Dramatic Sky

[Jaykay]

Bit of a random photo I took, and after editing I quite liked it. Some people like the lampost, some don't. I think it adds an eerie sort of feel to the image.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3033/2391757857_2edd0cf729.jpg

View the picture on Flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/jknott/2391757857/) or DeviantArt (http://blindblindblind.deviantart.com/art/A-dark-wind-blows-82049337).

Thanks for looking :)

[EdinburghGary]

Very strange PP - is this HDR? In the oven, gas mark 20, 3 hours and your good to go!

I quite like it, just very crazy looking :)

[EdinburghGary]

It looks like something catastrophic is happening in the sky, and the world is about to be sucked into the big bright hole.

[Jaykay]

Thanks for the comments. Yes, I ran this through Photomatix (I've only experimented with Photomatix a few times and, up until now, hadn't got any results that looked good or that I liked). I was going for the very OTT processing look, to create a dramatic and eerie scene, almost catastrophic, as you said. I'm glad that you said about how it looks like everything is going to be sucked in. I wanted that dramatic sort of look rather than just a nice sky to look at.

[EdinburghGary]

Thanks for the comments. Yes, I ran this through Photomatix (I've only experimented with Photomatix a few times and, up until now, hadn't got any results that looked good or that I liked). I was going for the very OTT processing look, to create a dramatic and eerie scene, almost catastrophic, as you said. I'm glad that you said about how it looks like everything is going to be sucked in. I wanted that dramatic sort of look rather than just a nice sky to look at.

job well done then :)

[robbiemc]

I think the picture needs the lamp-post to give some sort of 'reality', scale and interest, but the sky is slightly too over-processed for my taste. Saying that, I like the image a lot.

[Jaykay]

Thanks robbiemc :)

[petemc]

For me it feels like an example of processing more than a photo. Take away the processing and its a photo of the sky with a random lamppost. There's no real context, nothing to focus on apart from the lamppost. Is this the worlds most evilest lamppost? Why is the apocalypse happening behind it? It needs more to look at imho.

[yourapocalypse]

I really like it, although Pete's right in saying it's nothing without the processing. Nice to see some hugely overdone HDR working well though. Cite as an example of when HDR is used as a technique used to 'produce', rather than 'save' and image.

[Lurch]

I really like this, i think it would be good as a childrens book cover with a few witches in the sky could be good :)