North Country Pinks

[DavidWright2010]

The original version of this image (actually a pano) sat on my hard drive for 10 years or so. The problem was, by the time the clouds had achieved this color, the light was off the foreground. I tried brightening it up, but it very quickly started looking fake.

So it sat.

Recently I got to thinking - I knew I had taken images in the hour preceding this final set - maybe I could do something with them. What I soon (re)discovered was that the images with light on the grass, and mostly white clouds, were all taken from a slightly different position. Ten years ago I wasn't skillful enough to blend them. But now I was able to twist, stretch, and bend the earlier foreground, and lay it over the dull grass.

This is the result

David
(after looking at the preview I had to adjust the saturation. Don't know why; I'm using sRGB...)

 

[AlanLichty]

Great archive find - the colors and lighting are superb. Neat clouds too. Glad you dug this one up.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

A very nice result - the clouds are just fantastic.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great work consider images like this for the salvage Saturday post

 

[DavidWright2010]

Great work consider images like this for the salvage Saturday post

What's that?

 

[BlackRockArt]

The original version of this image (actually a pano) sat on my hard drive for 10 years or so. The problem was, by the time the clouds had achieved this color, the light was off the foreground. I tried brightening it up, but it very quickly started looking fake.

So it sat.

Recently I got to thinking - I knew I had taken images in the hour preceding this final set - maybe I could do something with them. What I soon (re)discovered was that the images with light on the grass, and mostly white clouds, were all taken from a slightly different position. Ten years ago I wasn't skillful enough to blend them. But now I was able to twist, stretch, and bend the earlier foreground, and lay it over the dull grass.

This is the result

View attachment 58651


David
(after looking at the preview I had to adjust the saturation. Don't know why; I'm using sRGB...)

David, what a gorgeous shot, I love the high altitude lenticular clouds.

Also my belated welcome to Focal World.

Oliver

 

[DavidWright2010]

David, what a gorgeous shot, I love the high altitude lenticular clouds.

Also my belated welcome to Focal World.

Oliver

Thanks.
That type of cloud is very rare here (no peaks higher than about 3000 ft.)

David

 

[Ben Egbert]

What's that?

Salvage Saturday is a weekly (Saturday) community post where people find and reprocess older images. I will start todays in a few minutes

 

[JimFox]

Hey David,

What a great job! It's great when our skills and tools finally catch up to our vision.

This looks totally natural, so the work put it in to match up the 2 slightly different perspectives was worth it I think!

 

[Peter Michal]

The original version of this image (actually a pano) sat on my hard drive for 10 years or so. The problem was, by the time the clouds had achieved this color, the light was off the foreground. I tried brightening it up, but it very quickly started looking fake.

So it sat.

Recently I got to thinking - I knew I had taken images in the hour preceding this final set - maybe I could do something with them. What I soon (re)discovered was that the images with light on the grass, and mostly white clouds, were all taken from a slightly different position. Ten years ago I wasn't skillful enough to blend them. But now I was able to twist, stretch, and bend the earlier foreground, and lay it over the dull grass.

This is the result

View attachment 58651


David
(after looking at the preview I had to adjust the saturation. Don't know why; I'm using sRGB...)

Very nice result, David. And the sky is fantastic!