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Postby ozimax on Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:03 pm

I love storm season. I love living in Coffs Harbour. The storms and cloud formations are always enjoyable, and this one taken about an hour ago was no exception.

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Postby Yi-P on Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:21 pm

Thats a major storm out there!! :shock:
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Postby Slider on Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:29 pm

Wow, that is awesome. Well caught :D
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Postby ozimax on Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:29 pm

Actually YiP it had just passed by, but it sure was spectacular.
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Postby ozimax on Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:31 pm

Thanks Mark, the light out there was unbelievable, it would have been just as good for portraits, makes me think I wish I had a Hasselblad or large format camera or similar.
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Postby Killakoala on Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:33 pm

Wow, there is some serious anger in those clouds. It looks like a scene from a sci-fi movie.

BUT, it could do with a bit more contrast to bring out the light and the dark of the clouds a bit more. :twisted:
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Postby ozimax on Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:37 pm

Steve, I did adjust levels in PS, but wasn't sure how much adjustment or how "angry" I was to make the clouds.
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Postby jethro on Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:06 pm

Max,
Serious Cell developing there. Great shot, exposure comp etc, Keep looking this is the storm season!

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Postby Stargazer on Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:08 pm

Some nice mammatus structure there in that cell. Nice shot. :up:
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Postby JordanP on Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:22 am

Nice capture Oz! There is some outstanding light in that capture, I think a little more PP could make it pop a bit more.

I caught a little lightning last night and I'm looking forward to things ramping up in the next couple of months.
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Postby ozimax on Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:31 am

Thanks Craig, I had another look at the storm photo you submitted a few weeks ago, an absolute cracker. We had a great storm last night, I have so many photos I don't know where to start processing!!

The photo from last night was only the low res jpeg attached to the RAW, I'm trying to get my mac PS raw plugin to work, when I do I will open the photo in raw and have a play around it.

Not much in the way of surf shots at the moment down the coast, too windy and too wet!

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Postby MHD on Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:35 am

Indeed! Nice shot...

We dont do weather in canberra...
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Postby ozimax on Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:42 am

MHD wrote:Indeed! Nice shot...

We dont do weather in canberra...


:lol:

Except for temperatures below freezing and above 40 C!
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Postby Mr Darcy on Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:46 am

Hey I distinctly remember some weather a couple of weeks ago.
Wasn't there a sailing boat left in a tree?

But in general I must agree. I go home to BM to experience weather.
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Postby ozimax on Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:54 am

Mr Darcy wrote:I go home to BM to experience weather.


BM :?:
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Postby Mr Darcy on Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:08 am

:oops: Sorry.
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Postby ozimax on Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:12 am

No worries Darc, I should have known, I was born at Springwood. To be precise, Nepean District hospital, but my parents lived at Springwood at the time, so I guess that makes me a mountaineer.... :D
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Postby stormygirl on Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:14 pm

Well done Ozimax! Gotta love the Mammatus.....just stunning! It's been a slow start to the storm season, but things are gradually picking up. I'm heading up to Darwin at the end of the week, followed by SE QLD/NE NSW for 2 weeks storm chasing! I'm hoping to capture some great lightning images and some spectacular cloud structure with the beauty of the Aussie landscape below!

Always be on the lookout for decaying storms over the water at sunset...the results can be mind blowing!
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Postby ozimax on Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:25 pm

stormygirl wrote:It's been a slow start to the storm season,


Here at Coffs we've had several storms so far this year, I think being right at the intersection of mountains and ocean makes for some interesting weather events. Hope you have some great fun chasing the storms. Cheers.
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Postby PiroStitch on Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:37 pm

Saw some huge storm cloud build up on Sunday in Melbourne but nothing eventuated here...well down South and SE suburbs anyway.
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Postby stormygirl on Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:10 pm

PiroStitch wrote:Saw some huge storm cloud build up on Sunday in Melbourne but nothing eventuated here...well down South and SE suburbs anyway.


Sorry to stray off topic Ozimax.....Wayne, I ended up driving to Doncaster Shoppingtown and sat in my car in the carpark with a spectacular view of the storms with lightning flashing overhead and to the east! Fantastic, but pouring rain so I couldn't take pics. Back home, there wasn't even enough rain to wet the ground properly..... :roll:
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Postby Oscar on Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:50 pm

Hey we all get weather - it's just a matter of taking the shots and that is a nice capture of the tail of a storm.
Well done Max. Cheers, Mick :) :) :)
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Postby mic on Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:42 pm

Great shot Max.

I like it even better when converted to B&W and light levels dropped a bit.

Brings out the clouds even more.

Thats me anyway.

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