Weather Photography past and present
LOCATION
1 Inverness Campus
Inverness
Highland
IV2 5NA
United Kingdom
Photographing the weather has fascinated people for generations, but even before cameras people were using paint to capture the performances of the skies and the effects of the weather. With Luke Howard’s introduction of a scheme for classifying clouds, artists began to include realistic clouds in their paintings, moving away from the more symbol-like styles that were used for clouds earlier. Although photography was introduced in the 1840s, it was some decades before photographers turned their attention to the skies – initially to clouds, but later to other phenomena. As our understanding of photography advanced, photographs began to be used for proper scientific investigations of atmospheric processes, helping us to understand atmospheric dynamics and phenomena. This talk covers developments in photographing weather in all its aspects, including a discussion of some techniques that are available to present-day photographers.
Photographing the weather has fascinated people for generations, but even before cameras people were using paint to capture the performances of the skies and the effects of the weather. With Luke Howard’s introduction of a scheme for classifying clouds, artists began to include realistic clouds in their paintings, moving away from the more symbol-like styles that were used for clouds earlier. Although photography was introduced in the 1840s, it was some decades before photographers turned their attention to the skies – initially to clouds, but later to other phenomena. As our understanding of photography advanced, photographs began to be used for proper scientific investigations of atmospheric processes, helping us to understand atmospheric dynamics and phenomena. This talk covers developments in photographing weather in all its aspects, including a discussion of some techniques that are available to present-day photographers.