Before the Storm

[John_Nevill]

Another image taken in the Joshua Tree National Park and Split toned using LR v1.0.

1DMkIIN - Sigma 12-24mm at 12mm f8, 1/200 ISO 100, +0.7 stop, cropped 16:9 format

Comments welcome and appreciated.

Its ironic, I have this sort of uncanny relationship with the weather, being british the rain follows me, even in the desert Fortunately I caught this just before the skies opened!

 

[Asher Kelman]

Another image taken in the Joshua Tree National Park and Split toned using LR v1.0.

1DMkIIN - Sigma 12-24mm at 12mm f8, 1/200 ISO 100, +0.7 stop, cropped 16:9 format

Comments welcome and appreciated.

Its ironic, I have this sort of uncanny relationship with the weather, being british the rain follows me, even in the desert Fortunately I caught this just before the skies opened!

Hi John,

I do like the composition and you are to be thankful for the long reach of the British Foreign Office, that you were delivered the right clouds for your picture direct from those fair Isles!

I played with the image in Photoshop and found that there's a lot of depth to the file and therefore it can be versioned in may different ways.

My own impression is that more can be made of that Sigma's ability to render objects with a sense of e dimensionality. I feel that one can risk more extremes of darkness, since that is where the mood is derived from.

I believe that there's a lot of work worthwhile in this picture. The tonalities of the trees might be tackled separately from the foreground and that from the overcast threatening clouds.

The latter are amazingly oppressive and about to explode when the tones are brought down and S curved.

The very foreground soil could really anchor the whole picture if brought out with a multiply layer of a curves with a simple S curve.

Anyway just a few ideas of mine.

Still, as is the picture is great and I'd come back to it anyway.

Asher