{"id":8465,"date":"2024-03-18T16:47:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2024-03-18T16:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:47:23","slug":"manipulating-colour-for-ir-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8465","title":{"rendered":"Manipulating colour for IR images"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&#8217;t. First I will show my starting images: Full colour, infra-red monochrome and &#8216;full spectrum (includes infra-red)&#8217; colour. They are all the same view centred on a tree across a  green field:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/F24_3434-18-55-at-55mm-r1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/F24_3434-18-55-at-55mm-r1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/F24_3434-18-55-at-55mm-r1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/F24_3434-18-55-at-55mm-r1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/F24_3434-18-55-at-55mm-r1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/F24_3434-18-55-at-55mm-r1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Normal full colour with bare trees and a green crop growing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0023-takumar-55mm-760nm-r1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0023-takumar-55mm-760nm-r1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0023-takumar-55mm-760nm-r1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0023-takumar-55mm-760nm-r1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0023-takumar-55mm-760nm-r1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0023-takumar-55mm-760nm-r1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Monochrome infra-red using a 760nm filter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filterr-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filterr-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filterr-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filterr-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filterr-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filterr-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Full spectrum colour including infra-red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v1-120-hue-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v1-120-hue-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v1-120-hue-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v1-120-hue-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v1-120-hue-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v1-120-hue.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Version 1, very poor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v2-120-hue-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v2-120-hue-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v2-120-hue-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v2-120-hue-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v2-120-hue-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/S24_0024-takumar-55mm-no-filter-colour-swap-IR-2-v2-120-hue.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Version 2, also poor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My next attempt was using the normal colour image as a starting point with the monochrome infra-red becoming the new red channel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"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\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8471\" srcset=\"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 600w, 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-300x169.jpg 300w, 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-150x84.jpg 150w, 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-768x432.jpg 768w, 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.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This version is better but still not good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The final version shown does, I think, hold promise. I shall think more about how to do this and do more experimenting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t. First I will show my starting images: Full colour, infra-red monochrome and &#8216;full spectrum (includes infra-red)&#8217; colour. They are all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Manipulating colour for IR images&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,100,3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infra-red","category-photo-effects","category-photography","category-tests-and-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}