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Storm on the Mississippi
Storm on the Mississippi
littlemav


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Challenge: Best of 2011 (Advanced Editing VII)
Location: Memphis TN
Date: Jul 31, 2011
Aperture: f7
ISO: 200
Shutter: 2.0
Date Uploaded: Jan 27, 2012

 on tripod, shot this and didn't even see the 3rd little bolt of lighting until I got home and down loaded. RAW editor, adjusted exposure, set white balance, took down oranges and up luminance on oranges, Denoised, adj curves highlights, and lights a tish, tinyest bit of fill light, took blues down a tiny bit. Straightened shot. CS5 cropped, adjusted hue, made layer copy, topaz with dramatic setting, back to PS, adjusted the fill on the topaz layer. Saved as Tiff, reopened in RAW, adjusted curves hilight up again a tiny bit, denoised again, adjusted blue saturation, and took more out in the orange. Open CS5 dodge cloud tops and lighting, reduced size sharpened, reduced again, unsharp mask, saved for web
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I don't know if I did right with the crop... tried several but liked the Massiveness(word?) of the clouds in this.. I was sitting on the banks of the Mississippi in Memphis shooting sunsets when I turned around and saw this storm forming. The only thing really cropped out is a small area of the street below the houses on the hill and some street lights, which were very distracting. Hope I did justice to this awesome scene I was privilaged to view!

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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 12/23/2012 05:53:32 PM
Great capture! I’m still waiting to get I nice lightning shot myself. I would be proud to have one like this.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 12/23/2012 03:01:06 PM
Love this shot - the drama in the sky is so in contrast with the peaceful looking houses with their lights softly glowing.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 12/22/2012 10:04:47 PM
This is just amazing, Katie
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 02/24/2012 12:56:39 AM
Wow great lightning capture, Katie! This kind of shot can be tough to get, especially as you don't want to drown your camera getting it :-)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/23/2012 05:50:31 PM
Great sky!!
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Apple iPhone 15 Pro
 02/22/2012 12:26:42 PM
What a sky.
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Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM
 02/20/2012 09:00:25 PM
Where is the river?
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8
 02/18/2012 08:44:20 PM
Nicely captured.
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Canon EOS R6
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 02/18/2012 06:56:36 PM
I definitely like the way you framed this shot. Makes the houses seem so small in the big picture.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/18/2012 01:46:23 AM
Dramatic sky and great processing.
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Canon Canon 1d x Mark II
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 FG HSM Art
 02/15/2012 08:40:05 PM
Hope it didn't bring too much damage, lovely houses amongst ferocious clouds, nice.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 02/15/2012 04:03:13 PM
Like the clouds is swallowing that village
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Canon Mount
02/15/2012 06:47:52 AM
nice lightning capture, but there is no foreground to speak of so the houses are really detracting from this image.
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Apple iPhone 5
 02/13/2012 09:09:48 PM
Very powerful photograph.
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 02/13/2012 01:12:00 PM
I like the ominous negative space.
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 02/12/2012 02:04:07 PM
Loving those clouds~~~
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/10/2012 11:32:17 PM
What an impressive photograph to wander through! Very nicely composed and exposed. Love the stars.
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 02/10/2012 05:23:46 PM
Wonderful clouds!

Perhaps a crop off the top (midway between the two stars on right) and ... maybe even at the second tree from the left... Yeah... I know that gets rid of most of the lightening, but I think a closer crop would give us more intimacy with the storm.

I love the colors and that you've included the houses to give us scale.

Lovely. Truly.
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Fisher Price Kid-Tough Digital
 02/10/2012 07:33:35 AM
Not bad, but I have a felling when I look at this image that the bottom part is missing, needs foreground.
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