Helpful Posts: Actually; it was calm as anything and it was late evening. But the dark and stormy bit sounds better then "It was a Calm (with a bit of Cloud and the occasional light Breeze, just enough to keep the mosquitoes off), sort of late Evening or early Night (you know that early Twilight period where is a bit dark but not enough to be really either Evening or Night)"
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Thread: It was a dark and stormy night
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11th July 2016, 07:00 PM #1
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It was a dark and stormy night
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11th July 2016, 08:19 PM #2
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Beautiful image - I'd probably over process a scene like this so I won't offer any criticism, but I really like it.
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11th July 2016, 08:38 PM #3
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
I looked at your 500px site, you are too modest about the over processing. I would say you have very good control over your processing and hit the mark every time. Brilliant stuff.
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11th July 2016, 09:02 PM #4
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Nicely done. the lighting is beautiful, the image has good lines, and the foreground detail works. I don't have any suggestions for this one.
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11th July 2016, 09:33 PM #5
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Ooo, thats got a bit of drama to it
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11th July 2016, 10:00 PM #6
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
I love the light in this image, especially when viewed in the lightbox. And drama is right. It makes me want to be there, peaceful yet with anticipation.
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11th July 2016, 10:02 PM #7
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Trevor, very nice photograph. It really does not matter what you call early evening or whatever.
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11th July 2016, 11:09 PM #8
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Nicely done, love the lighting.
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12th July 2016, 01:28 AM #9
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
I like it a lot but the artful dodger in me always wants to have a play with an image when I see a bit more black than I'd like - emphasis on "than I'd like," as it is always a matter of personal taste as opposed to pretty much anything else.
I put an Ultra Darks luminosity mask with a blend mode of "Screen" and found that the darks lightened a bit just bounced up the yellows and greens in the grasses and gave a tad more detail in the far horizon area... Just an idea. I only use ACR and Photoshop 7 so could not possibly tell you how to do it in any other program but I suspect others on here can.
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12th July 2016, 03:38 AM #10
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Beautiful
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12th July 2016, 06:28 AM #11
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Lovely composition - makes me want to get on the water and go around that corner......
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12th July 2016, 09:05 AM #12
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Not your usual barn shot, but in reality if I see a dark cloud like this, I better hanker down and stay inside, wherever inside is. I kinda like the light shining from afar hugging the grass and the weeds/reeds and the lone tree...nice composition as always.
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12th July 2016, 09:34 AM #13
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Nice photo, and nice description. Very Douglas Adams.
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12th July 2016, 03:03 PM #14
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Post the result, I am always interested in other photographers interpretation. It is a useful learning exercise. Even if my program cannot quite do the same thing I can at least look at the final image and see what works. Originally Posted by ccphoto
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12th July 2016, 03:16 PM #15
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Just a smidge different...
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12th July 2016, 07:08 PM #16
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
A different vision, not as dark as mine. I will mull it over. Thanks for the posting, it is all grist for the mill.
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12th July 2016, 07:17 PM #17
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Very nice image Trevor
I think Chris brightened the image a bit too much . IMO some darks and shadows are needed with those dramatic clouds. So, an edit between yours and his might work fine
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12th July 2016, 08:54 PM #18
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
Any place where I opened up the darkest darks, I went back in and made sure the mask didn't affect the clouds. I was looking at the brightest part of the sky and thinking there should be more of that light on the grasses since they were lower to the horizon. Binnur may be correct in a nice place somewhere in the middle but it is still your vision and wherever that falls I think will make us all smile.
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12th July 2016, 10:34 PM #19
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Re: It was a dark and stormy night
This looks like you've captured...(are you ready for this?).....the EDGE of Night.
Very nice shot.
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