This is St George’s church, on the island of Portland, on the English south coast. This was built in the mid-18th century to replace an older church that had become structurally dangerous.

The churchyard was for the Portland community cemetery. The earliest grave there is for a child of under one year; she was born and died in 1766. Infant mortality was very common then, before vaccines and antibiotics, so this event wouldn’t have been that unusual.

The scene was captured with a ‘full spectrum’ camera and a 550nm ‘candy chrome’ filter which passes infrared with some visible light, which provides a useful base for colour development This is claimed to give a rough approximation of mid-20th century Kodak Aerochrome IR film stock, although really it’s more of a general ‘colour IR’ filter than a true Aerochrome mimic.

Here, a combination of using a custom LUT (look-up table) and manual hue mapping adjustments has turned what is initially a predominately red RAW file into this blue and gold end result. The sky is significantly darker here than it appeared to the eye because there was little infrared radiation in it. If only infrared light had been captured the sky would have appeared almost black, but by capturing some visible light as well we’re able to play with colour outcomes in many fascinating and creative ways