Angry Clouds
May.31, 2008
Storm season in Minnesota is always interesting. I headed towards downtown Minneapolis to catch the sunset on the skyline with storm clouds in the background, but got there to late (sun had disappeared behind some clouds). As I got home the sirens were sounding. Drove up to the hill and caught a bunch of snapshots of clouds rolling and churning.
Update:
Stumbled across this shot taken by a another Twin Cities Pblogger, Northmetro.blogspot.com. Same storm. That has just got to be the same reptile looking cloud extension, except from the other side. Don’t you think?
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June 16th, 2008 on 8:47 pm
I am willing to bet a 70-200 L series lens that this is the same cloud formation. My shot was taken from the northwestern burbs as the storm headed south eastward.
BTW, for my pic, I oversaturated the color channels and converted to B&W. I was trying to mimic an infrared pic. I like the way infrared B&W photos look, I just haven’t purchased a IR filter.
June 17th, 2008 on 6:20 pm
You did a good job on mimicking an infrared shot. I’ve tried some IR shots with a filter and they didn’t turn out very well. Maybe because I was using a kit lens. Recently bought a 17-40L and might try again. Of course I’ll have to buy a larger filter.
One problem I ran into is what’s called a ‘hot spot’ on some of my shots. Some lenses have it some don’t. For more info check http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/photo/ir.html or http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00HyNM
Let’s compare shots again next time a storm rolls through. You from the west and me from the east :)
June 26th, 2008 on 3:19 pm
Thank you, thanks for the links. I’ve been debating about buying an IR filter, they’re not cheap. I have that plasticy 50mm 1.8 that I may use for such IR B&W work. IR is new to me, so it will be a learn as I go process.