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Yes Hans, the wall of a towering nimbus provided gold backdrop to lower pink/red cumulus at sundown..As you know, timing is everything.
Altocumulus catches the last rays of the day..
Arizona Sunset #58
hygge..I try to keep my pics to be posted here under 1mb..like 4″x5″ ,,generally no bigger than 4×7.
Professional photogs are anchored by..what sells. They are trying to sell their photos. Perhaps thats all we get to see; what they think will sell. Maybe they have files full of art,,but don’t display it because it won’t sell..maybe not. I am not weighted down so much by what sells cuz I’m not selling anything. Heck, just ask and I’ll send a file of any pic I have. Point being,,we’re about clouds so clouds tend to come first in our presentations. Landscapes see clouds as accessories to the earth in most cases. I rather use earth as a helper to the clouds, ie, for scale, or orientation or maybe contrast. Clouds are free,,free to us and free to behave as physics allow. So not only un-anchored, unencumbered sense,but by that,,to be quick as the clouds and maybe even quicker to capture the freedom manifested by clouds,is difficult enough but even more so if you’re trying to capture the shot that will ” sell”.Me, I see ” interesting” starting to develop , I bring the camera up to my eye. I can’t be worried about perfection. I do what I can to fix things when I process the shots.
So Pros are taught to imagine, or ” see” their photo first and then go photograph it..Pros craftmanship is top notch tho. Has to be. But here, size covers errors and flaws and here is all digital . Make 11×14 or 14 x 16 out of most shots posted here and in the gallery…things start coming apart. Where as ..pros start at 11 x 14.
Heres a cloudscape thats more velum than anything except maybe the wind,,which we don’t see.
Arizona Cloudscape #86
