Worthing Pier at sunset, with the sun barely hanging on at the horizon.

The pier was opened in 1862, and the amusements arcade that’s in the middle of the pier was opened in 1935. The ‘Amusements’ sign was featured on the cover of Gene’s 1996 album To See The Lights, although then it said ‘New Amusements.’

This colour treatment is achieved with an ‘IR Chrome’ 550nm infrared filter and adjustments using LUTs and manual controls. This filter is claimed to be based on the classic Kodak Aerochrome IR film stock. In reality it doesn’t really come that close to this venerable medium, not without a lot of post-production work, certainly,, but it does produce RAW files that are bursting with creative processing potential.

This image was developed (for want of a better word) to create a sky that felt fairly close to human-perception reality although with a subtle retro quality. As part of that, the warm sunset-driven hues in the scene became mapped to a rusty orange-red colour.

The result is disarmingly close to what we expect on first glance, but at the same time feels curiously not quite normal. Note the way both sets of clothes appear to be the same colour, a hue that is also found in the large sign at the top of the building and even in the small advertising banner on the wall. It’s fascinating that at the same time the somewhat tattered flag in the upper-right is rendered as almost completely white, which means it reflected a large amount of infrared wavelengths.