Monday, September 15, 2008

Playing with White Balance

Or better, I should say playing with the neutral point as part of the post processing after an IR shot. The fist picture being B&W does not require this type of adjustment, but I just showed it for comparison.

Now, when we start venturing into the land of false color things can be a bit more complex. After all, we do not see infrared, so any color information is not real. Pretty much we choose what we like or what we find appealing.

It is all about choosing some pixels and deciding that those pixels will be the neutral reference based on our preferences.

All these three false color pictures have color information very similar to one another. Depending on the pixels that we choose the results may be totally useless. These are just three modes of pictures that I found acceptable.

Despite the overall change of color cast there are some colors that remain unchanged. At the very end, the color is not there so your choice is as good as mine.

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