Robert Williams Photography offers landscape and nature photography, with a focus on Canadian landscapes.
Fine art prints and stock nature and urban photographs are available at affordable prices.
August 28, 2010: I have added photographs from the Avalon Peninsula (and St. John's) to my article on Newfoundland.
August 24, 2010: A new front-page photograph from Newfoundland.
Infrared photographs are usually displayed in black-and-white. The infrared filter removes almost all of the visible light, and lets in the lower frequency infrared. The resulting image as captured is virtually monochromatic, and a conversion to black-and-white gives a traditional look to the image. The technique for producing an image like this is shown on my article on Digital Infrared Photographs.
A simple technique to add colour to the infrared image is to take a full-colour image of a scene at the same time as an infrared image. The two images are then blended in your image processing software, using "color" blending.
Here is an example:
These are the original images, first in colour, then the original infrared image before processing. After processing the infrared image looks like this:
At this stage, open the infrared black-and-white image into your image processing program. In a layer above the B&W image, insert the colour image, and align it with the background B&W image. Finally, blend the two layers using "color" blending:
The resulting image has image intensity from the IR image, and colour from the normal photograph. You can adjust the photograph to suit your tastes.
The technique is simple, and often has surprising results. Please see my Colour Infrared Landscape page for some of my own images.
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