Mackerel Sky at Night

[AndyMackie]

This was taken from our balcony in Thailand in the wee hours of Boxing Day and is posted more for interest than anything as it was such a lovely cloud cover racing past the moon for the best part of an hour.

The clouds were moving quite fast so freezing the movement was tricky as I still needed enough light in the shot from the bright moon to expose some detail furthest from it. I still had to boost shadows and drop the blacks in LR4.

Thanks to Ray for telling me the name of this particular type of cloud formation - I'd never heard of it before.
Andy

5D3 with EF24-105 f4L IS, tripod mounted.
35mm @ f4.5, 0.7 secs @ ISO 1600, Manual focus.
Spot metering - I wondered later of evaluative might have been better


BNE_8805.jpg by AndyMackie1, on Flickr

[Stan]

Re: Mackerel Sky at Night

Interesting shot Andy which would probably have done well in my camera club "abstract" theme this week

Stan

[AndyMackie]

Re: Mackerel Sky at Night

Thanks Stan

I've noticed it's a lot darker than the original when coming via Flickr and with dark vignetting which is not in the original either, so here's one with another 1/2 stop exposure and sharpened for screen viewing plus and, and this is a first for me, borders having followed advice from Scuff regarding the plug-in for LR4, mogrify:

http://photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrmogrify2.php

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong in exporting to jpeg with the borders but since adding the plugin, LR4 appears to ignore the 5Mb limitation I required and exported anyway to a 20Mb version.

Personally, I much prefer this version and am now sold on the borders concept, even if it does ignore my export size limitations.
Andy


BNE_8805 by AndyMackie1, on Flickr

[JaKS_Foto]

Re: Mackerel Sky at Night

[tesarver]

Mackerel Sky at Night

Nicely spotted and taken:

Tom

[AndyMackie]

Re: Mackerel Sky at Night

Thanks Tom & JaKS
I like your by-line Jaks and for this shot, taken late at night after one too many and when I should really have been in bed, it couldn't have been more true!
Cheers
Andy