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Really nice, love the lightening. Its too saturated in the blues, and too magenta and cyan for me. I took it into photoshop. desat the blues by 50 and Cyans by 30. Then used color balance and made it 2 red, 2 green, and 3 yellow. I think it helps to give the greens a green look and the clouds a more natural greyish look.
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Ok, well, try what works for you. You can also selectively mask the desat so that the clouds get it, but the plants don't as well.
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Yup, got it.
I tried now and what works best for me is just a slight adjustment in "color balance". The storm clouds were deep blue on multiple occasions during our trip, so didn't want to get rid of that look&feel.
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Hi Morkel, great capture, nice and ominous! Must have been quite a spectacle. I don't mind the blue color of the clouds too much, although I do think that the blue cast on the plants is a bit too much. I am bothered a bit by the quite overpowering empty sand patch in the FG, which draws my eye away from that spectacular storm. I tried several crops from the bottom, but I'm not sure what I like best. Two options I liked: 1) crop from the bottom until the diagonal line of grass on the hill in the FG ends in the LL corner; 2) slightly above that, placing the horizon in the middle of the frame (yes, breaking the rules of landscape photography!).
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Hi Morkel, lovely storm scene. Those ominous clouds and lightning bolt really make this image. I like the clouds in Dvir's repost as the gray tones make them even more threatening, giving a real sense of the weather before you...somewhere in between would probably work well too.
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Hi Morkel
A really Good capture... those clouds are very ominous, and any close strikes would have had me scurrying inside, assuming there was an inside to scurry to... Of the suggestions made I like the option 1 crop Of jerries, with reduced FG, as I do think the cloud is the hero in the image and that line of grass works as a lead for me from the corner to the cloud. I also prefer the colours in Dvir's post although I understand why you wont want to change from what you saw...
I hope you both enjoyed your trip..
DON
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Hi Morkel, I slept in the same place, killikrankie. Dramatic scenery. I agree more with Jerry: I mind more for the FG as the grass in FG distract my eye from the dramatic sky. I should crop a part of the bottom.
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This is fantastic Morkel. I can't believe you got a lightning bolt shooting at 1/60! The placement of the bolt even helps with your compositional balance. I love the blue in the clouds, but could see it might be a little heavy in the plants. I also think a little crop from the bottom would do you some good. I'd crop until there's just a little bit of sand underneath the plant in the middle.
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Wonderful image Morkel I like the original colors but I that type of guy.