With the introduction of the new Hyper Color Infrared, you now have the ability to create stunning IR images that do not require channel swapping. For many photographers, this means they can easily go straight from the camera with many images. In the past few months of experimenting with Hyper Color, I’ve also found a few easy ways to fine tune and change up a Hyper Color image.
Here’s a Hyper Color landscape, straight out of the camera.
Let’s change the look of foliage. For that, you just need to go to Hue/Saturation
Once under Hue/Saturation, click on the box marked Master and select Magenta. Then adjust the Hue slider to the right, and then adjust the saturation slider a bit to increase the saturation.
This is the result.
Want to go a bit further? Okay, go back to the Hue/Saturation slider.
This time take select the Yellow color and move the Hue slider to the left, and increase the saturation a bit more too. This is the result.
Now we have foliage that is all Red.
Wanna go in a different direction? Yeah, back to the Hue/Saturation slider
This time take the Red color tone and move the Hue Slider to the left, and add just a little Saturation.
Here’s the result.
Want to sky to pop more and look Blue. Go back to your Hue/Saturation slider. You knew I was going to say that, didn’t you?
Now select the Cyan color tone and move the slider slowly to the right until you see the sky become Blue, and might as well increase the saturation a bit too.
Here’s the result.
Now you have Yellow foliage and a blue sky.
Using this method, you can create all sorts of interesting looks.
Want your foliage to be green?
Simpy take your Magenta Hue slider far to the right.
All of these looks can be created quickly and easily just by using Hue/Saturation.
Hyper Color Infrared has quite a bit of possibilities without too much work.
Next time, we’ll look at how easy it is to make a Monochrome IR from a Hyper Color image.
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hi, I printed this out and followed it exactly and can’t get these results with my full spectrum camera and the hypercolor filter at all. I have a sony a7s and when I try to set a new white balance with a grey card it always gives me an error message. I do have the lavender trees to start with, but the other color settings don’t work. Is there a particular temperature setting for the white balance I can try so I get the exact colors you have, or do you know how to get around the a7s error messages? I read they commonly occur when setting the white balance but I didn’t see a solution for it. Thanks!
Hi J.C.,
One of the stranges things about the SONY cameras is that they give an error message even though they set the in camera white balance. To get good results in post production, you need to use the RAW editor made for your camera. That is the only way to get access to all of your RAW file. With SONY, that software is called Capture One express for SONY. Just Google it and there is a free download. Also, keep in mind when you are adjusting the Kelvin settings, that the Kelvin scale only applies to the natural color spectrum, and not to the Infrared spectrum. That is why using Camera RAW or worse yet, DNG profile will never come close to the results you’ll get from using the RAW editor made for your camera.
Hi- great tutorial. Can this filter mimic Kodak Aerochrome?
Thx
Hi Jeff,
Yes, if you work with the Magenta tones in the foliage, and Cyan tones in the sky in Photoshop, you can emulate the look of Aerechrome 1443
I sent my old Nikon D40 in last week for the Hyper Colir conversion and a Super Color screw on filter, so it will be a while before I get to try everything out. (I also have a Hoya 72 and Tiffen 89 A or B somewhere in my camera stuff which I haven’t used in years.) I was wondering if you had tried using any infrared screw on filters with your hyper color adjusted camera and what your results were like if you had.
Also, will there be any updates to the tutorial or quick start sections for hyper color?
I have shot my Hyper Color converted camera with other screw on filters, and they works just fine.
Thanks, for some reason, I did not set a custom WB.
Is the file a RAW or jpg? I just did a few test shots today and used Adobe Profile Editor in LR to get away from the red. I used auto white balance.
The test shots I made were shot in RAW. I set a Custom White Balance in the camera using foliage for a WB reference image. I then processed the RAW files using the RAW editor made for my camera, in this case Digital Photo Professional.