Secret to Colors that POP in Infrared Photography 

In my traditional remedial, painfully slow learning curve with this skill set of photography I’m not in the slightest discouraged … this will be a game changer for me when I am able to He fluent in what you are teaching in this video rob ! It’s a huge piece of the fun puzzle in my IR photo obsesssion … if I could only quicken my initial learning abilities ,.. once things click they click f… thank you for the priceless lesson in this vid … learning to have more dynamic control over my image and being able to contextualize not just the solution, but to understand the deficiency is beyond cathartic for an obsessive maniaic like myself lol … watched your IR chrome vid 20 mins ago and was very briefly tempted to ask if a non converted cam could some how bend itself to the new pack you created lol … time to act acrodingly .. not having a converted IR cam is volunteering for suffering

Wow this is incredible. You’ve got quite a lot of knowledge on color theory. This is huge. Thanks

Rob! This is a great idea! This opens so many possibilities!

incredible Rob incredible

Hi Rob, Thank you so much for this video. It's a fantastic technique!

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that additive colour theory can be used to mute unwanted colours like in painting but... I hadn't even thought about that before. You're really smart, and have thought a lot about your craft.

That’s brilliant! Thanks for sharing! 👍🏼

Thanks for the video, especially the segments on darktable and Raw Therapee. Those programs have so many possible adjustments it's hard to determine just where to start.

wow that's so cool! thank you, will come in handy

Fantastic

Perfect- Τέλειο!!!!!

Hi Rob, You invited us to suggest topics for coming episodes in this video, so I thought that I would do just that. First, I want to acknowledge the work you have already done! In a short amount of time, you have covered the basic and beyond of color infrared photography in a way that is more comprehensive and much better thought out and executed than any other RU-vid channel I am aware of. Since you seem to have covered the foundation so well, I thought that perhaps it could be an idea to begin to give attention to what can be done, when things don’t quite as well as we would like. Perhaps even help us recognize situations where there isn’t a known solution. Let me give an example of an issue that occurs quite often for me: Sometimes I find it difficult to get a color separation that is as clean as I would like. Here is what I mean: In color IR you generally end up with two families of hue, perhaps in the blue/teal family and in the yellow/orange family. My problem then is that the two groups aren’t as cleanly separated as I would like. For instance, the sky isn’t just blue/teal, it has faint ‘spots’ from the yellow/orange family. When you zoom into 100% you see spots that look a bit like color noise of the opposing hue family, only on a much longer length scale than normal color noise. I also think of this phenomenon as color cross-contamination. A thought I have about this, is that good color separation depends a lot on choosing a white balance that supports you in achieving the color separation you want. If this is true, it would seem reasonable that one can run into problems with color separation when e.g part of the scene is lit by sunlight, and another part is in shadow, effectively lighting our scene with lights of different color temperatues. My current strategies for dealing with inadequate color separation, isn’t as effective as I would like, but this is what I have tried (in Lightroom): First find the best possible white balance, for the LUT/profile-based swap method chosen. Then, where color-cross contamination is disturbing, I may try to select the area where it is occurring with a local adjustment tool, target the offending color with the color range tool, and shift it’s hue out of the offending region. Generally, I have not found this to work well, although I do not understand why. Another approach I have tried is to desaturate the offending hue instead of trying to shift it, once it is selected with a local adjustment + color range, and optionally apply the desired color as an overlay within the local adjustment. This has worked better for me than the hue shift approach: This was a very long way to suggest that you discuss what we can do to avoid the problem of color cross-contamination, and what we can do about it, when it occurs. But I felt it was probably necessary to explain what I meant by this :-)

this is fantastic video.. just a couple of days ago i got a 720nm filter for my z6, and i was not able to post process as desired in photo shop. will try these steps now and see

Thank you so much for your informative tutorials. I would like to ask you why can't I stay in camera raw and PS instead going to LR with all your IR editing . Thank you.

What's the name of the music played in the background? I think I've heard it before in Cities: Skylines.

Hi thanks again for all your help and training.I just converted a Point and Shoot to IR problem is it only records in JPG,So how would you create a profile.

I'm glad I found your channel. Watched a couple of your videos and I think my editing has become a lot better. So far I've mainly used an older version of Photoshop. Don't have lightroom, but I'm considering trying out darkroom I still find that some IR photos are harder to edit than others. I also find pics I've taken with the r25a filter harder to edit. Often resort to auto adjustment. Is it a good idea to make a different camera profile for each filter type?

Very interested in how to cross the channel in ACR or Lightroom

Hi Rob, I came across a couple of articles by Bob Visneshi on Photographylife.com where he applies some 'unorthodox' tricks to get more color out of IR images. Firstly he doesn't necessarily use the standard channel swap, but rather suggest one that also involves the green channel. And secondly, he makes heavy use of the camera calibration tab, which can produce dramatic results (that are diffuicult to predict). I have experimented a bit with these methods, and at the moment I see them as just a couple of more things one can play around with. Link: photographylife.com/infrared-photography-720nm-filter