December Photo Competition: "Weather"

[mhendo]

Some great pictures this month. Chorlton, your pictures of Helvellyn certainly bring back memories. I lived on Ullswater for over a year, and Striding Edge was one of my favorite parts of any Lakes District walk.

Anyway, once again i failed to keep my promise to myself that i was going to go out and shoot something specifically for the competition, so i've dragged a couple out of the files. I'm only submitting two right now, though, because i'm currently in San Francisco and i'm hoping to get out with my camera in the next few days, and maybe some of the city's famous fog will provide an opportunity for me to snap another entry.

Anyway, here are the two i've chosen:

Covered - taken right after a big snowstorm here in Baltimore in February, 2003.

Breaking Through - sunlight piercing the clouds over Borrowdale, Cumbria. Taken during my sojourn there in the early nineties.

Merry Christmas, all.

 

[Robster970]

last one for this month, taken on boxing day and the clouds looked great. levels tweeked in ps.

boxing day

 

[Firky]

Water Spout. It's a tornado that we spotted a little way offshore on the last day of our holiday to Menorca this year. The photo is completely unaltered.

That would scare the shit out of me.

 

[snadge]

well I buggered up didn't I , entered my 3 and managed to get a cracker the other day, should have left an entry open

NOT AN ENTRY

 

[Tort]

well I buggered up didn't I , entered my 3 and managed to get a cracker the other day, should have left an entry open

NOT AN ENTRY

That is just a phenominal piece of photography!

 

[snadge]

That is just a phenominal piece of photography!

thanks, it wouldn't have been apart from photoshop and a lot of advice from a forum I'm on

tip for abysmal day photography, shoot in raw and slightly overexpose, there is more information kept in blown highlights than there is in the underexposed shadows

original

 

[Stanley Edwards]

well I buggered up didn't I , entered my 3 and managed to get a cracker the other day, should have left an entry open

NOT AN ENTRY

Gorgeous. You should try sending it off to one of those poster printer type websites. I'm sure it's a seller.

How big is the original and the manipulated file?

 

[Firky]

well I buggered up didn't I , entered my 3 and managed to get a cracker the other day, should have left an entry open

NOT AN ENTRY

 

[snadge]

Gorgeous. You should try sending it off to one of those poster printer type websites. I'm sure it's a seller.

How big is the original and the manipulated file?

just over 70mb as a PSD, I can double the size of it by interlopating the picture double size in photoshops raw converter which would give you ba 24.2 mp picture.

for those that are interested, 3 versions of raw opened, one under exposed one normal and one over, all with different colour saturations, 3 files used as layers, creative dodging and burning between the three and flattened, and you get your finished image.

BTW thanks Firky, I feel as though I would have walked it with that, one of the best pics I've took, I was fucking soaking

 

[hiccup]

Muddy Puddle

 

[hiccup]

well I buggered up didn't I , entered my 3 and managed to get a cracker the other day, should have left an entry open

NOT AN ENTRY

If you tell me which photo you'd like it to replace, I'll happily amend the thumbnails page.

 

[hiccup]

The t'umbnails have been updated. 87 entries so far...

 

[trashpony]

well I buggered up didn't I , entered my 3 and managed to get a cracker the other day, should have left an entry open

NOT AN ENTRY

On dial up at home, usually too much hassle to look at this thread but I'm really glad I've seen this - it's a beautiful, beautiful photo.

And it's made me want to dust off my pshop skills with all your talk of dodging and burning!

 

[snadge]

If you tell me which photo you'd like it to replace, I'll happily amend the thumbnails page.

I thought that you couldn't change entries but if I can I'll swop it for entry 3.

 

[hiccup]

I thought that you couldn't change entries but if I can I'll swop it for entry 3.

Well, it is Christmas

 

[snadge]

Well, it is Christmas

merry merry

 

[Masonic Mystery]

Some excellent entries so far, I've nothing in my library to compete against them, I figure i'd best get out with the camera.

 

[Paul Russell]

Anyway, here are the two i've chosen:

Covered - taken right after a big snowstorm here in Baltimore in February, 2003.

Nice one!

 

[dlx1]

lol The Gritty Reality and Risk

4 days to go I better get bizzy

 

[Louloubelle]

lol The Gritty Reality and Risk

4 days to go I better get bizzy

The weather better get busy

Looks out of window at boring weather

 

[KeeperofDragons]

Okay after a stiff talking to from Hocus I decided to enter 2 pics

1: Snow, what fecking snow!! - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/KeeperofDragons/shades of grey/snowno.jpg

2: Misty morning at work - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/KeeperofDragons/shades of grey/mistymoring.jpg

KoD

 

[Firky]

Our weather really is shite, init!

 

[atomik]

I got another one to add to bring my total up to three

Fair Storm

Taken on Southend sea front on Boxing Day.

 

[Firky]

Southend...

 

[mhendo]

Fair Storm

Very nice.

Sunlight scenes in front of dark clouds always make for a moody picture.

 

[kage]

Steam rising from a paper mill , taken this evening from a street behind my house. Québec.

 

[DG55]

Standing Water
http://www.unknownbeings.co.uk/photography/abstract/images/008_reflections.jpg

 

[dlx1]

Ride The Wave
Blue Bird

Time saver: Thumnails

Happy new year

 

[blackadder]

There are some fantastic photos this month, anyway, here is my first.


M&S

 

[blackadder]

My 2nd entry is


Beach sport