Lenticular Clouds over Tufa Tower

Taken from my winter kayaking trip at Mono Lake, these were some

really cool lenticular clouds that formed in the evening while I was

at South Tufa Grove. I took a few different compositions of various

focal lengths. I really like lenticular clouds. Even more than

pizza. Any comments welcomed, gracias.

Beautiful image. Wow, I love those clouds too. I don't know why I'm seeing what looks like grain with the velvia 50? I thought I'd run this through NeatImage & see what happens. What do you think? Maybe my edit takes too much detail out, I don't know. This is is a very good shot.

-s

Brian....yes it does look like there is a lot of grain in this image, and it is ulike of your other spectacular images.But Spencer did a great job of cleaning it up, which also just adding to the fact that your picture is a damn good one...I will give you a 7/7 what about that!!

at first I have seen the impressive clouds, then the grain. so I thougt I should try to filter it with neat image... but spencer was faster :-) so I want to say, that the version with neat for me is the better one - it?s a great tool !

anyway, the image is great. but, in my point of view, the tower in the right corner is not the best choise of composition.

cheers florian

Wow, S Spencer, that was really cool what you did! I have no idea why there would be grain in my Velvia 50 (maybe it needed fiber?), perhaps it was due to filthy lenses from kayaking a very mineral laden and salty lake for a few days? I dunno. I hadn't heard of that program you used, but it's pretty sweet!

I agree the single tufa composition isn't that great but from my position I couldn't get a shot of the clouds without it. A wider perspective will show what I mean, so maybe I'll post another in a couple days or so.

Thanks for the comments!

my expirence with film is, that you allways (does not mather what kind of film/iso you use) have grain after scanning. I think this is normal an physicaly/technicaly based. You can reduce it in photoshop, or you use tools to manage it.

i tried to crop your image, its just a suggestion. but its not really better I think ...

cheers florian