Storm pictures

[wfooshee]

In the spirit of John's sharing of mattb's panoramic photo on the FB page, here are a couple of pics I took this evening.

Typical of this time of year, moist air comes in from the Gulf and allo the water falls out of the sky as soon as it gets over land. big clouds, heavy rain over very small areas. When they say, "Scattered showers, some locally heavy," this is what they mean. Note the clear blue sky visible higher up!


This was the view when I turned 180 degrees, cloud forming as it gets over the warmer land. I'm less than half a mile from the Gulf where I'm standing.


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EDIT: Wow! Picasaweb took this picture and threw up on it! This is NOTHING like the image I uploaded to Picasaweb! Let me attach the file from my PC and see what happens:



Yeah, Google made some decisions that weren't mine in that image, didn't they? The second one is the same file I uploaded to them!
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Feel free to post your own storm pics. I looked for a thread of such but didn't find one. Maybe this can be an ongoing project.

[armando_m]

rain at Puerto Vallarta Mexico

[armando_m]

and that big white cloud became and awful storm when driving back to the hotel on twisty , two lane road at night

[wfooshee]

and that big white cloud became and awful storm when driving back to the hotel on twisty , two lane road at night

You should try it on a motorcycle!!! (OK, not a twisty road here, but still.... )

[mattb]

Hey, nice storms! I love storm photos.
Crazy what happened to that photo on Picasaweb! It almost doesn't look like the same shot.

Here's another of mine from the day before I took the panoramic John shared.
I processed it with Nik Silver Efx Pro which really brings out some nice sky detail.

IMGP8749-Edit by MattB.net, on Flickr

[Michaelcostagan]

Very clear and nicely clicked pics indeed.

[Michaelcostagan]

Wow great pics indeed presenting everything very clear.

[wfooshee]

How about one from the inside looking out? Headed home in pouring rain, but the western sky was clear! Cell pic, a little too much dynamic range for the phone, but....

[Luke Skywalker]

Nature creates unique weather. Great pictures.

[mattb]

Driving home from Grandma's house yesterday

IMGP1235 by MattB.net, on Flickr


IMGP1238-Edit by MattB.net, on Flickr


IMGP1246-Edit by MattB.net, on Flickr

[wfooshee]

Florida: I you don't like the weather, give it 10 and check again.

[coolhand5599]

WOW, great pics

[Photo-John]

Thanks for starting this thread, wfooshee. It looks like it's taken on a life of its own. I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to add a couple of my own storm photos now





These are before an after photos of a storm approaching Antelope Island, over the Great Salt Lake. I thought I was going to get seriously pummeled when I saw this headed my direction but it passed mostly to the south and the only effects were a lot of wind and a little bit of spitting rain on my windshield. The photos were taken with my Canon T4i / 650D and the new Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 I just reviewed. It's a hell of a lens. Here's the lens review for anyone who's interested:

Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 Zoom Lens Review >>

I hope this thread keeps going with lots more storm photos. It's a great subject!

[Don Schaeffer]

Neat shots in here.

[wfooshee]

One of those tiny cells rolling in from the Gulf:

Camp Helen State Park, Florida
D7000, Rokinon 8mm fisheye, 1/500 @ f:7.1, ISO 100

Same day, another cell a few miles west:

Hwy 331 at Choctawhatchee Bay
D7000, Rokinon 8mm fisheye, 1/500 @ f:6.3, ISO 100

I like this one better of the cloud, but I don't like the highway and traffic in the shot....

Same location and camera info as previous


If I may be permitted a small indulgence, I've been playing with B&W conversion of a lot of my shots lately. (Another forum I'm on had a pretend-you're-Ansel-Adams project and now I can't stop trying.) So I repeat the last two images here, first with a simple saturation to zero, then with a more complex conversion with reduced blue and cyan for sky darkening, plus increased yellow and green for foliage enhancement. Unfortunately, with Photoshop's B&W conversion, carrying those sliders too far gets some pixelizing....

[jallyjames]

Really all nice picture,,,thanks for sharing with us...

[Coolhandchuck]

A great picture in color, but even better in black and white.

[Gavin1874]

I prefer the colorful photos to the black and white ones.

[mattb]

From a fun long bike ride yesterday.
Storm approaching:
Pentax K-5 & DA 40mm f/2.8 Ltd.

IMGP4963-Edit by MattB.net, on Flickr

Storm arrived!
Pentax K-5 & DA 40mm f/2.8 Ltd.

IMGP4968-Edit by MattB.net, on Flickr

[mattb]

Here's a panorama from the same outing.
I liked how it was stormy on one side and sunny on the other!

IMGP4969-Edit by MattB.net, on Flickr

[Barbiej64]

Very Nice Pictures.