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Tricky White Balance in Infrared Photography

How do you set a white balance in your infrared images when there are no color-neutral subjects? This video walks through setting a white balance manually and using the Histogram to help set a good white balance.

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Mastering Infrared Photography in Lightroom CLASSIC Course

The Mastering Infrared Photography in Lightroom CLASSIC Course will drop later this month (August). You can learn more about this course or pre-order now.

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Rob Shea

Learn infrared photography with video tutorials, photo shooting and editing guides, tips, tricks, raw editor reviews, and product reviews. Get free downloads to help you to process infrared images. Learn new techniques to simplify the complex editing workflow for color infrared images in Adobe Lightroom and other raw editors. Rob wrote the book on infrared photography, a definitive guide for photographers new to and experienced with infrared photography. Sign up for the newsletter! You can see the prior newsletters below.

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