Sunday, August 24, 2008

Clouds, clouds and more clouds, part II

These pictures are the same clouds from the previous post, but now processed from Black & White. I guess it is just a matter of taste. A stronger contrast between shadows and highlights here or the unnatural colors from the previous post.

Either one gives very nice pictures, different from what we see every day. I especially like how the shape of the clouds are much more defined here compared to visible light. Reflectivity to IR of water vapor does the trick!

The green color in the trees reflects infrared very strongly, so they appear almost white in these pictures:


Different trees, all full of green, reflect IR light differently:



One of my all time favorites, both for B&W as well as false color:

I just thought that it is hard to appreciate how much clouds appear different in infrared than in visible light. Next time I will have to take pictures of clouds IR and also in visible light, so we can compare them better.

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