Clouds in Black & White

Forget Google. Just get out there, take an image and then experiment with filters in PL.

Take a look at a colour wheel and you will see which colours darken their opposites.

Mammatus Clouds in the last week over Bochum

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A view of the River Aln from Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, North East England:

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Autumn storm here in SW France.

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Scaaary! Would that be Carcassonne? I still have one of the “cinq fils” to check off my bucket list.

Its a bit north of there, see here → https://www.chateaudemauvezin.fr

Going through my photos I found this one, 2009 Oslo.

George

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The gates of the underworld will open soon

Trieste (Italy)

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Alghero, just after sunset, 2010.


Yet another try with Silver Efex. To be honest, I’m not satisfied with this one, since there’s some imbalance or the topic is “shaky”. You may cut the image from below, to get the angler in the bottom left edge corner, or cut it more just above him. You loose the sea texture and the “cloud chimney” effect is lost, but the rest is more balanced. Also sometimes it looks too artificial to me (on Mondays at least). Note that I’m new to SEP and still “BW illiterate”. I couldn’t get anything “better” with FP alone, but I’ve used fine-contrast for this one. The attached SEP version is almost what I had in mind, but still far away. Sadly, Nik7 does not save automatically your edits, so they are gone…

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Reverse vignetting works well on the clouds to “isolate” them, but the view leaves your image.

I might leave out the bottom part, which is a standalone picture and then the angler leads into …

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In Silver Efex (shown here in Nik 7) you can save your edits (i.e. the parameters) as presets (with / without local adjustments).
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to retrieve / reuse it next time on your new image.


( click the ‘list’ to export / import )

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Hi folks. I just stumbled across an image from the end of 2017…

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Looks like infrared.

George

Not quite. just a strong red filter on Fuji Acros film

Also red :grinning:
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George

Hope you didn’t have to fly into that cloud.

The cloud factory

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The dynamics of light are really strong, with sunset probably coming soon. No wonder of @George’s guess of infrared processing – it probably looks unnatural for anyone living further north :wink:
EDIT: Actually such views do happen in the north, but they are read differently.

Ah, just noticed it, is the moon really necessary there? :wink:

I had something similar but more dramatic and later in the evening, which I made black and red. Unfortunately the picture was lost with my disk, just before making a backup…