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    Taken in the late rainy season on Linyanti wetlands between Namibia and Botswana around 6 years ago now.....

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    PP wise, tried double processing the image with two slightly different WB. Any PP advice on how to get some more definition in the clouds would be great :)
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    Hi Russell - Nice scene with the distant storm. There's a little bit of a red cast to the clouds that seems out of place to me. For clouds like these judicious use of shadow and highlight adjustments sometimes helps bring out more detail and also some local contrast enhancement (LCE). Give those a try.

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    Nice scene Russel. I think overall it could use a bump in midtone contrast as presented. Not sure which WB settings you applied to which section but something seems strange, can't put my finger on it at the moment.
    Like Rachel said - local contrast enhancement (or Nik Tonal Contrast) applied selectively to the clouds should add some nice definition (easy to overdo too...)

    This could work well in mono?
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    Hi Russell,
    great stormy sky with some animals on the ground adding interest to the lower part.Good choice of land /sky ratio.
    I would try to tone the FG and give it more depth by using a red channel overlay , but selectively .Inverted!!!!
    The sky - duplicate the red channel , multiply the red channel with itself, load that alpha channel as selection and make a curves layer set to multiply , blur the mask by 15 pixel gaussian, on top make a new curves layer set to overlay or hard light and clip it with the underlying multiplied layer.Now set the visibility of both layers to your taste.
    Now make the two curves layers active and CMD / CTRL +G , add layer mask to that group, invert the mask , now paint with FGC set white ,where you want to see the effect. I hope it is all clear. At least for me , LOL.

    TFS Andreas

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    Hi Russell,

    great scene. Somehow the clouds take over the whole scene, but does not disturb me at all. I might would add a touch more punch the the grass. Just y thoughts on this one

    Have a great eve

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    Hi Russell can you tell me, why didn't you use a CP, or did you?

    Like Ed's posting, I like the smaller aspect in frame with the dominating clouds as the backdrop, not sure if the birds add anything to the image, especially at this size, but... Based on the posting you can get more from within the clouds via LR then exporting to PS, however like the OP you do get casts within the whites which is hard to remove with out effecting other colours. Certainly adding a Channel mid tone to the FG brings out more detail & depth in the land part which IMHO is better. I think reverting back to the RAW and doing what you did via Double processing or more maybe the route as per your original thoughts, but to achieve what you are after perhaps should have been more though 'in camera' technique?

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    Nice - for me the elephants need to be a little larger in the frame.... Agree with the other comments above, especially about the red in the sky.
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    Gotta love the clouds.. Well done!

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