Weather. August 25, 2012
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: black and white photography, low clouds, skies
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Here’s a black and white photo of some low clouds passing through a couple of days ago:
This scene was interesting to me partly because its “interesting” aspect was so ambiguous. None of the elements were particularly compelling, yet the whole scene worked, and I wasn’t clear on how it worked. It took me a while to conceptualize it as you see it, and in that time the skies changed enough so that I nearly missed the shot.
I gotta learn to think faster.
Another Valley Shot. June 8, 2012
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: clouds, cumulus clouds, Elliot, farm fields, farms, Hadley MA, skies, tilt-shift photography, tobacco
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…of a field in Hadley. The support structure for the tobacco shading is in place, though I’m not sure what’s been planted here.
Still, the skies are dramatic, so I pull over and take this shot:
Thanks to Elliot, with perhaps 1-1/2 degrees of tilt, a hand-held 3-stop reverse ND grad by Singh-Ray, and a foreground boost from Photoshop’s camera raw fill-light function.
A Couple Of Skies. November 15, 2009
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: contrails, skies, sunset
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Because I’ve been swimming upstream for the past month, with diminishing returns for my efforts, and haven’t the emotional energy to actually blog about anything important.
Contrails in the Conway sky:
…and an orange apparition over the high plains of Windsor, MA:
A bit feeble, I know, but it’s what I have tonight.
Peace, Out.
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