Cumulus being blown over the mountainside from the west mixing with altostratus above the northern terrain. Stable atmosphere in the upper atmosphere, slight instabilities in lower mountain region. View report here: https://www.flowvis.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Clouds_First-1.pdf
Grace Halbleib
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Flow Vis Guidebook
- Introduction to the Guidebook
- Overview 1: Phenomena. Why Does It Look Like That?
- Overview 2: Visualization Techniques
- Overview 3: Lighting
- Overview 4 - Photography A: Composition and Studio Workflow
- Overview 4 - Photography B: Cameras
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Focal Length
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Aperture and DOF
- Overview 4: Photography D: Exposure
- Overview 4 - Photography E - Resolution
- Overview 5 - Post-Processing
- Clouds 1: Names
- Clouds 2: Why Are There Clouds? Lift Mechanism 1: Instability
- Clouds 3: Skew - T and Instability
- Clouds 4: Clouds in Unstable Atmosphere
- Clouds 5: Lift Mechanism 2 - Orographics
- Clouds 6: Lift Mechanism 3 - Weather Systems
- Boundary Techniques - Introduction
- Dye Techniques 1 - Do Not Disturb
- Dye Techniques 2 - High Visibility
- Dye Techniques 3 - Light Emitting Fluids
- Refractive Index Techniques 1: Liquid Surfaces
- Refractive Index Techniques 2: Shadowgraphy and Schlieren
- Particles 1- Physics: Flow and Light
- Particles 2: Aerosols
- Particles 3: In Water
- Particles 4 -Dilute Particle Techniques
- Art and Science
- TOC and Zotpress test
- Photons, Wavelength and Color
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I like how the skew-t plot indicates there is a controlled section of clouds between 600 and 300 mb bringing scale to the multiple layers of clouds
I really like what you accomplished with editing. Really brought out the details in the clouds and the black mountains are a very cool touch.
I love the sense of texture and depth in this image!
I really enjoy the contrast in the edited version of the photo! I’m curious, what exact post-processing steps did you take to bring out both the dark mountains and the bright blue sky?
Hey Alana, here’s my exact edits from lightroom:
Temp – brought up the warmth a little to 5932 (my camera has weird temperature settings though so your numbers may be a range more in the double digits)
Exposure -0.23
Highlights +17
Shadows -26
Whites +28
Blacks -16
Vibrance +8
Saturation +4
S curve on the tone curve
The contrast on this is great! I love the silhouette of the mountains, it makes the image very dramatic.