P: Color temperature below 2000K

The solution is to use a custom DNG profile for white balance as outlined in the article DP HOME has posted in this thread. 

> it is annoying that Adobe products don't support a more expanded white balance that would include IR images.

they do - RFTM how to handle WB for IR @ http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/photoshop/pdfs/cs6/DNGProfile_EditorDocumen...

That is aggravating for sure.

I use the following work around.

https://youtu.be/ke8If0LXWQ0

White balance for IR photography.

While somewhat "niche", it is annoying that Adobe products don't support a more expanded white balance that would include IR images.  Even with a custom white balance set in camera, Adobe products don't support the more extreme white balances required for IR photography.  Having to import RAW files into Nikon Capture NX-D and then convert them to TIFF before importing into LR is not optimal from either storage or workflow perspectives.  Please consider a fix to this.

Yes, a lot of the light sources that we photograph at night have extremely low color temperatures. Sodium vapor lights for example. If we could choose lower color temps we would be able to balance these lights in a way that we cannot do now.

I think would be potentially useful to have a color temperature below 2000 and a tint below -150 for InfraRed Photography.

As for example.. in this step-by-step it suggests you minimize out the color temperature.
http://www.outbackphoto.com/CONTENT_2...

But this still makes you dependent on going B&W, though if it went lower on the scale and you were doing it for effect would it not be useful vs. being constrained to just B&W too or even if B&W useful?

Actually, it can be done quite easily - see my first reply post up top.

Also, I've just made it "child's play" to edit color profiles for this purpose.

Yes, candlelight cannot be done right in LR...

Lightroom (and Photoshop) white balance color temperature can't go below 2000K, which is a major pain for IR photography (and for candlelight and low-power tungsten too). Other software can do this, why not Adobe's?

Rob, thanks for idea about acr profile. I've tried again and this time successfully. Results before and after: http://alex-krylov.ru/2011/05/05/ir-a...

But I still think the lower color temperature would be useful.