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Keelin looks like your crab is about to get ate up. !!..I like the shot, its looks as if it was painted,,the Edges. Just enough greys to keep the black and white behaving themselves. Speakin about greys,,
A Windy Day
Hans ,Magritte is my favorite Surrealist painter. I estimate at least 75% of his paintings have cloud. The original Surrealists encouraged cloud watching because they believed, rightly so imho, the practice was good for developing the imagination . Magrittes classics ” False Mirror ” and ” Grand Family” rely heavily on Clouds as metaphor.
This shot has subtle vertical mist rising through the undulations like our thoughts escaping the mundane.
Hans, nice capture of your rarity. Fortunately my work place is close to the beginnings of increased elevation at the north eastern edge of the valley, so Lennies aren’t rare but most of the time they aren’t spectacular. Most are one cloud bean pods as the pic above illustrates. Yet when they conspire to be spectacular, they are ,as a recent contribution to the gallery demonstrates,,imho anyway. Yes, on the edge of systems or in between seems their popular place yet when monsoon season arrives they can be right next to cumulus. But for predictability..places like Andy Kirk’s Owen’s Valley in California tops out in foreseeable. I always take time to photograph lennies no matter where or when. Haa!,maybe a night shot of a lenny could happen…?
anyway,
Dropping The Veil
Shooting Up Thru The Clouds Exposes The Tumult of Their Passing. Keelin nice capture! And Welcome D Thwaites! Great Title For The Cloud Shot, ” Dream Trees”!
So Allow Me To Turn Everything On Its Head With a Recent Shot Of Lennies , for the heck of it!.
I’ve always liked Paul Klee’s work. I think He noticed the clouds. You’ve got the idea Keelin. If You open your mind to any possibility, the Clouds will provide.
The color on the above is manipulated for contrast. Slow and small increments of changing, is the key to working Adobe lightroom color. . Clarity, vibrancy and saturation do the general work along with contrast. You can spend time adjusting every hue if you want. Lots to get lost in. One neat feature is white balance..You know the yellow browns you get when shooting around approaching sun set? White Balance correction can get rid of the browns for whites and blues.
The picture below thought it was going to be a Mona Lisa but The Winds had a different idea.. Taken during the same event it shows a warmer atmosphere than those above. For contrast ,I manipulated the above forWhite balance. Its easy enough to learn. As in all digital..its just a matter of..click and dragging..After you get that right then punch it up with Clarity, Vibrancy Saturation etc. Color is like BW but a lot more consequential..No adjustment is free..Adjust one element and another reacts…For every adjustment there seems a opposite adjustment somewhere else. So I make slow and small incremental adjustments with color.
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