Rainstorm

CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
edited July 16, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
Criticism is always appreciated. Some will think it's too low in contrast.

Rainstorm3-XL.jpg
Don
Gallery: http://cornflakeaz.smugmug.com/

Comments

  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2012
    I like it .. the rain is sweeping and the ground looks swept. Works great for me thumb.gifD
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2012
    Thanks, Mary.
    Don
    Gallery: http://cornflakeaz.smugmug.com/
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,327 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2012
    Good one, Don. I'd like to see a little more anger in those skies....giving the shot more visual impact. Perhaps your processing program would let you do that. Even just a little more contrast might do it.

    Take care,

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2012
    Thanks for commenting, Tom. I tried adding oomph to the sky but when I did, I no longer believed the sky. Maybe I'll try a different way.
    Don
    Gallery: http://cornflakeaz.smugmug.com/
  • dbddbd Registered Users Posts: 216 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2012
    Cornflake wrote: »
    Thanks for commenting, Tom. I tried adding oomph to the sky but when I did, I no longer believed the sky. Maybe I'll try a different way.

    If you want to sell it as a postcard, you need to crank it way up. If you wish to express the nature of a special time in a vista normally composed of harsh light and shadow, not so much.

    Dale B. Dalrymple
    "Give me a lens long enough and a place to stand and I can image the earth."
    ...with apology to Archimedies
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2012
    "If you want to sell it as a postcard, you need to crank it way up. If you wish to express the nature of a special time in a vista normally composed of harsh light and shadow, not so much."

    Quite apart from this image, that's a good summary of a fork in the road we come to often. :)
    Don
    Gallery: http://cornflakeaz.smugmug.com/
  • JCJC Registered Users Posts: 768 Major grins
    edited July 16, 2012
    I think you have some dust bunnies that need clearing up.

    It's a nice image. I like the processing choice. I have a cloudy mountainscape I'm converting from raw to jpeg right now, and mulling over the same choices.

    A lot of landscape shots I see these days I 'don't believe'.
    Yeah, if you recognize the avatar, new user name.
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited July 16, 2012
    Thanks, kolibri. The same weather that produced the rain was producing blowing dust where I was. I thought I'd exterminated all the dust spots but I'll look again.

    "A lot of landscape shots I see these days I 'don't believe'." I agree, and it doesn't matter how good one looks if it rings false to me.
    Don
    Gallery: http://cornflakeaz.smugmug.com/
  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited July 16, 2012
    I agree with the contrast comments. But these are pretty tough shooting conditions; extreme low contrast.

    A lot of cams can't AF with these conditions.

    Perhaps the still image can't document the impending tension.

    If you didn't mention what it was I wouldn't understand there is an impending storm
    Rags
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