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Some good bad weather

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Posted by Joe Rogers on November 3, 2010 at 8:37 PM
Some good bad weather
I was generally blessed with great weather on my fall trip and and that was great, but, a couple of days it was bad.....and that was also great. The first image is near Silverton on a mining road one dreary morning and the second is a storm over Dallas Divide I caught coming down from Owl Creek Pass one afternoon. Thanks for looking and CC alway welcome.
Joe Rogers
Posted by Joe Rogers on November 3, 2010 at 8:38 PM
This is the Dallas Divide shot
Joe Rogers
Posted by Todd Caudle on November 3, 2010 at 9:16 PM
That first one gave me a stiffy. :eek:
Posted by Paul Wegemann on November 3, 2010 at 9:51 PM
Great drama in both of these. I'd like to see more detail in the shadows in #1 and maybe brighten up the golden leaves of the trees.It's hard not to like that sky in #2, but the dark foreground and the intrusion of the trees on the right kinda bug me. Maybe a slight crop from the bottom and from the right? Good stuff though. I wish I was there to have seen this.
Posted by John Mumaw on November 3, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Exactly what Paul said (..but not Todd!! :eek: ).
Selecting the foreground mountain in #1 and raising the curve in Curves does wonders. :wink:
Posted by Ken Wyatt on November 3, 2010 at 10:11 PM
The first looks like a watercolor - nice job!
Posted by Art Escobado on November 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM
Nice shots. I like #1! Ah #2 was a pretty epic night for everyone in the vicinity! It's been fascinating seeing all the different angles from that evening.
Posted by Morris McClung on November 3, 2010 at 11:43 PM
#1 looks like a Bierstadt painting. Great light! The second looks like one heck of a sky.
Posted by Soubhik Patranabis on November 3, 2010 at 11:58 PM
Dramatic clouds ..
Posted by Chris Martin on November 4, 2010 at 7:33 AM
Love those clouds in #2, and I'll echo Paul's suggestion for a crop. Great drama in both.
Posted by Jackson Frishman on November 4, 2010 at 11:25 AM
The clouds in #2 are great, but for me there's not a lot else in there. But #1 is exactly the kind of shot I love, colorfully but gloomy, chiarosuro, it's a beauty!
Posted by Richard Voninski on November 4, 2010 at 12:21 PM
I really like #1 and woudl like to see just a little bit more into the mountiantops on the left.

RichieV
Posted by Stan Rose on November 4, 2010 at 3:35 PM
LOVE #2! #1 is nice too, would like a tiny bit more detail in the shadows...
Posted by Guy Schmickle on November 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Talk about spectacular conditions! As others have mentioned, lightening that foreground ridge in #1 would help. The second works great as cloudscape type shot. I'd almost crop a little more of the foreground to accomplish that.
Posted by D J Kuklinski on November 5, 2010 at 5:48 PM
I'm partial to the first one, but the second is pretty good as well.
Posted by Dan Walters on November 7, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Like the color and the light hitting those clouds in the second image.
Posted by Jason J. Hatfield on November 7, 2010 at 9:41 PM
I really like the clouds in the first shot and agree it would look better lightened up on the ridge.