Posted by Steve Hamley on December 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Folks,
Here's a bad weather shot that you usually see as a blue-sky autumn shot.
I headed to Cades Cove that rainy Tuesday in the fourth week of October. The weather was raining and completely fogged in at the Rich Mountain overlook, so I set the camera up and threw a cover over it. Lo and behold, the rain stopped and the clouds parted long enough for me to get four shots before the clouds completely obscured the church again. The problem with sunny-day shots is that there are usually people and cars visible on the road, along with sun-on-the-windshield problems. People clone these out in Photoshop these days, but being a photographic Luddite, I prefer to get what I want without the digital manipulation. But there was no skill at all to it; it was all “luck”.
Taken with a 10-3/4" Goerz Artar at about f/22 on Velveeta 100 with my trusty 4x5 Ebony field camera. They scanned the transparency for me at work since at the time my scanner was dead, and I'm not sure all those colors next to the church really exist in nature.
Cheers, Steve
Posted by Sandy Young on December 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Great shot. Congrats. Love the low clouds. - SandyLee
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1 repliesHere's a bad weather shot that you usually see as a blue-sky autumn shot.
I headed to Cades Cove that rainy Tuesday in the fourth week of October. The weather was raining and completely fogged in at the Rich Mountain overlook, so I set the camera up and threw a cover over it. Lo and behold, the rain stopped and the clouds parted long enough for me to get four shots before the clouds completely obscured the church again. The problem with sunny-day shots is that there are usually people and cars visible on the road, along with sun-on-the-windshield problems. People clone these out in Photoshop these days, but being a photographic Luddite, I prefer to get what I want without the digital manipulation. But there was no skill at all to it; it was all “luck”.
Taken with a 10-3/4" Goerz Artar at about f/22 on Velveeta 100 with my trusty 4x5 Ebony field camera. They scanned the transparency for me at work since at the time my scanner was dead, and I'm not sure all those colors next to the church really exist in nature.
Cheers, Steve