James Markus wrote:
Glen, Shooting at 665nm with the 5D produces raw files with neon orange skies and light blue trees with Lifepixel's custom IR WB. So, my very first order of business (10 months ago) was to create a custom profile using Adobe's DNG Profile Editor v1.0.4. Most of the work I do is in the ACR ("Develop") module of LR before exporting the raw file (saving). There are many ways to get from point A to point B, and I have been enjoying seeing your journey through IR imaging.
Keep it up
Jim
Jim, I had my brief free tutorial yesterday with Lifepixel's resident expert (Dan Wampler), who taught me a new way to process the IR images. He converted the RAW file and set the white balance in a free program called "Capture One Express for Fujifilm," which, unlike Lightroom, work natively with files from Fuji cameras. He then created a TIFF file and opened it in Photoshop, where he applied "auto tone," "auto contrast," "auto color," and used the "channel mixer" to do a channel swap. He then used "selective color" (which can be used more than once per image) to create the desired false colour scheme for the image. This method resulted in more consistent and seemingly cleaner colours than the method I had been using, but my method often produced either more realistic colours, or some rather eccentric and unexpected colour variations (e.g. in a view of a forest across a lake, different trees---or even different branches on the same tree---will end up with very different colours. Dan also taught me a bit about how he processes black and white IR photos, but I haven't yet tried his method for this.
The first two images below show some of the eccentric colour variations I mentioned (please see the captions for the lenses used).
