143 Awesome Photos of Clouds

Fluffy clouds ! Wispy clouds ! Sunset cloud ! Xtreme cloud ! The 143 photographers who entered this week’sShooting Challengehave all your basic and custom cloud call for covered .

WINNER – Cloud Bomb

Last hebdomad a pal from El Paso came into townspeople and we went out around my locality in Austin , TX with my Nikon film tv camera to take some pictures . I sleep with shoot motion-picture show for many reason . Film has a quality about it that I ca n’t rest away from . It also forces this delayed gratification conception that myself , at 22 , am at a constant struggle with . I do n’t own a digital camera – just my spot and shoot Nikon .

For this scene – I saw this Brobdingnagian thunderhead make grow far off over the horizon . I was on a soar lens and I knew it would look epical if I zoomed in to constrict the infinite . I had no idea how epic it would bend out . I was able to seize just after sundown at dusk . I fell in love with this motion-picture show because my friend is looking back to see all the stage of lucky hr in a massive thunderhead / nuclear bomb calorimeter . I was in all likelihood shooting around f5.6 on a 135 millimetre lens . Fugifilm 400 hurrying Supera cinema . This seizure was a personal best for me , and I ca n’t wait to top it !

-Cameron Schmucker

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Shades of Gray

So I get out and bought a flash - oxygen polarizing filter this calendar week on gizmodo ’s proffer and this shot was taken when I was fiddle around with how to use the filter . It ’s awesome how a quarter - spell of the filter can change the pic . This is a blastoff of Catalina Island off the Southern California sea-coast . I thought the photo worked as the island looks like a swarm too . My wife guess it ended up look like a teras : the island , its oral cavity ; and the clouds , its eye . I bring a lot of photos of clouds this week and I went with this one as it was a footling dissimilar from the “ standard ” cloud photo . canyon EOS REBEL T1i , EF - S18 - 55 mm f/3.5 - 5.6 IS Lens with CPL filter , 1/125 , f/13 , 55 millimetre , ISO 100 , 0 EV .

-Matthew Johnson

Shades

So I set out to get some pic ’s of clouds for this workweek ’s gizmodo photo contest , I do n’t own a polorizing genus Lens filter so I improvised by using a flashy pair of sun glasses , I was suprised by the results !

Nikon D3100 , 18 - 55 M outfit lens , ISO 400 .

-Justin Beck

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Yellow, Red and Blue

I run into the red Light Within glow through my blinds and into my eyes . I look out the window and grabbed the camera cursorily there after and this is the resolution .

The configurations I used on my 550d / t2i with the outfit 18 - 55 at 18 mm were f/3.5 , ISO-100 and 1/25 , handheld .

-Andreas Vadian

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It REALLY DOES Look Like a Reindeer

This was a little trial and error . The photo that really turn out the good was the non polorized photo that I took . This was take up on my Canon XSi with a 50 mm1.4 lens . At 1/640 at f/5.6 ISO 100 . This picture looks like a Rangifer tarandus on a snowy champaign !

-Seth Porter

Popcorn

I took this photo from a sheet heading from Washington D.C to London , England with my Canon G11 After flow asleep for a flake I awoke , decent at sunrise and just had to take a picture . I had quickly pulled out my G11 and develop the scope just decently , It took me almost 20 minutes to get the guessing just right and making certain their was no reflection and snapped this shot . Canon G11 , 55 mm Prime lens ( built in )

ISO : 80 , Shutter Speed : 1/600 , f/4

-David M. Utt

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Clouds in Oil

Midway through 45 degree * Celsius * day , I naturally figure we would expect to see a fairly nice scant show in the evening , as this is usually the causa when we have such blistering humid Day here in Ottawa . I checked the weather radar , and sure enough enough , a beast of a violent storm was approaching . At the speed it was moving , it looked like I had about 2 hours until it would get ( I work Sundays , so this took a chip of preparation ) . I made certain to push my last 15 minute break far enough that I would catch this monster rolling in .

At about 7:20 local time , I went outside to see this churning monster moving in , followed by 140 Km / h sustained gusts , a dust violent storm in the face , and rainfall that felt like hummer . All in all it lasted about 15 minutes . I also learned about 5 minutes later that the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest main stagecoach collapsed due to the large winding , with Cheap Trick mid - operation . No one was wound , but it was quite perturbing seeing as a brace of years ago , I live in Alberta and was around for another one of these freak violent storm that knocked down the Big Valley Jamboree stage and killed someone .

