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Thunder Cloud
Thunder Cloud
JuliBoc


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Camera: Olympus C-765UZ
Location: Delray Beach, FL
Date: May 20, 2009
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: May 20, 2009

Viewed: 532
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

 Snapped this shot in the park this morning with my "purse camera". I spotted it while doing my exercise routine. Wish I had a nicer foreground.

I wanted the cloud to be dramatic without making the sun rays seem fake. That was hard. I had to mask the blue on a lot of the Topaz layers.

- Color Balance adjustment to remove blue cast
- TA custom layer for exposure and detail
- TA smooth and flat preset
- TA custom layer (lighter color mode) with noise reduction
- Another color balance layer to reduce blue cast that Topaz added to the cloud
- Noiseware
- Removed a palm tree
- TA HDR Mild preset 75% opacity (lighter color mode)
- Soft light layer to lightly burn the corners
- Adamus sharpening

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 05/25/2009 01:15:15 PM
Fantastic! That is an awesome storm cloud, so very Florida!
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 05/22/2009 06:24:54 AM
i really like how the details in the clouds are pulled out through your processing - thanks for the detailed description of the steps!
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 05/22/2009 06:12:43 AM
Wow, Julianne! What a great shot!!!
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 05/21/2009 12:20:50 AM
By custom layer do you mean you just open a layer in Topaz and play with the sliders for what you want to do? Really a nice edit on this one and superb job of removing the one tree!
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 05/20/2009 11:49:34 PM
That is some incredible cloud formation! The sky looks fabulous, really fabulous. I love this!!!
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 05/20/2009 11:04:20 PM
Love how it brightened this up and made it pop.
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 05/20/2009 07:27:08 PM
fascinating cloud formation. If I saw one of those, it's entirely possible I'd run for cover (thus getting that exercise routine done in double time!!!)
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 05/20/2009 04:57:30 PM
This is pretty cool. I have your original and edit open in separate tabs, and going back and forth between them makes it look like there is a giant lightbulb inside the cloud that is turning on and off.
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 05/20/2009 04:33:48 PM
A nicer foreground? Are you kidding? "Oh, what, THESE little waterfront condos? These old things? Pshaw..." ;) Kidding aside, nice job with the processing, and good job cloning out the scrubby tree.
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