Storm cloud re-edited

[Lost]

I was never happy with the one posted before so I started again from scratch.

Long time since I have spent so much time on one photo

LR/CS4/Efex CP2-define-silver pros. Lots of dodge+burn

Would appreciate some honest CC on this one----too much not enough (???)....


1402-244-P2-2 by Ian Browne, on Flickr

[seaslug]

Quite like what you've done with it. First glance looks as if there is a bit of a tilt to it all but that may be an illusion set up by the angle of the black immediate foreground. Maybe a little less of that dark area would be less of a distraction.

The clouds are very impressive and make a great subject and the tree is positioned just right with respect to the cloud. Flipped either way horizontally still looks ok.

Nice job!

[Sully]

Prefer the other version .... for me the eye goes to the tree and stops and then slowly wanders across the rest of the photo to ..... nowhere ... but I like the contrast

[Lost]

^^^ ^^


1402-244-P2-2 by Ian Browne, on Flickr

[Phoenix]

My thoughts and impressions.
I really like the sense of scale you often bring to your images Ian. This one does not disappoint in that regard, almost reminds my of the finger from the Eagle Nebulae. (Hope I remembered that right)
I think there is about one/half of a degree of slope in the horizon.

The contrast is huge for the foreground, which I quite like as it has all those interesting textural lines.
The detail in the clouds seems to have been a little soft but when I look into it, it appears as though its a wave about to consume that tree...an intense story telling cloud image indeed.
The Vignette is a little too strong for my tastes, but I can appeciate how it frames this image.