By the way, thanks to the latest who commented on my Custer County Supercell image (and all who looked). I hurridly threw that up on the same night as it was taken and it is simply a JPEG with only minor corrections (correcting levels and a +6 on saturation, if memory serves). I'm sure I could bring out some more detail in the striations of the cloud with some work on the RAW file. My 74 year-old mother wants a print for her wall (the ultimate compliment, eh?)
Regarding the light in the trees and over the barn, there is no post-processing done to bring that out. This is what you get when the sun is just ready to set. It pops down below the base of the storm and illuminates everything under it. You get to see the good detail of the underside of the storm (side-lit) and the ground is sunlit like a normal golden hour shot. It was just serendipitous timing that I happened to be in the right position on the storm and pass such a picturesque foreground material when the right light presented itself. (I stomped on the brakes and backed up when I saw that barn). The shot is looking straight north, as the sun sets in the west. I was down in the ditch weeds to get my shots and when I got home I found I had picked up a wood tick that *just* digging in, attempting to feast on my receding hairline. (Too much information?) - One of the environmental hazards of the of the nature photographer, in these parts. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, today was a disappointment photographically speaking. Instead of > the predicted "isolated" supercells we got a huge convective mess that > was basically a moving hurricane of high precipitation monsters all > melding into one. The only people who saw tornadoes today were those > with armored vehicles and silly enough to put them in their path. > That's why they are the stormchasing "stars". Example: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LobCDYO78Us (you have to endure a > YouTube commercial to view it). Here is a still of a wedge for > comparison: http://t.co/hdWk6VisKd > > This is only visible from inside what is called the bear cage, a place > that it is foolhardy to go in an HP supercell, particularly if you > have a family that depends upon your income. That being said, it was > good exercise from a chasing perspective. I made a number of "right > calls" and was in Lebanon, KS as the tornado sirens went off. Sadly, I > (along with a myriad other chasers) was apparently 4 miles *south* of > a pair of *twin* tornadoes that was caught by (respected researcher) > Tim Samaras. I'm assuming he had data available from something other > than the cellular network that I was relying on, which was HORRIBLE in > Lebanon. He described his encounter as "close" but I have yet to say > any imagery from his encounter. I'm guessing that one of those > tornadoes was spinning clockwise and the other the usual > counter-clockwise, but I will have to ask him about that. > > I did get a few interesting images from the trip, but only a few were > truly due to the weather. More to come... > > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> That's a hell of a shot, Darren. I just love it. >> >> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Had a fun little "backyard" chase in Custer County (the county north >>> and west of my home county of Buffalo). I walked out of a hardware >>> store and saw what appeared to be an atom bomb that had gone off to my >>> northwest. I checked radar on my iPad to see how far away it was >>> (distances can be deceiving out here on the plains). To my surprise it >>> wasn't even showing (yet) on radar. As luck would have it it was >>> exactly midway between two radar stations and so (due to the curvature >>> of the earth) had to get very tall before it was seen by either one). >>> As luck would have it, it was only about an hour's drive. When I >>> caught up to it, I found a very pretty little low precipitation (LP) >>> supercell. It was a slow mover and this is what it looked like a >>> couple of hours later, just east of the hamlet of Westerville, >>> Nebraska. >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ >>> >>> Hope you enjoy it. >>> >>> -- >>> "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - >>> Peter Galassi >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - > Peter Galassi -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
