Waiting for a lift

[HIMUPNORTH]

As reported on one of my previous threads I broke down whilst flying my paramotor on Friday night. It is my own fault, I loosened a central bolt whilst on holiday and did not have any loctite with me when I re-assembled.

The vibration must have worked it loose and when I blipped the throttle over the potato field (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1359/1163325178_78fb3e142a_o.jpg) away it went. Landing was straightforward as I never land under power anyway and there was loads of space along the verges of the field.

Whilst waiting for my wife to come and collect me (thanks dear!) I was sitting under an improving sky. This is one of the shots I took whilst waiting.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1221/1168082526_2f41e39169_o.jpg

[antihero]

great looking sky! hope you don't mind me asking, but have you used a filter, if so, what kind?

[RickMezza]

I like the idea, but its a bit too contrasty for me, ie the clouds are a little too dark:shrug: and you've lost the detail in the trees in the background.
Rich :)

[Marianne]

nice moody shot....glad you made it back safely and even if you don't need your nuts tightened to land I really wish you would...I don't like the sound of your nuts loosening and falling off with the vibration....too scary! :naughty:

[HIMUPNORTH]

antihero - No filters used.

Rick - thats how I wanted it. Not all detail must be there for the viewer to see a picture. matter of taste I know but i am going to disagree with you seen that you knew that they were trees ;).

Marianne - My nuts are safe thanks but a bolt was loose :lol:

Thanks all for commenting. :thumbs:

[AdWright]

Nice punchy colours and impressive sky - hard to believe it was done without a polariser. I'd be tempted to nudge the exposure up by 1/3 stop

[Messiah Khan]

antihero - No filters used.

Rick - thats how I wanted it. Not all detail must be there for the viewer to see a picture. matter of taste I know but i am going to disagree with you seen that you knew that they were trees ;).

Marianne - My nuts are safe thanks but a bolt was loose :lol:

Thanks all for commenting. :thumbs:

You ever find the propeller?

[nigelcampbell]

I think that's great - nice light.

Looks like a pretty wide lens - what did you shoot it with?

(totally agree about not needing to see all the detail - and glad to see I'm not the only photographer who doesn't rely on filters to get a good sky)

[Mohain]

Perhaps a tad contrasty but I like it :)

[HIMUPNORTH]

Nice punchy colours and impressive sky - hard to believe it was done without a polariser. I'd be tempted to nudge the exposure up by 1/3 stop
Thanks Adam. I have managed to resist ;)


Looks like a pretty wide lens - what did you shoot it with?

(totally agree about not needing to see all the detail - and glad to see I'm not the only photographer who doesn't rely on filters to get a good sky)
Shot at 28mm on my trusty 28-70mm f2.8L. This 1ds is great with very strong blues. Hardly used it on the tripod yet but looking forward to some 30sec plus exposures when I get the chance. :thumbs:


Perhaps a tad contrasty but I like it :)
Perhaps, but so do I ;).

Thanks for the feedback guys and positive remarks. Interesting to see the views on a picture which has a generally higher contrast / darker areas than is normally considered "correct".

I have been watching a friend develop his style and he has has gone way off the scale with use of high contrast (LDR? whatever I should call it! :shrug:) but is now producing some unique images which are earning him recognition.
Good to search the boundaries I think.

[dazzajl]

I like it too. Good to see as I was rambling on the subject of dark parts in an image being nothng to fear and adding lots to a scene in another thread just the other day. :)

[Hacker]

I really like this but I'm a fan of contrasty images and this ticks all the boxes for me. :clap: