Taking a break from posterisation, I decided to try out some ideas with the colour in Infra-red photography. As with a lot of my work it is experimenting to see what works and what doesn’t. First I will show my starting images: Full colour, infra-red monochrome and ‘full spectrum (includes infra-red)’ colour. They are all the same view centred on a tree across a green field:-
![](https://www.pmstudios.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/F24_3434-18-55-at-55mm-r1-600x400.jpg)
![](https://www.pmstudios.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/S24_0023-takumar-55mm-760nm-r1-600x400.jpg)
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My first attempts were blending the monochrome IR with the full colour infra-red deleting the blues, moving green to blue and red to green:
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My next attempt was using the normal colour image as a starting point with the monochrome infra-red becoming the new red channel:
![](https://www.pmstudios.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/F24_3434-18-55-at-55mm-r1-S24_0023-takumar-55mm-760nm-IR-in-red-channel-600x338.jpg)
The final version shown does, I think, hold promise. I shall think more about how to do this and do more experimenting…