TEXAS........Even the Clouds are Bigger!

A quiet road and a busy sky. Comments/critiques always welcome.

Powerful grayscale shot, awesome sky.

Very well composed,brilliant b/w tones, perfect drama in the sky!

Beautiful dramatic sky.

Thanks again, Jim....and thank you Joseph. I had a full week of these skies, spread over a number of States. Thought it was very unusual but I certainly took advantage wherever/whenever I could. The exposure was metered on sky only and the entire foreground is very dark, almost black. HDR recovered the foreground with a click. From what I've been reading recently, it may not be long before we see it built into new cameras with Microsoft's new JPEG XR(extended range) format. It's already available as a plug-in for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 users (Free). Here's the Microsoft link for anyone interested.

<< http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b157ca0f-083f-4957-9aa3-4da1de3dc20b&DisplayLang=en >>

What a great sky. It looks as if the clouds are going to converge on that poor SUV shivering on the side of the road. A stunning capture.

Wonderful sky for sure Doug - what part of west Texas is this? - I'm asking because I recently drove from Texarkana to near El Paso .... Curious too if you have, or have considered using a Graduated ND filter ?

 

Also if you'll trade in this vehicle for say a 1948 Chevy pick-up you'll have ready made vintage post cards ... !? (-;

NIce shot Doug!Just think some never look up!

It would be neat with an older vehicle truck/car...

Nice deep tones.

J

Many thanks, Jeff, Ken, Janis. It was another gorgeous day in Texas.

 

Jeff.... It was 101 degrees F., and Blue didn't want to leave the air conditioning :-)

 

Ken .... I was heading North from a trip to Big Bend,and this was shot between Alpine and Marfa. I do have the graduated filters and probably 40 others but rarely use them now that the HDR process recovers almost all of the tonal range available with film. Truthfully, I never did like putting a flat glass filter directly in front of a curved lens as it alters the difffraction somewhat. Old habits die hard.

And trade my F-150 Super Crew for a 48 Chevy pickup?????. I wouldn't trade it for an antique Rolls :-).

 

Janis... I agree with both you and Ken. It would have been nice with something more interesting for a foreground. I thought about cloning over my truck but never got around to it.

I guess I was agreeing with him too! The sky is the shot Doug.

J