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At my family get-together this past weekend, a thunderstorm was rolling in late in the day. My brother-in-law pointed out the interesting cloud formations going on in the back yard, so I pulled out my camera and snapped some shots. I had to hurry because the storm was coming quickly, and sure enough, I had just gotten back into the house when it started pouring!
I have some thoughts of my own of what I like and don’t like about these photos, but I would be interested to hear other perspectives. 🙂 My sister said she didn’t think I quite captured the feeling that was in the air; it was still somewhat bright outside, but very ominous at the same time.
I did have a slightly difficult time figuring out how to expose so the foreground wouldn’t be too dark; I ended up shooting the pics under-exposed and bringing up the lighting in editing.
Camera: Nikon D3100
1st photo
Focal length: 18mm | ISO: 400 | Aperture: f/4 | Shutterspeed: 1/2502nd & 3rd photos
Focal length: 18mm | ISO: 800 | Aperture: f/4 | Shutterspeed: 1/250Attachments:
Wow! Those are some amazing clouds! My favorite is the middle one, with you being so low to the ground and getting the feeling of the fence in there without it requiring a lot of photo real estate, like the first and last one. Going vertical, though, I think is the answer here, to get more of the ominous cloud feeling. Maybe staying low and having your foreground be the fence or the wagon but still keeping as much of the photo real estate sky as possible. Will hope to pull these up again on the webinar on the 14th! https://www.lenspiration.com/photo-critique-with-lenspiration-aug-14/
Thanks! My biggest challenge was figuring out how to expose for the scene… the foreground was coming out too dark. I also feel like the pictures came out noisy. It seems like when my ISO is 400+, I often don’t like the amount of noise…. is that just me, or do you agree?
Yeah, I don’t like to shoot over 100 or 200 when I’m in the outdoors. In this situation, I probably would have grabbed my tripod (or laid the camera on the grass or on my camera bag).
When it comes to exposure, I will shoot as bright as I possibly can without washing out any of the sky. The foreground will often look very very dark, but it usually brightens ok in post-processing if I’m using ISO 100 (or 50, like my camera lets me).
Here’s the replay link to last nights webinar if it’s of any help. Don’t feel like I said much more than I’ve already said here though: https://mailchi.mp/lenspiration/in-case-you-missed-the-live-photo-critique-webinar-1431237
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