RE SMOKY

Rahul from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

You are inspiring me to take my camera and start shooting clouds hehehe... Too bad its all cloudy and raining here. Love this skyline series from you. Will make real cool backgrounds if we are play with pics in PS. ;-)

11 Apr 2007 7:29am

Rahul from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Btw, should i address you as Chris, or you prefer "My dear Monkey" :-) Did i get the Chris part right ?

11 Apr 2007 7:42am

Myst from Bologna, Italy

Great shot! Beautiful sky and hues!

11 Apr 2007 8:16am

ajoeh from Mataram, Indonesia

Nice color, rather grainy and it will be better to take it little bit lower to capture a little part of the land below, just to add the composition nicely.

11 Apr 2007 8:27am

Sujit from Hyderabad, India

Superb colours you've got here. The cloud formations were better in the previous post. But then, they will come back again :)

11 Apr 2007 8:39am

Anne from White Rock, Canada

Lovely clouds and color. Rather like we have had here - blue overhead, and cloudy near the horizon. I wouldn't worry about grain with 200 ISO. Not unless you are going to enlarge it to a 28 x 40 print. I don't know how long most of the folks have been using 35 mm SLR's - but there was a time or two before I got digital that I had to push process 100 ISO film because I got caught in bad weather without faster film, and then process and submit it for printing. The push processing of film can effectively change the ISO to 200 or 400 etc., which was really the only option. I have photos on my walls with no apparent grain visible printed from 200 film and 200 ISO digital. The main trick is in the post processing - if you have photoshop save it as an sRGB color profile (72 dpi) for the web, and regular Adobe RGB for printing at a resolution of 300 dpi preferably as a .tif document.(Don't print from 72 dpi). Don't forget that a JPEG deteriorates in quality little by little every time it is re-saved. There is the option in the file menu to "Save for Web" which will automatically adjust the resolution etc. It's prints we have to be really careful about ISO and resolution - what we see on the web is only a darned slide picture anyway - lit up from the back.
They are lovely clouds anyway - I would like to see a bit of the land below too - it doesn't matter if they are darker because of the time of day - will add a great silhouette effect against that beautiful blue! ;-)

11 Apr 2007 9:07am

Rui Borges from Sintra, Portugal

Looks like you got the same weather than here... ;-)

11 Apr 2007 9:14am

Bronnie from Christchurch, New Zealand

Aren't sky and cloud shots amazing! Such variety. Anne's comments are really helpful for me too - perhaps we should get her to do a tutorial?!!

11 Apr 2007 9:38am

Titto from India

Thanks man for the comments.I have 2 photoblogs actually.One in aminus and other one in blospot.I am maintaining in blogspot coz i can put some html codes and snippets there.The comments area is right under the pic right ??
Any way thanks for pointing out the difficulty.Yeah it's little difficult...

11 Apr 2007 9:52am

Titto from India

I liked the different shades in the clouds...

11 Apr 2007 9:53am

objectif-P from Belgium

quand les nuages font décoller les rêves..c'est beau

11 Apr 2007 10:28am

Behrooz from Tehran, Iran

Nice shot Christa!
I liked Anne's comment very much. When shooting skies, an F number of 5.6 would be enough, and even if not, you can have a far slower shutter speed in this shot so that you can have more lights to deal and you choose a smaller ISO rating to avoid any possible grain.

11 Apr 2007 11:02am

Jerry from Tampa, United States

Lovely sky AM! I think the image is fine as is!

11 Apr 2007 11:29am

Jen from Jessup, United States

I love it! More Sky!! : )
I think Anne should have a tutorial site!

11 Apr 2007 1:16pm

alla from Toronto, Canada

MORE SKY? Interesting cloud formation.

11 Apr 2007 1:25pm

Laurie from New Jersey, United States

Did you have a circular polarizer attached to the lens? If not I think you should try it. It makes a world of difference in skies.

I would like to see some more of the landscape in this one. If you want to add more detail to the landscape, use a grad ND filter and a longer exposure. That way you won't blow out the sky yet you will retain more details in the darker areas in the landscape. I always use a tripod whenever possible.

At 200 ISO you shouldn't have a big noise issue. Even at 400 ISO there should be little noise. I shoot regularly at 1600 and even 3200 and as long as conditions are good enough, I get very little noise, and when I do get noise, Imagenomic's Noiseware Pro is a fantastic Noise Reduction Program that I use to deal with it. It's not terribly expensive, is easy to use and does a fantastic job.

I sometimes even apply Noiseware Pro to portraits when there is no noise because when I use the right settings it sharpens the eyes nicely and makes the skin tones and textures lovely with very little effort. I discovered that totally by accident.

I shoot RAW with the white balance set to auto. It works very well in most situations and it makes corrections much easier later on.

11 Apr 2007 1:30pm

Nick Passantino from Bronx, United States

I would say that you should either get some more land in the bottom of the photo or take it out completely.. but i like what youve done with the last two photos.. Interesting to compare the two

11 Apr 2007 2:56pm

amy from Rocky Mountain House, Canada

More Sky!! Love your comments .. some great advice..

And I like your sky! The clouds are great.. but I do think I'd like to see a bit more horizon.

11 Apr 2007 5:45pm

Sylvia from Milano, Italy

Lovely shot and an amazing amount of information here--- wonderfully informative, thanks everyone.

11 Apr 2007 6:40pm

Stunner from Kingston, Jamaica

Neat shot and a nice capture of the sky, but it would be neater to me if i saw some more of the mountains.

12 Apr 2007 3:34am