Raining Color

Gallery: LandscapePosted July 24, 2014232 views8 comments

After an amazing light and color show in the Lamar Valley a couple weeks ago, I was relaxing in the sage and thinking about all the images i'd gotten, when I looked to the north and saw that the sun had found another small gap in the clouds near the horizon and lit up the sky and sheets of rain. I wanted to shoot the scene badly, but there was nothing in the foreground to compliment the sky until three buffalo walked slowly into the scene. I'm attaching one of the raw files to help with C&C of the processing.

Canon 5d Mark iii, 70-200mm f/4 lens, 1/60 sec at f/11, ISO 250, 2 images stitched with PTGui

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Comment posted by Thomas Haney on July 24, 2014 at 10:04 AM

Here's one of the raw files.

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on July 24, 2014 at 6:49 PM

A nice pastoral Thomas. I like the mood of it very much. I think an alternative would have been to leave the sky intact and crop up from the bottom to just below the animals. I like it as posted however.

pat

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on July 25, 2014 at 8:04 AM

Gotta love the Lamar Valley. One of my favorite places. This is great from strictly a landscape shot. The bison put it over the top.

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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on July 25, 2014 at 6:58 PM

Very nice, Thomas. The pano treatment works very well. I love the sky, and the virga is sweet. The Bison are an added bonus.

--P

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on July 25, 2014 at 11:08 PM

Awesome clouds. Just feels like the ground should maybe pick up more of this color. It seems to be neutral or even cool by comparison.

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Comment posted by Zack Clothier on July 26, 2014 at 5:07 PM

While the light is really nice this scene would have been lifeless without those Bison, great job incorporating them into the scene for a compelling photograph. How long are you in Yellowstone for?

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Comment posted by Thomas Haney on July 26, 2014 at 8:26 PM

Thanks for the comments. Tony, the foreground has been bothering me and I couldn't quite tell why, but I think you nailed it, the disconnect between sky and foreground color, so I'll work on it. Zach, I'll be at the West Yellowstone jump base through mid-October, but only sporadically as fire season has suddenly come to life. I've been at the Redmond base for the last two weeks but I think we're heading home tomorrow. It would be fun to meet up and go out shooting sometime.

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Comment posted by Zack Clothier on July 28, 2014 at 3:13 AM

Thomas, send me an email when you've got some free time and maybe we can get out and do some shooting in the park this summer

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