Artistic Shots- Well thought out, framed (positioned), artistic shots only please.

[photoman]

Rob- that is a great catch. I agree that the right side is heavy due to the lighting and the large house and barn. That little bit of falling rain does do just enough to draw your attention and help balance the shot.

I have been unsuccessful in lighting shots so far. They seem to occur when I cannot shoot or fade out when I am out and prepared to shoot.

I guess I am the anti-lightning Rod Reg.

 

[thecriscokid]

I like this from the other weekend. what does the public think?

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[photoman]

I think you have a lot to work with here if you do a little post process work. The red in the sky is over saturated and your foreground is too dark. There are several ways to bring out the details and balance the foreground and sky.

I did some quick editing on the image in Photoshop and posted the results below.

I like this from the other weekend. what does the public think?

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[Sexy6Chick]

A couple from this afternoons storm

Loving these Aaron. I got some shots of the storm as well, though not out in the open like you did.

The lightning activity around the house was fantastic...and my battery for the camera was dead

 

[photoman]

Loving these Aaron. I got some shots of the storm as well, though not out in the open like you did.

The lightning activity around the house was fantastic...and my battery for the camera was dead

Thanks Natalie- We seemed to get skipped out here in terms of lightning. I am going to have to drive to get some actual lightning shots.

 

[Rob O]

Craggley old tree on my parent's mountain property outside Fairplay (in the Central Colorado Rockies). I loved how this tree stood out, and my first thought was to employ the Big Stopper for dramatic skies ... which worked as expected. Only wish I had a slightly lower POV so the bottom branches didn't get lost in the background. Oh well.

f/18 | 27 seconds (midday!) | ISO 100 | tripod mounted & remote triggered | Lee Big Stopper


Weathered ... by Rob Overcash Photography (robotography), on Flickr

 

[Viggen]

f/18 | 27 seconds (midday!) | ISO 100 | tripod mounted & remote triggered | Lee Big Stopper

Whats the straight from camera shot look like?

 

[Rob O]

Whats the straight from camera shot look like?

Here is the STFC shot, with the only changes being resize to 1000px, add watermark and save as jpeg. No changes in RAW conversion (all settings as shot/captured) and nothing done aside from resize.

Note that the Big Stopper is known to create cool white balance with a slightly bluish color cast, which is evident here. Sometimes it's best to compensate in-camera at the time of shooting, while others it's easily corrected in post (I did in post with the B&W/processed version of this one).

It's important to keep in mind that "straight from the camera" can mean very different things depending on the shooter. I shoot RAW and my in-camera settings are either neutral or a tick *below* default and, in this case, used AWB. In other words, a truly "raw" image file.

 

[Viggen]

I realize that you probably shoot RAW and not JPEG and thanks for posting up the original file. IMO, it looks much better than the B&W. I have a personal distaste for over processed shots. Great shot, nonetheless.

 

[DWphoto]

Here is the STFC shot, with the only changes being resize to 1000px, add watermark and save as jpeg. No changes in RAW conversion (all settings as shot/captured) and nothing done aside from resize.

Note that the Big Stopper is known to create cool white balance with a slightly bluish color cast, which is evident here. Sometimes it's best to compensate in-camera at the time of shooting, while others it's easily corrected in post (I did in post with the B&W/processed version of this one).

It's important to keep in mind that "straight from the camera" can mean very different things depending on the shooter. I shoot RAW and my in-camera settings are either neutral or a tick *below* default and, in this case, used AWB. In other words, a truly "raw" image file.

awesome shot. just added you as contact on Flickr

what is this big stopper all about?

 

[JamesDowning]

It's a very dark filter so he could elongate the shutter speed and get the cloud blur.

 

[Rob O]

awesome shot. just added you as contact on Flickr

what is this big stopper all about?

Thanks.

The "big stopper" refers to the Lee Big Stopper 10-stop ND (neutral density) filter. This is a 4x6 filter that's damn near opaque, allowing you to create (and be creative with) long exposure images. For example, the shutter speed for that same shot of the tree without filters would have been 1/400 of a second. Using the big stopper I was able to slow it to 27 seconds! You can see other examples using this filter in my flickr stream.

 

[thecriscokid]

Here are 3 different exposures straight from the camera (1 was cropped)
Lets pretend that #3 is not blurred
I like the 1st one and the 3rd version. What would you all do/think?
I feel like I am drawn to the 1st, I just wonder if people think it's too dark??

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[Deleted member 9101]

Kingsly lake at Camp Blanding Fl. What I do on a drill weekend to kill time.

 

[nwoods]

awesome shot. just added you as contact on Flickr

what is this big stopper all about?

I didn't know either, until I looked it up
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/686370-REG/LEE_Filters_10_STOP_GLASS_4X4_4_x_4_Big.html

Interesting. I really need to get into filters. I've not yet used any, and I have been seeing a real need for some ND filters in my kit