Blush Canopy sets the weight of the palette in urgency and appetite, and Charcoal Trunk is the swatch that breaks rank: a single charcoal that stops the set reading as one note. Blush Canopy and Deep Teal Water sit on opposite sides of the temperature line, which is the tension the palette runs on and the pair to hold apart. Charcoal Trunk and Pale Mint Sky sit 65 points of lightness apart, enough to separate a foreground from a background without forcing it.
Blush Canopy reads as pure adrenaline: alarm, desire, the color of things that move fast.
Vermilion Leaf reads as pure adrenaline: alarm, desire, the color of things that move fast.
Deep Teal Water blends green's calm with blue's clarity, a color that reads as clean, modern, and trustworthy.
Pale Mint Sky a pale seafoam, teal's clarity turned airy and light.
Charcoal Trunk is black's softer relative, still authoritative, but with enough warmth to feel considered rather than severe.
Real landscapes in false colour: foliage turned pink and coral, water and sky turned teal, with the optics, the weather and the grain left honest
Explore the full Infrared Photography style guide