Clouds

[admajic]

Here is my fav topic! Couldnt get out so these are from the back of my place. Sky was so amazingly sick looking. Looks like marbled meat! A bit of PP and there u go. C & C as always. Enjoy!
Adam

[stubbsy]

Adam

As nice as the clouds are I feel you are falling too much into the habit of seriously overdoing the saturation on your shots to the extent that they no longer look natural. The first one is the worst offender of these two. I've never seen a sky that cyan colour before.

These are good images and they don't need to be this overstaurated to have appeal.

[wendellt]

yeah very surreal
although the suburban froth inthe foreground bothers this image
eithercompositionally focus on the clouds by shooting higher
woudl of been a good shot too if you got a silhouette of somone with the clouds behind by shooting low

[Nnnnsic]

I agree with Stubbsy.

These shots have been oversaturated to buggery.

There's something to remember for over-saturating shots and it's much like everything else: know when to stop.

I also think that while the 1st shot isn't bad (the second one's composition doesn't do much for me), you need to pull some detail from the shadows a bit.

[mudder]

Wow, the saturation is probably a bit strong for me but terrific surreal effect...

Was the sat in RGB or LAB??? Might be able to get a similar level of color sat via curves in LAB but less "in your face" sort of thing maybe?

[deaw]

hey adam, was just wodering what settings you shot these pics on thanks mate dan.

[admajic]

Hey! Thanks for the comments! I agree that the colours arent natural and maybe/maybe not thats a bad thing? I made a Black and white ver and that looked pretty neat too. Ill have to redo it and post it up.
The orig was shot at f11 1/640 sec ISO 200 was an overcast morning.

I was about to save up a wierd mixed up sky ver played in PS but its in some wierd loop and I have to head out.

Ill be back

Cheers
Adam

[big pix]

what they all said about over saturation......... but I think they would make great B&Ws

[admajic]

I had a go at doing the B&W. I have never done one before. Let me know how I went. Adam

[macka]

Sorry Adam, but your PP just hasn't worked IMO. Not only are they oversaturated, but also oversharpened. In the second colour image and the B&W you can see halos around the roof of the house. Your previous posts suggest you can do better.