Clouds and Prairie

[scotto]

This image is from a recent hike in a park near my home. The prairie grass along the trail was eye-level height, and I couldn't see much else but sky. I thought the clouds would make a nice subject for a b&w conversion.

Always welcome thoughts on what's good and bad, general impressions... Thanks for looking.

Best regards

D7000 12-24mm at 12mm f/16 1/250sec ISO100
Lightroom and Topaz B&W Effects

[pcgpcg]

My first impression is that I wish you were a foot taller. Well maybe that’s a bit extreme. I wish you’d been standing on a footstool so that i could see more than a glimmer of land in the background. My brain wants to see what’s there. 

[BobDavid]

Looks like you used a "red filter" when you did the conversion to black and white. I like the photo fine. It looks like the picture could have been taken in the high plains of Colorado.

[JNB_Rare]

At first I was uncertain about the sunburst, especially the placement. But I don't think it would be near so interesting a picture without it.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

At first I was uncertain about the sunburst, especially the placement. But I don't think it would be near so interesting a picture without it.

I thought about that, too, and I came to the same conclusion.

[scotto]

... I wish you’d been standing on a footstool so that i could see more than a glimmer of land in the background...

I actually did consider taking a shot holding the camera over my head. There weren't any high places or tree stumps to stand on.

[scotto]

Looks like you used a "red filter" when you did the conversion to black and white.

I used Topaz B&W Effects for the conversion and made use of the color sensitivity sliders. Seemed to do a nice job on the sky, including bringing out the details of the sunburst rays.

[scotto]

I did crop a little off the top to position the sunburst a little higher in the final frame. As I worked on the image, I liked the contrast that developed across the image between the sunburst and the dark sky on the right.

[John R]

Lovely. Makes you want to run through the fields and chase the clouds, just like when we were kids. Where do those clouds go? I will ask Joni Mitchel. Maybe she knows.

JR