Claret midnight (720nm IR)

I don't think I've shared this 720nm infrared development route on Flickr so far (maybe I'm wrong).

 

Anyway, so I have a ton of IR related presets, profiles and stuff in Lr, not because it works so well (it does not, every shot, panos in particular need to be dealt with individually) but cause I'm lazy and don't like repeating tasks over and over again (e.g. channel swap, basic WB manipulation etc.).

Not sure why, but I always give these somewhat descriptive yet weird/funny names, and this base preset is called 'claret midnight' cause it reminds me of old movies, like in a Western, they used to film during the day, then applied some wonky filter or whatever and just pretended it's actually night, with moonlight! 😝 Hilarious. Anyone remembering this?

I think the clouds are nice though, and before anybody asks: Yes, my legs are huge, fat and crooked, deal with it. 😜

I'm on some track through the thicket with nice late afternoon sun from the side/back, casting long shadows. Did I mention that I dig the clouds? Also the varied coloration of the bushes is interesting, I didn't apply any local adjustments etc., just global development settings, so this was "out there" so to speak, in the hidden infrared world, that's one of the things I like about it. 😊

 

 

Source for this is a 27 piece panorama (plus a few extra shots with me in it, sometimes that's fun), with a trimmed mercator projection yielding ~289MP, cropped to a weird square format with 15624px, ~244,1MP. Due to the ² format and Flickr's 'best display size', this lends itself to zooming in.

 

Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)

Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD

Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)

ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,4sec

(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)

tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)

Done