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02/09/2007 06:33:41 AM · #1 |
When was the last time you got high? I mean really, really high?
It's where the cool clouds are:
  
  
All were taken somewhere over the Midwest, between Ohio & California.
Post-processing for all 6 took about 4 minutes - image, levels, options, default, then sharpen, neat image, resize, & border.
No filters were used on the camera, and was little more than point & shoot - just happened to be in the right place.
Message edited by author 2007-02-09 11:19:55.
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02/09/2007 06:34:25 AM · #2 |
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02/09/2007 07:32:13 AM · #3 |
Wow indeed! ... Nice grabs, Brad.
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02/09/2007 07:34:07 AM · #4 |
I'm so jealous! Great work there!
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02/09/2007 08:33:12 AM · #5 |
great images. I am now looking forward to my next flight :)
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02/09/2007 08:38:07 AM · #6 |
| really nice stuff, brad. i think it's proof that we live in a world continuously visited by aliens and UFOs; otherwise, how would some many of the early masters have been able to render such incredibly detailed clouds without having visited them the way you did... |
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02/09/2007 11:18:26 AM · #7 |
Maybe they had big slingshots?
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02/09/2007 11:24:05 AM · #8 |
Reminds me a lot of Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography & Creative Thinking by Julieanne Kost
Interesting book. Not sure I'd recommend it, but it was interesting.
Oh and you should try using a polariser next time. Just don't enter the results in a challenge ;)
Message edited by author 2007-02-09 11:45:03.
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02/09/2007 11:42:38 AM · #9 |
Did you use a tri-pod?
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02/09/2007 04:18:30 PM · #10 |
Oh Oh!! Can I play?? Pretty please?? :-) Looking at yours Brad, reminded me of some I took on my last trip back from California. There were the coolest clouds up there. Took me a bit to find the folder, but here they are. yay!! I love big fluffy white clouds. These were all taken right before descending into the Atlanta Airport. Hope you don't mind me sharing your thread. ;-)
   
PP was mainly auto levels, auto contrast and auto color, resized and a Luko USM. I think I used a cooling filter on the second one but I don't think I like it too much compared to the others. :)
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02/09/2007 04:31:16 PM · #11 |
Yay - it's a cloud party! 
Well, for two of us anyway.
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02/10/2007 12:16:38 AM · #12 |
Does being IN one count? :P
Okay, okay, you've inspired me. Now poking through I took coming home from last summer's Alps trip and another up to Vermont.
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02/10/2007 12:27:12 AM · #13 |
Ya made me homesick of when I was flying the F-4 Phantom II Jet fighter. It was great chasing such clouds through the sky. On the big fluffy ones (not heavy and dark thunderstorms) I've been able to fly so close that one wing was deep within the cloud and the cockpit stay in the clear blue sky. Wow what a sensation of speed that was. 500 knots and only a few feet from the cloud.
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02/10/2007 12:58:21 AM · #14 |
Okay, I found one from each my two trips last summer. Brad, what you do in minutes of processing takes mere mortals a bit longer. :)
Edited to add that this is one of my favorite cloud pics, even though the main feature is called "cumulogranite."
Message edited by author 2007-02-10 00:59:37.
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02/10/2007 01:01:03 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by jenesis:
Oh Oh!! Can I play?? |
Me too!! Me too!!
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:)
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02/10/2007 01:26:12 AM · #16 |
waaah! i've never flown so i have no fluffy cloud pics. :(
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02/10/2007 01:33:12 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by sher9204:
waaah! i've never flown so i have no fluffy cloud pics. :( |
Just use the SC jet. They did give you a set of keys, right?
Seriously, I note your camera costs some money, so spend some a little of what's left and go somewhere for a night. Heck, come to DC. We have a guest room. :)
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02/10/2007 01:36:30 AM · #18 |
Sometimes they are better from the ground. This one looked like one of my neighbors had just set off his Mattel Home Nuclear device.
But it was only a storm passing through. This is a closeup of that cloud:
(and for those who prefer color, it was sunset at the time:
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02/10/2007 01:44:57 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by levyj413:
Originally posted by sher9204:
waaah! i've never flown so i have no fluffy cloud pics. :( |
Just use the SC jet. They did give you a set of keys, right?
Seriously, I note your camera costs some money, so spend some a little of what's left and go somewhere for a night. Heck, come to DC. We have a guest room. :) |
Hmmm...haven't received my keys to the SC jet. i'll have to check on that!
and my camera, lenses and the rest of my gear were all lovingly and graciously given to me by the fine people here in our DPC family. i say a prayer of thanks for them every day. :)
Free 300D
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02/10/2007 01:53:11 AM · #20 |
Inspired me to re-edit one from last summer :)
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02/10/2007 02:01:18 AM · #21 |
One from 2005 that I processed in Bibble tonight.
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02/10/2007 02:35:36 AM · #22 |
got hooked into playing around with my new Bibble filters tonight and tried a few different versions of a pic. Which one do you like best? (or do you hate them all)
Original:
AnselPro filter:
AnselPro + Andy filters:
AnselPro + Andy + Tony filters:
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02/10/2007 03:50:28 AM · #23 |
Reading this thread, I thought I actually could make some use of the portfolio - haven't done so up to now.
The clouds aren't that fancy, but I liked the view of the sea below the clouds.
I'm not too sure whether the light breaking in the scratches on the window actually adds to or subtracts from the image. Didn't want to step out to try without the window in front of me, though ;-) .
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