The Clouds Speak

[JTPhotography]

 

[richardquinn80]

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Nice pic, love it

 

[EmmaBproductions]

Nice! What beach is this? Did you have black and white on when you took the photo, or in editing? Emma

 

[PhillipM]

Kewl image

 

[LaFoto]

They speak of some drama! Nicely captured!

 

[imagesliveon]

Lovely image!!

 

[ceeboy14]

I feel like I am being sucked into the image with a vacuum cleaner only not in a good way. My biggest nitpik other than feeling like I need to cling on to something to avoid being one of Hawking's statistics is the clarity on the tree trunk as it sits in a blurry field of water. It just doesn't feel like it belongs there. If the trunk were attached to a point on shore which would release it from being attached to the water, I would have no issue.

To clarify my vaccum cleaner response, my eye is instantly pulled to the top third center of the frame (the bright spot), but it just stops there. I have no relief at that point. My eye doesn't want to move on to look at the rest of the scene and for me, I have to have a logical way into the frame and several escapes out, all of which immediately lead me back to the bright spot. it's that never-ending circle of eye movement or it just doesn't work for me...and, point to be made, if I have to search for an escape route, I'm already on to the next shot.

Somebody on the other side of the world check and see if this New year is the "Year of the Grinch." Either that, or I am still a bit feverish.

 

[KenC]

Like ceeboy, I'm sort of on the fence about this one. I don't find that I'm stuck in that spot, but rather that I sort of wander around. I think the composition could be improved, possibly by de-centering it. I'm not one to complain about centering on every image that has something in the middle, but here I think that's what makes me uneasy. I'd probably try cropping on the left.

 

[JTPhotography]

Nice! What beach is this? Did you have black and white on when you took the photo, or in editing? Emma

Thanks Emma, this was taken on the Mississippi Coast. I shot it in color and converted to BW, but I knew it was going to be a BW image, so I used a grad ND filter to get a moody, low key feel to the sky.

 

[JTPhotography]

Ceeboy14, that is the exact effect I was going for....depth.

 

[ceeboy14]

I PM'ed you on this.

 

[Mike Lamb]

Sweet.

 

[EmmaBproductions]

Thanks Emma, this was taken on the Mississippi Coast. I shot it in color and converted to BW, but I knew it was going to be a BW image, so I used a grad ND filter to get a moody, low key feel to the sky.

Thanks for the reply. I was wondering if you could help me.
Three days ago i turned on my canon rebel xti dslr camera, and ALL the pictures had gone!
I have tried several sites to get my pictures back, but they all require you pay there are some pretty important photos on there from christmas day, i have only had the camera since christmas day.
I don't know if it is a manufacturing fault, or my CF card, or me
If you could advise me in any way what i could have done/could do. This is my first dslr and as i'm only 14 i don't know fully the ins and outs of dslr's let alone my own!
Could i have deleted them myself? Or is it the camera?
If you could help in any way i would be tremendosly grateful
Thank you, Emma

 

[JTPhotography]

Sorry to hear that happened to you Emma, I don't have any experience with this, probably some others on here could be more helpful. Either your card is bad or you accidentally deleted. Wish I could help.

 

[LaFoto]

Emma, I'd be much happier with your NOT posting your sad deletion story into as many threads as you have meanwhile posted them to, in addition to sending it out in PMs (!), as it begins to feel very "fishy"...