Awesome video! Love the contrast. I would love to see it in color as well.
As primarily a landscape, cityscape and architectural photographer, there are times when colors aren’t that interesting, a distraction from the overall composition. Infrared typically works well at times when normal photography wouldn’t look good, i.e, midday summer, harsh lighting, trees and landscape just shades of green. The colors in landscapes of Southern Italy are very muted; tans, grey-green, clay and muted tones of volcanic rock. It’s actually not great for full-spectrum infrared either. The beauty is often more in composition than color. Depending on the filter used, white balancing, channel swapping another techniques in Lightroom (or other RAW editor), you can make the foliage shades of pink, yellow, orange, or most common, bright white with blue sky (720nm filter). With low chroma colors, it’s hard to get bright colors in post or colors that can be differentiated.
Of course, I can still shoot normal color with a full-spectrum IR camera by using a Hot Mirror filter on the lens (Kolari also makes some that clip onto the sensor). I’d intended to shoot full color at golden hour, but nearly every day, cloud cover moved in blocking the sunset.
I’ve been shooting mostly infrared with my drones and Mirrorless cameras over the last year, but depending on the subject I’ll shoot normal as well.
Here are some examples of the commonly used 720nm filter. Radicepura Horticultural Park, Giarre, Sicily.
