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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: churly on December 20, 2013, 05:00:12 pm

Title: Rolling Thunder
Post by: churly on December 20, 2013, 05:00:12 pm

I realize this is predominantly a record shot but I thought some might enjoy this portrait of a storm.
Chuck

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: sdwilsonsct on December 20, 2013, 05:07:48 pm

Good title, great shot.

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: KirbyKrieger on December 20, 2013, 05:09:33 pm

I like it :-) … though I feel cheated out of some of the foreground.

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: NancyP on December 20, 2013, 05:37:04 pm

Belongs in a meteorology textbook - very clear demonstration of updraft etc. I like it. The storm is the subject, foreground isn't too important to me.

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: KirbyKrieger on December 20, 2013, 11:11:49 pm

Quote from: NancyP on December 20, 2013, 05:37:04 pm

The storm is the subject, foreground isn't too important to me.

Bedclothes do not, as a rule, detract from the lover.  It's not that the foreground is important, but rather that its excision draws the eye wayward.  The cloud needs a bit more visual padding to provide the proper repose for such magnificence.  The too-close cropping both makes the subject too forward — literally — and unsettles at least this viewer, who was left wondering how long — in storeys —  the tripod legs had to have been.

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: bretedge on December 20, 2013, 11:23:23 pm

I don't find this to be a "record shot" at all.  To the contrary, it's a lovely weather photo.  Sure, a touch more foreground might be nice but I'd be happy to have this in my portfolio as-is.

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: Tony Jay on December 21, 2013, 03:24:01 am

It is much more than a record shot.
An absolute stunner in fact!

Tony Jay

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on December 21, 2013, 05:06:38 am

I don't know how big that file is, but I imagine it could work well as a large print, like 24" high.
Definitely more than "just a record shot".
Thanks for posting it.

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: thierrylegros396 on December 21, 2013, 01:21:36 pm

Quote from: Tony Jay on December 21, 2013, 03:24:01 am

It is much more than a record shot.
An absolute stunner in fact!

Tony Jay

+1

Thierry

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: churly on December 22, 2013, 08:33:33 am

Thanks to everyone for the comments.

Quote from: KirbyKrieger on December 20, 2013, 05:09:33 pm

I like it :-) … though I feel cheated out of some of the foreground.

That's why I referred to a record shot.  The shot was made from a ridge that placed me above the immediate foreground and the distal foreground isn't very interesting.  In fact, this shot was an afterthought as I was actually shooting into the light in the opposite direction.

Nancy - it is indeed pretty classic. 

Chuck

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: luxborealis on December 30, 2013, 10:19:37 am

Quote from: Tony Jay on December 21, 2013, 03:24:01 am

It is much more than a record shot.
An absolute stunner in fact!

Tony Jay

+1 - With more foreground and tonal values raised (especially in the min-tones), it would make a stunning landscape. Well seen and captured.

Title: Re: Rolling Thunder
Post by: churly on December 30, 2013, 08:24:48 pm

Thanks for your thoughts Terry.  I have had some success with both the tonality and the foreground as suggested.
 Chuck