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Main Boards => Photography => Topic started by: watershed on 20:42:41, 23/07/20
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You certainly get some interesting shots!
I'm lucky at this time of the year to see some fantastic sunsets from the house...
Here's one of the many..... A gap appeared just in time, in-between the stormy clouds....
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Two great photos. The clouds almost look like a layer of flying saucers!
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First pic - lovely classic lenticular clouds caused by the airflow rising and falling after passing over high ground, rather like the way ripples form in a stream after the water has flown over a stone. Because of the clouds they are formed, they stay stationary as the air flows through them and yes - they have given rise to flying saucer reports.
They are much loved my glider pilots as the air is rising along the leading edge. If you can catch the lift it is usually strong and smooth and you can climb like a homesick angel while travelling considerable distances along them. Last year I had the good fortune to soar one that had formed downwind of a volcano in NZ. Probably the most fun you can have sitting down with your clothes on!
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(https://www.hikingbirdman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PCT_Pyrocumulus1.jpg)
Pyrocumulus caused by the massive forest fires around Redding, Northern California in July 2018. I took this photo while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. At the time I was not aware of these fires and learnt only a few days later what had caused this pyrocumulus.
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Saw a miniature version in the Vale of Aylesbury in the days of stubble burning. Stubble fires were a good source of lift so we used to take an active interest in them when gliding. One day we watched one generate enough heat to pop through the inversion layer to start a nice cumulus. There was a lot of energy about and conditions were just right so once the hole had been made, the cloud continued to grow and eventually turned into a CuNim.
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Nice one Dodgylegs looks like a Hubble Photo into space.
Birdman thats a seriously powerful looking sky!
NinethAce you must have nerves of steel Flying through that with no engine, I am very iffy on a rollercoaster
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Saw a miniature version in the Vale of Aylesbury in the days of stubble burning.
Used to happen a lot. Friend of mine crashed his glider after flying over my house at Aylesbury.
Here is my contribution to cloud pictures.
Just a normal summer school holiday day in Cornwall.
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Look at the colour of the sea!
Ice (cold) Blue colour?
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Look at the colour of the sea!
Ice (cold) Blue colour?
I think that photo was taken on the "impressive Art" setting on my camera. I sometimes use it due to high humidity in the air as it causes the photos to look a little hazy on normal settings. The sea is pretty much that colour there at the Lang Ayre due to the red granite beach It was cold that day I think it was early November.
I walked the length of the beach and got a few snaps of Grey seal pups.
I will post one on the animals thread for you.
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Seemed to be so many different clouds in tonights sunset...
(https://i.postimg.cc/htZp95zM/3-A78905-F-BAF9-457-A-8-D3-A-CF2-BC4-C282-F5.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/pm8fvkBn)(https://i.postimg.cc/wBS2rRkm/AC1-C39-DD-BE27-4310-9341-11-B7-F0809857.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/XZk9GJmj)
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Excellent, what a lovely end to the day
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Foula (Ultima Thule) Taken from the top of Ronas Hill.
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Beautiful.... so clear, must be the clean air up there!
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These are a couple of “doesn’t that look like a bird” shots.
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That first one is awesome
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That first one is awesome
Agree, fantastic photo. Where is it MkPotato?
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It’s on the way into Canyonlands National Park in Utah. My wife took it.
Fantastic place.
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I agree it is a fantastic place.
I haven't been there since the early eighties,
Must go back!
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Clouds over the Drongs, Photgraphed from Stoura Pund.
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Stunning
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Both of these may be a bit overprocessed for some. This was Llandudno today. Another by my wife.
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Peak District
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Yes, perhaps a bit over processed for me because that makes them slightly less natural but still great pics.
Would be interesting to compare to the original, unprocessed photos.
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Yes, perhaps a bit over processed for me because that makes them slightly less natural but still great pics.
Would be interesting to compare to the original, unprocessed photos.
This is the Chrome Hill one. Bit lacking in impact, I think. Probably a less aggressive filter might work, but I quite like the surreal effect I got.
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The unprocessed one is much nicer imo :). Of course the processed one is also nice, but more as an art project because it looks like a surreal fairy tale or a computer game. But everybody knows the real world doesn't look like that so as a walking picture it is less powerful imo. :)
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The unprocessed one is much nicer imo :) . Of course the processed one is also nice, but more as an art project because it looks like a surreal fairy tale or a computer game. But everybody knows the real world doesn't look like that so as a walking picture it is less powerful imo. :)
It’s a good point ie a photo should reflect what the world looks like.
Many processing apps turn photos into more of an impressionistic and stylised version of the world.
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It’s a good point ie a photo should reflect what the world looks like.
Many processing apps turn photos into more of an impressionistic and stylised version of the world.
Photos don’t reflect what the world looks like, unless they are properly processed. Because of the image processing performed by our brains, what we perceive is not the same as what we see. Also, the selection of focal length, shutter speed, aperture, white balance, focal plane and exposure can easily produce a picture that we could not see naturally. Photography is an art form and should show what the photographer intends.
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Photos don’t reflect what the world looks like, unless they are properly processed. Because of the image processing performed by our brains, what we perceive is not the same as what we see. Also, the selection of focal length, shutter speed, aperture, white balance, focal plane and exposure can easily produce a picture that we could not see naturally. Photography is an art form and should show what the photographer intends.
Another good point!
I’m fond of a panorama shot, and they definitely don’t show the world as it appears.
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This one is unfiltered.
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It didn't need it! Gorgeous.
I agree with Birdman that the filtered shot of Chrome Hill is great as an art work and for a walks photo, the original more natural effect better evokes the countryside as we would perceive it.
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Mount Rainier, seen from the Pacific Crest Trail
(https://www.hikingbirdman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PCT_7_Sept_1.jpg)
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Now that is really beautiful, and a walk I’m sure many of us dream of.
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This was a dramatic sky over Snowdonia.
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This is very filtered, but the original looked a bit flat. Also not sure I’m quite horizontal, but I think the roof isn’t quite level.
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they are excellent Mkpotato.
I used to have a UV filter on my old Film camera and that always helped show the clouds as you saw them.
My compact doesn't allow me to put one on so sometimes it needs a help from the cameras creative art setting to show the clouds as you see them.
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this was one without help.
I notice I have got dust on my sensor, so have had to send the camera away to get it cleaned.
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Very nice. Almost perfectly still water, there.
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Beautiful symmetry!
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Weird sky this morning with both the sun and the moon putting down beams next to each other.
The moon looked like a rainbow in colour.
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Lovely picture Watershed - O0
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Bootiful, Watershed O0
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(https://i.ibb.co/mtJLhgt/Sunset-at-Otterton-Point-2.jpg)One from just before Christmas
Looking across from Otterton Point to Berry Head in the far left distance
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Kind of reminds me of all those amazing sunsets from last summer, thanks Jack O0
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Very lovely Jac . O0
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Lovely Jac - big big sky
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Thank you. I think it was best sunset I've ever experienced
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This is an old pic of mine, it was a long time before I noticed something odd in the sky, it's a genuine pic, I've not messed with it at all.(https://i.postimg.cc/xj3WnCK9/IMG-0098-reduced.jpg)
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This is an old pic of mine, it was a long time before I noticed something odd in the sky, it's a genuine pic, I've not messed with it at all.
Amazing! O0
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The ghost of Michelin Man perhaps? >:D
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That is weird!!
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Wow that's a Stormtropper O0
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Here's another odd one.
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Independence Day!