Wind Blown Clouds at Tiny Marsh

[Andrew McLachlan]

An image from a couple of years ago at one of my favorite locations - Tiny Marsh. Tiny Marsh is actually a very large wetland (800 hectares) and many of the Bosque images posted here remind me of this wetland. It was a November morning with a bitter cold wind blowing rather strongly. The eastern sky was going to be a dud on this morning so I turned around to see what was going on in the western sky. I figured there was no hope for sharp clouds, due to wind, so I put my polarizing filter and a 3-stop ND for a long exposure to capture the movement in the clouds.

Nikon D200
Nikon 12-24mm lens @ 24mm
ISO 100
f22 @ 30 seconds
polarizing filter
3-stop ND filter

Look forward to comments.

[Steve Adkins]

Lovely image, Andrew! The sky color and reflection are very dramatic. The cloud movement is a wonderful bonus. It looks COLD!

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Like the cloud movement and colors, and the reflection and texture of the water is really nice.

[dankearl]

Wild colors, Andrew. It looks pretty stylized.
It has a very nice watercolor look to it.
Very nice.

[Rachel Hollander]

Andrew - sorry, a little late to this one. Wild colors and I like the cloud movement and how it shows in the reflection. One nit- there seems to be a halo at the top of the trees.

TFS,
Rachel

[Robert Amoruso]

Andrew,

Next time you use the ND filters, turn on the camera's live view and look at the scene with and without the filter and note if the filter introduces a magenta color cast. If so this is IR (infrared) pollution. You need a IR Blocking filter.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Love the cloud movement and mood here Andrew. I was curious about the strong magenta cast but Robert explained it nicely...should be easy toning it down though?

[Andrew Aveley]

cast here is coooool !! Great use of the filter and great comp

[Andrew McLachlan]

Thanks folks for the comments. I'll play around with reducing the magenta cast for an alternate version. Much appreciated.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Andrew,
In many cases I don't like what the ND does to cloud mvement....but it works here for me! I would just tone down the magenta in the FG.....sky looks great as is with the soft pastel colors.