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We’re back at my favourite derelict farmhouse on Weber Road near Pullman in the Palouse region of Washington state today. I posted a similar monochrome image a couple of weeks ago. This is a colour infra-red shot put through my newly polished workflow. After mucking around with IR images over the last couple of years, I’ve now figured out how to get the results I was originally looking for. The secret revolves around a few basic discoveries:

1. You have to take your time when shooting. Manual focusing via live-view is critical at least with my converted D5000.
2. It’s the red channel, stupid! Ignore the normal luminance histogram when judging the exposure because it’s likely to look great even when the IR image is completely overexposed. Use the RGB histogram and look only at the red curve.
3. There are no shortcuts in processing. I need to use Nikon ViewNX, Photoshop and Lightroom on every image.

For the technically inclined...

• Aperture: ƒ/16
• Camera: CORPORATION
• Focal length: 22mm
• ISO: 200
• Shutter speed: 1/60s

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