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Clouds: shapes and sizes

22 October 2004, 11:17 pm

I’ve never been happy with the quality of the clouds that I’ve photographed in the past. I took the opportunity of storm clouds over town at lunchtime (and one cloud shot this evening) to practice. Most shots were under-exposed 1 to 2 stops to prevent the bright white parts of the clouds from burning out the cloud detail.

An audioBlog accompanies these photographs [3.4 Mbytes, 8 min 14 sec duration]. The audio commentary is also distributed as a podcast. You need to subscribe to my RSS2 feed towards the bottom of the right hand column on this page and you need to use aggregator software capable of utilising this. A storm front approaches the town. Dark and ominous … … yet white and fluffy. The cloud’s underbelly hints of rain… … yet remains bright and light above. This scene was taken in the fading natural light, and lit by sodium light. The storm has passed. [1/4 sec, F4.5, ISO 1600]