In regards to the picture show , I did n’t have my 40D with me at work , so I grabbed my iPhone 4 and snapped a few ikon . It was set on HDR , and this is the HDR shot , which was WAY cooler looking than the lifelike one . However , the haphazardness on the picture was outrageous , so I plugged it into Lightroom and crank up up the stochasticity reduction . That was the only modification I made .

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-Andrew Johnson

Exposure Tempest

They say the serious camera is the one you have on you , so this is a sweet cell phone shot . Ughh hatred when the DSLR is at home ! I call up it looks like a guys present with a goatee yelling at the sky !

-Sam Katz

Rays

I had an amazing fourth dimension in Vegas and with deficiency of sleep I decided to sit down in the backseat . Suddenly someone in the front was yelling out my name and state me to pull out the tv camera and take exception me to shoot this pic . I was still drowsy and was still scratching my eye as we were speeding along at 60 miles per hour down the Interstate 15 ( San Bernardino Desert ) . Whip out the camera locked through the viewfinder and snapped 2 shot through the windowpane . One in landscape and one in portrayal . fragile cropping to take out the automobile ’s window sill . To my shock it really came out !

Canon 5D Mark II , Canon 24 - 70 mm f/2.8 L @ 65 mm , AV Priority , ISO 400 , shoot velocity : 1/4000 , orbitual polarizer confiscate .

-Patrick Manzon

Galaxy S25

Rainbow I

This shot was taken out of an airplane window with a Canon Rebel XT . It was assume with a 50 millimeter lens of the eye . Aperature was set at 1.4 and ISO was set at 400 . I was just on my way to Italy and when I glanced out the window I was able-bodied to see a rainbow so I had to take a motion picture . It was amazing to be above the rainbow .

-Jessica Krzywicki

Rainbow II

It was a very red-hot and humid twenty-four hours in July . Somehow , a few hours after announcement on Gizmodo , there was an isolate violent storm over New York City . I was so happy to be cooled down without A / C. The rain arrest , clouds were slowly moving toward the East . My married woman and I were having dinner and we spotted part of the rainbow from our flat windowpane . I give out out on the balcony . In a few second base rainbow completed itself . I was rushing to get my camera , tie the widest lens of the eye I have on it . fly the coop back to the balcony and started kindle . Nikon D300 , Nikon AF - S DX Zoom - Nikkor 12 - 24 mm f/4 G IF - ED , 1/200 , f/7.1

-Tunyaluck Phuttal

Funnel(ish) Cloud

I was on my mode to Frankfort , MI with a admirer and find to see this cloud out the rider side windowpane . I have always want to shoot a crack and this swarm was so uniquely shape and remind me of a funnel shape I had to capture an effigy of it to contribute to my collecting of nature photography . Fuji FinePix S6000fd , ISO : 200 , 17 mm focal length , f/8

-Shannon Adams

Cloud Claw Attack

I was coming down from the northside ( of Chicago ) to my girl ’s billet on the westside and saw from the Kennedy thruway that the cloud occur off the lake just at the top of the building seem awe-inspiring . I knew I could get an awe-inspiring view / shot from the cap of her condominium building so I punched it and when I perplex there I pretty much threw all my stuff at her and booked it up to the roof and started shoot away . Canon T2i , EF - S18 - 55 mm f/3.5 - 5.6 IS at 18.0 mm , f18 , 1/80 , ISO 100 .

-Rob Lennox

Cloud Factory

Shot with a Samsung Infuse , ~4 mm f/2.6 @1/2222 . Edited in Photoshop for Color and Contrast . I was waiting all day to seize the evaporation cloud in an interesting constellation , but I was too busy when there was no wind and it was shooting strait up into the sky .

-Matthew Neuman

Scary Face?

Around 8 Prime Minister off my front deck in North West Las Vegas . A couple beer deep ! Do you see the face in the clouds?Canon Powershot G11 , 1/80sec at f/2.8 , 6.1 mm , Iso 80 .

-Dan Leszczynski

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week ’s cloud challenge . There were a lot of first - timers , which is fantastic . The more of you who unite in , the more perspective we get . As always , the full galleries are below , wallpaper onflickr .

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