Question

More pics and their discussion...

Answer 1

Continuation of:
http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/5318f789e4b0b3d1e0463548

Answer 2

So there was some stormy weather. I managed to get some nice pics from a gas station. Worked out well enough. Tried to get the signs out of the cloud shots... but now I am not sure if I could have left them in. Oh, and the rainbow factory worked out really well. If I had gotten my rig on I might have been able to possition better on the other side of a hand rail, but it did OK!

Answer 3

YES! You finally made a new post. ^.^

Answer 4

Some of these are using HDR to try and get more color out of it, but I do not see much difference between them and the other shots.

Answer 5

Neither do I. I like the first picture :D

Answer 6

I only get raws for non-HDR, and frankly the most stunning one in the clouds is 487, which is NOT HDR.

488, 489, 492, 493, and 494 are HDR.

Answer 7

But I still like the first 1 ^.^ If you give it a filter.... It would be awesome :D

Answer 8

Yah, it also has the least obstructions from lights and signs. So they would be easy to edit out with a quck crop or even a little fudging it with copypaste nearby cloud.

Answer 9

In 487, the light in the pic actually works... it adds some perspective of size by being dwarfed.

Answer 10

In the rainbow pics, the raws offer the ability to white ballance more. Get rid of some of the gloom.

Answer 11

Here is 495 with some color tweaks to bring out more detail. I adjusted the tone, brightness, and contrast. By making it brighter you lose dark areas, but by also tweaking the contrast I help retain some more dark so it prevents a washed out look. Instead, I get a more vivid picture with less shadows.

Now, the shadows do let the rainbow bee the brightness in the gloom, but the detail sets a different scene. So it really comes down to a choice of what you want the picture to portray.

Answer 12

O. O wow these are some c9ol pics :DDD

Answer 13

Doing a pretty blue filter there, eh?

Answer 14

This is so amazing O.O

Answer 15

idk why but this reminds me of an mspaint i made in elementary school

Answer 16

awesomely blue c;

Answer 17

i was a true artist

Answer 18

Elsa, what if it was mor of a pink couds day?

Answer 19

Oooh... it looks better ^.^
Although the other parts on the side..... http://prntscr.com/8f3vs5

Answer 20

I just took some pictures yesterday for a contest.. Not sure if they're any good. Definitely not like yours o.o

Answer 21

really nice pictures :)

Answer 22

Elsa, I did a filter in pink, but deleted sky areas form it by color selecitng. This got a bit much, so I painted back in a few parts. Then I did a blue overlay to help bring out the sky more. Finally, I did one that I added a little green here and there with. All of them are soft light overlays that are mostly transparent and I did blur them to soften the hard overlap areas.

I did not crop it, but that is really pretty easy to do at this point... or other methods of cleaning the pic.

Answer 23

About time we got a new post :D

Answer 24

Active skies never cease to amaze me :3

Answer 25

This is a rainbow I somehow managed to shoot just before it faded from my view. >_<

Answer 26

Somehow my phone converted it to a smaller size... :/

Answer 27

This stuff is amazing

Answer 28

It will be more amazing when Eric comes back to us ;-;

Answer 29

IKR?! ;-;

Answer 30

MIRA IS AN ACTUAL CORN

Answer 31

Eric come back! T_T

Answer 32

YES PLEASE