This is the fourth in a series describing a basic infrared workflow. This section briefly describes post processing develop adjustments with Adobe Lightroom.

How many times have you heard stop wasting your time and get it right in the camera? How about "shopping" an image makes it irrelevant? Stop and think about it. All of today's digital cameras actually "shop" the images for you. Their internal darkrooms convert RAW sensor information into image files. That means an "unshopped" digital image would be all 1's and 0's. All this doesn't matter with infrared. No one's eyes can process infrared. Everything everyone has seen is a photographer's interpretation. All of them are "shopped". With infrared there is no right just as there is no wrong. Use your artistic license and get creative.

I personally like high contrast images. After maximizing dynamic range while avoiding clipping, the "Basic Presence Clarity" was brought up. The "White Balance Eye Dropper" was used on the bright portion of the trees to make them white. "Blue Saturation" was decreased to deepen the tree shadows giving them a 3D look. "Orange Saturation" was decreased to deemphasize the sky and covered bridge.

Now you have it; my interpretation of "Once in a Blue Moon". With only one segment left, can anyone guess the topic?