storms and lightning After the storm II

Very nice job Chris. I especially like the reflection on the water. You also have some great shots of Bryce Canyon on your web site. Excellent work.

Beautiful picture, great colors! WJ

This shot looks to me like you had a GND filter on but had it oriented from right to left (light to dark) instead of bottom to top. Yes, I like the colors, and yes the composition is fine, but it really screams out to me that the GND filter was oriented the wrong way for this composition.

There was no ND filter used. I used a 24mm lens, and dodged the beach on the LS in PS, because my scanner had a hard time with the detail. Use of a ND filter would have been all but impossible, while still getting the cloud formations crisp, and maintaining a reasonable depth of field. Thanks for your comments :-)

Chris, I am sure I commented on this b4 ... nice color and cloud formation. The arc formed by the cloud goes well with the arc form by the shoreline. Excellent shot!

I've posted for critique before, but I'd like more input, please....

Thanks.

Nice work,I do like the spectacular cloud .

I just love the fact that sky and water are the only things that have colour in the image. The strangely shaped cloud looks almost like it's coming from a volcano and adds a lot of movement to the scene. Great job!

Great shot. The storm is fading away and sun illuminates the scary looking cloud making it more peaceful. Only deep shadows still remind what was happening here a few hours ago... Nice catch, excellent execution.

It's hard to criticize a photo this nice. The water refections and cloud detail are fantastic.

Chris, why did you decide to use Provia 100F on this one? Please.

I used 100F mainly for speed. It was relatively dim light and the clouds were really hauling butt. I wanted to use a smaller aperture also, but the resultant shutterspeed was too slow to freeze the clouds. I also shot this scene with Velvia, but my scanner really has a tough time with dense slides. The image posted in my gallery is substantially inferior to the slide.

Great sky. I'd have prefered it a bit darker here as well. And I find what's on the ground lacks a bit of visual appeal. Regards.