I visited planet earth yesterday!

Scotty wrote:

These are really stunning! I see a lot of IR-type images, and not many get my attention, but these certainly did. I don't know if "IR" is quite what you did here, but it worked well, IMO.

Thanks, v.much, Scotty.

With most natural light work, I never feel the exposure is 100% satisfactory as to the overall balance of the exposure (if nothing else). So even when shooting JPG with a custom setup that’s mostly good, I still manage to want to work an image over. I falter from time to time, but always return to just RAW. Control freak? Me?

Anyways, 720nm IR gives more color to manipulate in a mono conversion (which I had in the past), but I went for the stronger 850nm infrared to see what it was like. A good ETTR exposure OOC is very disappointing, however. The whites appear all washed out, the rest is dull and somewhat hazy. But add some Dehaze (in LR terms) and it starts to take shape.

To keep this [cough] short, then a lot of general a localized adjustments are made to bring out as much detail as possible, separate the whites range, and polish it up. Love Fuji color, but I’ve always had an affinity for monochrome. IR gives a different interest (for me) on shooting foliage in a bright high sun. And, it provides something of what I previously used to get from shooting in the shadows and/or night in the city.

There’s various types of, and ways to convey infrared otherwise. I guess I blathered on out of appreciation for your interest. Oh. . . here’s a few out of camera RAW examples for reference (if THAT interested [g]):

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. With only LR Dehaze added to exposure. IR will do this lens flare thing significantly if sunlight even glances the front element (generally speaking).