Weather turbulence (720nm IR)

More classic April weather. After the wind issues the day I took the "Infrared ridge" panorama, I in fact felt compelled to hike up there again (and get revenge, so to speak, even though that's not how it works, but it's a proper hike is what I'm saying, hours for sure) a couple of days later, with less wind and the weather turned out to be quite interesting.

One can't order this type of thing, so in that sense I'm glad that I was able to capture it, ok-ish. There are at least three (or more) localized rain cells, and the sun is to the right so when the light comes through the clouds (as in the left of the panorama) the rays create this diagonal pattern.

 

 

Source for this were 6 individual photos, portrait orientation, with a plain cylindrical arrangement yielding 13219 x 4272px, ~56,5MP, slightly cropped (there was a tree on the left) to ~29,8MP. The source photos had quite a lot of noise, not sure why, but it's ok with the panoramic format.

 

Nikon D90 (APS-C / DX, fullspectrum mod)

Nikon Zoom-NIKKOR 80-200mm f/4 AI-S

Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)

ISO250, ???mm, f/8, 1/3sec

tripod, regular 3-way head, remote (ML-L3)

Done