Storm Clouds Over Taro Field

anonymouscuban

I posted this panoramic early this week for feedback. The actual scene was quite beautiful and I sat in this field for 20 minutes, taking it in and admiring how beautiful it looked. I tried my best to capture what I saw. It was quite a challenge to shoot. I used a GND filter and took 3 bracketed exposures just to make sure I had something to work with.

The first pass editing this pano, which I posted, was rather blah; not even close to what I remembered. I got some feedback on ways to crop and also edit it to improve the shot. I reworked the shot from scratch and worked those suggestions into this edit. I'm a lot happier with this version. I think the clouds and sky are much more dramatic and really make the photo, where the previous version, the foreground was too overwhelming. BTW, thanks Zoomer for the suggestion of desaturated the taro leaves a bit.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this one. I may end up printed this large for my office:

[click on the photo to view larger; a must for this shot]

black mamba

No question, this version is a good bit improved and I share your enthusiasm for it. And you're right....it does help a lot to view the larger image. Good work.

Tom

kdog

Looks great, Alex! That sky with the rain falling on the mountains is amazing.

fineartblackwhite

pretty nice panorama

anonymouscuban

Thanks guys.

joe-bob

Awesome shot.