Monument Valley sandstorm, infrared

Spent last week road tripping through the western U.S. Monument Valley was one of our goals to shoot, but a four-state sand storm kicked up with howling winds that day and opportunities to see anything, much less shoot, were limited. During a lull in the wind I managed to get this shot with my IR-converted XTi. I'm very happy with the moody, atmospheric gravity of the shot.

very nicely done.

Indeed moody. Old photo impression also.

Very cool looking. What do you mean by IR-Converted? How is it infa-red?

Thanks for the kind words, folks!

CGunner, The Wife sent the XTi off to LifePixel a couple of months back for conversion. The "hot mirror" infrared blocking filter over the image sensor was removed and replaced by a 720nm pass filter, which blocks visible light and only lets the near-infrared spectrum through (which sensor are quite sensitive to). This is the scene as viewed in the near-infrared spectrum. The sky is much darker and there is a significant increase in the dust cloud details than in comparable visible light images we took. Also, the rocks formations have more contrast. I processed it as a black-and-white image, then converted it to duotone for the rich sepia look. But yeah, it's IR all the way.