Streaming along (720nm IR)

Part 15 of the "lost gorge series". Initially I did not plan to share this, that's another huge one but with just so much stuff in it, that it had no focus whatsoever (the stream disappeared), just cluttered. But since this one had no shake, the quality is good, some days later I randomly 'surfed around' in the panorama with my old image viewer and found this somewhat nice section. Not sure why it's so hard for me to crop?

 

So this is the opening before the end section of the gorge starts, I already shared a b&w one from the stone I rested on. The stream actually splits here (can't see tough), and it was nice to poke around in this flatter area and perhaps find old artefacts (a.k.a. trash that's been there for 40 years) etc. What's interesting, these seasional fast growing bushes in the middle, have the stronges IR response, even though they are not greener or special in any way to other foliage on the visible spectrum. I also enjoy the quality, nice and sharp, which is not a given due to the nature of IR photography (using color filters on a digital sensor resp. a discrete color array); panorama approach for the win, even though this crop looks like it could be a 28mm single shot. Anyway..

 

 

Source for this pano is a 36 photo mercator projection, ~370,3MP, 24133 x 15343px trimmed, cropped to 44,2MP with 8:5 ratio.

 

Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)

Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD

Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)

ISO250, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,4sec

(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)

tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)

Done