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Skies: Show your most impressive skies!

Brandon Cade

New member
Brandon,

Tell us about the first picture!

Asher

Asher,

In this photo, I was leaning out the passenger side of a truck while following the tractors waiting to pick up the next few round bales of hay for our horses. It was HOT, but I saw the image coming together in my head and had to snap a few off.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Asher,

In this photo, I was leaning out the passenger side of a truck while following the tractors waiting to pick up the next few round bales of hay for our horses. It was HOT, but I saw the image coming together in my head and had to snap a few off.
What about the post processing?
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Ian Houston: Sunrise along the west side of the island

Ian,

Sunsets, even skies on fire as here, need to be handled with an extra set of standards as otherwise, it's, at best, merely "postcard-pretty". Just cloning in a large extra chunk of sky above and black below, going beyond square but not yet portrait proportions, might just do that. It's worth that try.

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
In Bournemouth UK
(direct from the sensor) no crop, adjustments or whatever...



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Quite a confrontation here between the two clouds, Sandrine! I like the composition and the way you have the details in the shading that make them so alive.

Asher
 
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Main Range, Kosciuszko National Park

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 16.3cm x 21.4cm, from a Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB67 camera fitted with a 50mm f4.5 lens and #25 red filter.

The Main Range is open space with ancient rounded mountains. There is no place to shelter if the weather turns. Dramatic clouds could announce sunny-day thermals or and advancing ice storm. Their beauty evokes appreciation and apprehension in equal measure.
 

Mark Hampton

New member
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Main Range, Kosciuszko National Park

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 16.3cm x 21.4cm, from a Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB67 camera fitted with a 50mm f4.5 lens and #25 red filter.

The Main Range is open space with ancient rounded mountains. There is no place to shelter if the weather turns. Dramatic clouds could announce sunny-day thermals or and advancing ice storm. Their beauty evokes appreciation and apprehension in equal measure.

Maris,

nice of you to join this old thread... a good addition ... the clouds remind me of the formations that occur at rannoch moor...

cheers
 
Some great images here but C Winston Mitchell's is an absolute standout, a very impressive image.

Some of my 'big skies'

A 3 shot portrait format sunrise pano from the 1DsMkII & 24-105 lens, taken 26 June 2010 from just up the road. I can see these trees from my ‘photo window’ which has the flyscreen removed, but if I get off my bum and toddle up the road I get this much better aspect!

Fire in the Sky by Photography by Odille, on Flickr

Approaching storm front, again, a pant up the road (opposite side this time) to grab 40 or so shots of this behemoth advancing. And we didn't get one drop of rain out if it!

Storm front over Terranora Jan 2010 by Photography by Odille, on Flickr

Lake Pukaki (south Island) NZ and the crescent moon at dawn - shot from my Panasonic Lumix FZ35 taken on my last trip to NZ (May 2010)

Lake Pukaki & dawn moon by Photography by Odille, on Flickr

I was moseying around feeding the pussies about 5.30 this morning (3 Sept 2010) and a bit of nice colour was coming up, so I changed lenses to the 50-110 and took a couple out the window, then I thought this was really starting to shape up and hurried downstairs for a better view, but even I didn't expect it to get this spectacular.

Sunrise by Photography by Odille, on Flickr

I did some research into the interesting phenomenon of seeing the sun in the sea before it actually pokes its 'nose' over the horizon. From wikipedia:
Sunrise is the instant at which the upper edge of the Sun appears above the horizon in the east. Sunrise should not be confused with dawn, which is the (variously defined) point at which the sky begins to lighten, some time before the sun itself appears, ending twilight. Because atmospheric refraction causes the sun to be seen while it is still below the horizon, both sunrise and sunset are, from one point of view, optical illusions.

As sunrise and sunset are calculated from the leading and trailing edges of the sun, and not the centre, the duration of “day” is slightly longer than “night”. Further, because the light from the sun is bent by the atmospheric refraction, the sun is still visible after it is geometrically below the horizon.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Main Range, Kosciuszko National Park

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 16.3cm x 21.4cm, from a Tmax 400 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB67 camera fitted with a 50mm f4.5 lens and #25 red filter.

The Main Range is open space with ancient rounded mountains. There is no place to shelter if the weather turns. Dramatic clouds could announce sunny-day thermals or and advancing ice storm. Their beauty evokes appreciation and apprehension in equal measure.


Maris,

What a rare treat! Kudos!

An excellent use of a red filter for bring out a great sky with tall billowing clouds! Effective use of the foreground rocks gives us a 3rd dimension "feel" and the snow pattern is the finishing touch, This is one very effective B&W landscape picture and a distinctive style. I'd love to see more landscapes like this!

My only regret is that you don't have a nude or at least a pair of shoes or else a prairie dog on the rocks!

Asher
 

Jarmo Juntunen

Well-known member
Jake, Minnesota is often referred to as the "Finn State" here in Finland, the reason being the heavy migration from our country to your area in the 20's. But there must be more... your landscapes look very similar to ours! Nice pictures, thanks!
 

Jarmo Juntunen

Well-known member
Mark, your work always makes a great impact and this Sky is no exception. There is so much to discover in this superb image.
 

Tom dinning

Registrant*
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some.Sky.some - Deka​


A bit of a dirty bump for this thread! :)

I should never look at your photos before I go to bed, Mark. I have really bad dreams trying to figure out what it's all about. I'm not being negative or critical, I'm seriously missing the point. I can't even find a 'like' or 'dislike' in me. I need something to work with. Please shed some light so I can get a decent night sleep.
Cheers
Tom
 

Don Ferguson Jr.

Well-known member
I should never look at your photos before I go to bed, Mark. I have really bad dreams trying to figure out what it's all about. I'm not being negative or critical, I'm seriously missing the point. I can't even find a 'like' or 'dislike' in me. I need something to work with. Please shed some light so I can get a decent night sleep.
Cheers
Tom

Is it a photo of asphalt ?
Don
 
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