Teufelsbrücke 2013-08-30

lake near Teufelsbrücke in Goldersbach valley, Schönbuch forest

Bebenhausen 2013-08-30

view of Bebenhausen - the village with a former monastery lies in middle of the Schönbuch forest, north of Tübingen.

building of the former monastery

country garden

Infrared: Birkensee 2013-08-16

Birkensee in infrared

water lily leaves

alternative processing

In the pictures above, the actual infrared intensity is encoded in the brightness, whereas colours are developed in an aesthetic way.
However, infrared pictures can also be processed using the colours from regular images overlaying them on the infrared brightness, which results in the following images:

Birkensee

water lily leaves on Birkensee

pine trees

the different ways of processing in detail:

The first line shows a normal and an infrared picture. The infrared picture (IR-RAW) obtains its colour because the red pixels are most sensitive to the infrared radiation. The easiest processing is to convert the infrared image into a black and white picture (IR-BW). To get coloured images, one can take the colours (VIS-CL) from the normal image and apply them to the infrared black-and-white picture. This result 1 has natural colours with a brightness derived from the infrared image.
Another way to get coloured infrared pictures (the ones first shown) is to apply white balance on the leaves (IR-WB) and then swapping the red and blue channels of the image (result 2).

further impressions

bog cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)

midnight in the forest 2013-08-01

136 sek · f/4 · 12 mm · ISO 800 · EOS 350D
midnight in Schönbuch forest - view towards north, light pollution from Stuttgart and the airport

30 sek · f/4 · 12 mm · ISO 1600 · EOS 350D
Night sky with view of the Schwäbische Alb. Left: Walddorf, Metzingen behind, the lights of Reutlingen are to the right.

30 sek · f/4 · 12 mm · ISO 1600 · EOS 350D
Milky way at the edge of Schönbuch forest. The lights in the center behind the tree are from Tübingen.

Birkensee 2013-06-14