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Holy infrared tree
Strange things happend that day, on that long extended hike I did. As I stopped for a break in the shadow of this old larch (this is at the timberline in terms of altitude, so kind of harsh conditions up there, at least in winter), it suddenly became totally luminous and was emanating a mystical aura.
It became so radiant that everything, the world of the many things, turned totally pitch-black in comparison and started to fade away, disappeared. A truly mysterious experience! ..at least that's what my infrared camera saw and had. π
The original for this is a 360Β° infrared panorama consisting of 42 individual photos with a trimmed mercator projection yielding ~278,8MP. I took only a portion of it, cropped to 16:10 resulting in a resolution of 16889 x 10556px and still ~178,3MP.
This could have been a nice false-color image, but the featureless sky is merciless when it comes to the dreaded infrared hotspot as well as multi-row stitching, so I wasn't all to pleased with the resulting artefacts that showed up.
That's why I decided to go for a more or less artistic low-key b&w development, why not? When shooting towards or into the sun, my IR setup can produce some amount of 'glow' or 'halation', so working with the highlights I can either tone it down or emphasize it, which is what I did here. There was no editing involved in the strict sense, it's all out there in the mysterious (for us) invisible infrared world.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,6sec
panorama head, tripod, remote
Holy infrared tree
Strange things happend that day, on that long extended hike I did. As I stopped for a break in the shadow of this old larch (this is at the timberline in terms of altitude, so kind of harsh conditions up there, at least in winter), it suddenly became totally luminous and was emanating a mystical aura.
It became so radiant that everything, the world of the many things, turned totally pitch-black in comparison and started to fade away, disappeared. A truly mysterious experience! ..at least that's what my infrared camera saw and had. π
The original for this is a 360Β° infrared panorama consisting of 42 individual photos with a trimmed mercator projection yielding ~278,8MP. I took only a portion of it, cropped to 16:10 resulting in a resolution of 16889 x 10556px and still ~178,3MP.
This could have been a nice false-color image, but the featureless sky is merciless when it comes to the dreaded infrared hotspot as well as multi-row stitching, so I wasn't all to pleased with the resulting artefacts that showed up.
That's why I decided to go for a more or less artistic low-key b&w development, why not? When shooting towards or into the sun, my IR setup can produce some amount of 'glow' or 'halation', so working with the highlights I can either tone it down or emphasize it, which is what I did here. There was no editing involved in the strict sense, it's all out there in the mysterious (for us) invisible infrared world.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,6sec
panorama head, tripod, remote