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Guess what... another long exposure.
This time from the other end of the day and an hour after the sun had set. I dashed off from home at 3.45 and it was glorious, cloudy but with those wonderful breaks that let the sun stream through and turn the clouds orange and gold. A 15 minute drive later, the sun was completely obscured and the wind had picked up and the clouds streamed in.
So change of plan and back to the long exposure and a mono conversion.
V2 the original
Sorry if its getting boring and I promise some different stuff, as soon as I get the time to get more than 15 minutes from home.
Thanks to all those that clicked or commented on yesterdays upload.
Mark
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 500D |
| Lens: | EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 9 Nov 2012 - 5:26 PM |
| Focal Length: | 21mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/4.6 |
| Aperture: | f/11.0 |
| Shutter Speed: | 240sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 100 |
| Exposure Mode: | Manual |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | No Flash |
| White Balance: | Manual |
| Title: | shooting clouds |
| Username: | 
marktc |
| Uploaded: | 9 Nov 2012 - 7:39 PM |
| Tags: | Black & white, Clouds, Fine art, Seascape |
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| Votes: | 26 |
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Am I just naturally awkward in going for the opposite 
Normally I would favour the colour but the crop and added mood on the mono makes it a much stronger image. I think maybe the bright yellowish colour in the sky pulls the eye out of the image on v2.
Dave
A strong composition here, Mark, and good use of the long exposure.
I think you could afford to work on this a little more, however.
If you examine the histogram you'll find quite a bit of room to manoeuvre as you've not made the best use of the full tonal range available to you, resulting in a rather drab, monotonic, grey image.
If you use levels and hold the alt key whilst adjusting the black or white sliders, you will see where the image starts to clip the shadows or highlights respectively. I would make that adjustment and then back the sliders off a little.
Result: you get a large tonal range than is visible here with punchier shadows and stronger highlights.
Personally I would also use masked curves layers too, to separately adjust contrast for the sky and rocks. I'd also do this before using the levels tool.
It's worth a try and would move this into a different league, imo
Bill
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