Keith started to hang the sign just as the storm blew through the area. The high winds slowed him down for a few minutes, but he finished hanging it in the pouring rain just 30 mins before our gallery reception started at 6:00 PM!

Thanks to everyone that came out last night to our gallery reception with photographer Ron Rosenstock. Despite the heavy rain that started around 4:30, we had a great turnout for the event. This is our second opening and I am pleased with how successful the response has been for our gallery. We had well over 75 people during the evening. Dave’s Fresh Pasta of Sommerville provided us with some excellent hors d’hoeuvres and wines.


Ron spoke with many of the guests and had an opportunity to discuss his new work in digital infrared photography. The 11 gelatin silver fiber prints represent a new direction for Ron. He was a student of Minor White’s at MIT from 1967 – 1973. White did a lot of his work using Kodak 4×5 infrared film, but Ron did not start working with infrared until he converted a Canon digital camera to shoot in IR. “The ability to shoot IR digitally, without all the hassles of shooting it on film, gives me a new found freedom”, say Rosenstock. “The fact that I can then have them printed on one of my favorite black & white silver papers at DSI is a perfect match.”

To view all of the images in our gallery show, please click here. Images are all 17″ x 22″ and can be purchased for $650 matted or $750 framed. Please contact the gallery at info@digitalsilverimaging.com

For more information about digital camera infrared conversions, please click here

I traveled up to Maine yesterday to drop off my daughter at camp and then drove across on Route 17 to Rockport to meet with Kate Izor from the Maine Media Workshops. The workshops were in full swing and classes and enrollment were solid. Stan Grossfeld had given a presentation about his Pulitzer Prize winning work on Wednesday night. Photographers John Goodman and Zig Harvey were in the middle of a workshop as well.
It is great to see that this wonderful place that so many of us have visited is alive and well with some solid leadership and passionate people. Kate and I had a great meeting and discussed ideas for future workshops and collaborating together.

When I left I got to travel down the coast in search of a Lobstah roll.

I found Shaw’s, somewhere near Pemaquid Lighthouse. ZuZu, my faithful travel companion, kept looking for seagulls to chase, but had no luck. She’s a great a great car traveler and never once asked me to change the music!

As a kid growing up in Connecticut, I remember when Walter Cronkite came to our local junior high school in 1975 and shared with our class many of his favorite moments in his life. He recalled sitting with JFK in Hyannisport and his reporting on the Apollo mission.

This shot of these two great men is available at The Boston Globe Store – order your copy today!