JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Live Oak trees are known for being wider than they are tall, and this one certainly fits that description. Taken with a Sony A6300 that has been modified by the removal of the Color Filter Array on the sensor which makes it a mono sensor. It is also full spectrum. This image used an orange filter which allows some visible light to mix with the IR light that is not blocked by the orange filter which allows the leaf color to be somewhat darker than the white color that it would have been had a 720nm filter been used.

The lens is an old legacy Minolta Rokkor 50mm f1.4 lens which for this image was set to f8.

The process is to shoot RAW and then convert to mono DNG using an application called Monochrome2DNG. I then processed the DNG files in ON1 Denoise and saved as DNG from that also. Finally, loaded the files into Lightroom where they were processed into an 11 image panorama. Then tweaked in Lightroom, mostly with the Dehaze, Clarity and Texture sliders.

The original panorama was 17119 x 9585 pixels. Tried exporting to JPEG using JPEG 20%, but the file wouldn't load into hedgehog. Then downsized to 8560 x 4793 and exported at 80%, and that was enough - it loaded.

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13 Loc: I am only responsible to what I say..not what

Nice...I like it very much!!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

It is quite dark on my monitor ....especially for having an IR component. Thanks for sharing.
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JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Here is about a 3/4 stop increase in brightness. See if that looks any better.

It is easy to not notice it is a little too dark as there is a fine line between making the whites too bright and not bright enough. This one does seem borderline on my monitor as being a bit over exposed. I think I will get out the Spyder 5 Pro calibrator and see if my calibration is accurate.

I also see a pano merging error in the lower right where Lightroom made a mistake. Look at the road.

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After seeing the pano error, I have cropped the image. I had allowed the software to autofill in in spots my images failed to overlap and it made mistakes.

And here is the terrain where the Live Oak like to grow. This being summer, the weeds have turned Golden Brown (this is where the name Golden State comes from). And the trees tend to survive the best in gullies where fires won't take them out.

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dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

I have never seen such trees, but have read about them....magnificent!

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

I sure love these two. So lush and serene ✨🔔🖤🔔✨