Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with an Infrared Camera

Feb 3, 2018 8:56 PM

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Thirty years after the fallout, while men still stay away, the forests, the animals, the plants, everything is thriving, revived by nature.

Simon – a human-friendly fox, whom often approaches groups in the exclusion zone, asking for food.

The Nuclear power plant sarcophagus, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Bumper cars in Pripyat’s amusement park.

The monumental trail with the evacuated villages’ names on either side.

A trolleybus in one of Chernobyl’s scrapyards.

The Bucket (machine part) that was used to clean the roof of the failed reactor after the fallout, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

A lake within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

The iconic 26 meter tall Ferris wheel in Pripyat’s amusement park.

The rotting grand piano in the concert hall of the abandoned town of Pripyat.

“Duga” radar system, used as part of the Soviet anti-ballistic missile early-warning network.
Shot from the bottom, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Abandoned farm in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Butterflies and flowers in the forest, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Pripyat Sports hall, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

The Azure Swimming Pool in Pripyat, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Vladimir Migutin is a photographer who explores the world with an infrared camera.

https://kolarivision.com/chernobyl-stalkers-paradise/

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Anyone else notice the last picture looks exactly like the pool in the school in PUBG

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hey where is this at? I cant be positive from the descriptions, certainly its not the chernobyl exclusion zone

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Wonderful, thanks for sharing it!

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Watch out for Bloodsuckers.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

These pics are cool but would be so much better if they weren’t blown out with that dumb filter

8 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 2

send nudes in infrared

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good thing each picture clarified that it was in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone..

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Is there still radiation in the area?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#ruinporn

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure that machinery that was used to clean the roof was a drop pod from Warhammer 40k.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So many Rads.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Get out of here Stalker!

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Please describe this IR cam....

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Interesting photos, tell us more about the camera used. @op

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Shot with a full spectrum camera, and a 590nm infrared filter from Kolari Vision. (Link in last description)

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No stalkers, anomalies or, artifacts?

8 years ago | Likes 86 Dislikes 0

Tie a cloth to a bolt and throw it.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yes! Just finished reading roadside picnic, loved it

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cheeki breeki

8 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

They're invisible to infrared

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

invisible to infrared would've made STALKER like, ten times easier.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The fallout made a talking fox? Why haven't we heard this before?!?!?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dude, it's old news. They even made a documentary: fantastic Mr fox.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#2 asks for food..

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love shooting in infrared, though i haven't spent the money to convert my camera. I have to use an infrared lens. Exposures take longer.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You don't need to spend money. If you can follow instructions you can do it for free. Although some models may need soldering.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm just terrified to take apart my expensive camera and risk messing it up

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah I did it to an older one.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

BRB packing up to go feed Simon

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

While I do have the same inclination, Simon can prolly dose you with more rads than your recommended 10-year intake just by touching him.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Probably not, but ingesting his hairs could be a problem; researchers have to wear masks when dealing with sedated wolves in the area.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

True, but I still wouldn't want him living under my porch. ; )

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

50 000 people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town.

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 2

you should have more upvotes

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I haven't played that game in over 10 years and I still read that in the right voice. Gave me chills.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Over 10 years? it came out Nov 2007, does that mean you didn't play it? :3

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So is that radioactive glow real or a photo effect?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

...this was a serious question...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's infrared, so some of it is probably naturally occurring light and some of it is probably very much due to radioactivity.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's a photo effect. Chernobyl and Pripyat and the surrounds look dreary and overgrown, not nearly as pretty.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thank yaaa

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

can we spend our honeymoon in chernobyl @blaydur

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

YESSSSS I WOULD LOVE TO!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just wonder if any of these were taken in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone?

8 years ago | Likes 315 Dislikes 0

Ahhhh I just commented something similar. Great minds think alike

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

But fools seldom differ.... never forget the end of that quote lol

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Or, as the Genie would say "great minds think for themselves"

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I know, I hated the descriptions, but they were put there in case people split the pics from the title. (Sorry mate)

8 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 1

Lol... it's np really... I'm just being provocative

8 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

I think the third one was in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone actually, might be wrong though

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

How can you tell?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Get Simon out of there!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Baaad idea. Simon's an (adorable) walking nuclear hazard. Anywhere you put him, other than there, he's dosing flora, fauna, and people.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This isn't an infrared camera, this is the levels window in photoshop.

8 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 2

They resemble overdone HDR (High Dynamic Range) pictures.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It looks like ultraviolet with a blue filter. Hence why most objects look brown, they lack blue.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Looks like an infrared convertion to me. Just take out the filter.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Still not an infrared camera. That'd be thermal.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Uh you do realize"thermal" isn't a part of the electromagnetic spectrum, right?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

It uses careful measurements of longwave IR. It's what people understand as infrared. Either that or the night-vision kind. Not this.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I would like to introduce you to the device known as a thermographic camera, which measures temperature at a distance.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Is it weird that I recognized a lot of those places because of CoD4?

8 years ago | Likes 372 Dislikes 4

I planted many a claymore amongst those bumper cars...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love that they tried their best to get the exact outline of the place. That was some good work. Totally miss it.

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

I've sniped so many people next to that pool

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

metoo

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I recognize a lot from CoD4, and even some from PUBG (Antenna @ Military and Pool @ School)

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

COD(MW) sure took a dive but the original few were great.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It was a ground breaking game that changed fps' forever. He'll yeah! Sadly instead of progression the product was copy pasted.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same here +1

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town.

8 years ago | Likes 131 Dislikes 0

Its now or never! Take the shot!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was expecting this to be top comment

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Now it's around 4 to 5 thousand, and an inordinate amount of mutants.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

*Fifty-faaahhsand

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The amount of times me and a friend did the glitch-jump in a MW2 mission to jump out of the map and explore CoD4's Pripyat beyond...

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Mech Warrior 2?

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

No he is talking about call of duty modern warfare 2.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm sorry but aren't infrared camera the one that shows heat signatures? Not just photos with more red tint?

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

No, just Google infrared convertion. You remap the rgb spectrum into infrared.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Infrared picks up the infrared light wavelength, and converts it to a visible color (usually white/gray, sometimes other, brighter ones.)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

infrared covers 700nm to ~1mm wavelength, ~3-15 um is usable for thermal cameras. A normal camera sensor will work ~300nm - 1um.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But there are filters to keep UV and IR off the sensor,so the individual RGB filters only needs to work with visible light

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Strip the IR filter, the RGB 'bayer' filter doesnt stop IR either, and you get funky false-color images as seen above.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So anything that reflects near IR (700-1000nm) can excite R,G, and B pixels despite being beyond red.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0