Have seen amazing pics of clouds and I can never seem to get them. How do you "capture a cloud?" This is my attempt from today, the colours were so pretty but they just seem to fall flat?
Hi Sarah, I'm a bit of a cloud stalker! You could try including something in addition to the skyline (i.e. hills, buildings, other silhouettes). Time of day and position of & to the sun important in getting shape v flat looking sky. And depending on which editing software you use try adjusting some of the controls (contrast, blacks, fill, etc) until you get a result that you're pleased with! Pretty colours that you've captured though and a great start! Sometimes soft and delicate is beautiful to!
I find cloud photos irresistable too! Here are a couple of mine -- and like others have said, I tend to play a bit with the contrast, and sometimes give them just a little bit of the "hdr-ish" treatment in Picnic:
In Lightroom 3, I use the graduated filter to decrease the exposure on the clouds and bump up the clarity a few notches. And a curves layer. Always curves.
@musicguy1982 Excellent thank you will try that! @webfoot those black and whites are amazing! Love the other features in there too, the trees and hills @jannaellen Amazing colours and perspective - from a plane??? @wahyusp@zferrie @kjarn gorgeous! Love the collage @chelseap92 that light is beautiful! @ehenry95 Love the spray paint idea! @sdpace thank you for those tips! And that pic with the plane is awesome! @livret WOW! @smevvy Thanks heather - they are beautiful shots @hmgphotos Absolutely and you have captured them beautifully @maceugenio Thank you! Can't wait to try out these ideas and I'm so pleased someone else asked about HDR too - I have no idea what that is! I love the colours you have captured in your pics though! @akemiphotos Thanks and yes I've noticed a number of the pics here have something else in the shot... need to get out of my backyard and find some clouds as I only have a massive concrete fence in the background lol. Love the colours! @tolpol Amazing @eliserose781 so beautiful - makes me think of the Lion King - or somewhere in Africa @chackmann They are beautiful - ahhh you can do HDR in picnic can you??? Must go check that out @egad Lovely - what is a HDR 3 merge? @cdford WOW! they are spectacular @john244 Thanks John. I think I have seen something about curves in photoshop but never really played around with it. Love the perspective in your shot!
Thank you so much to everyone who shared! I am inspired!!! And to anyone I didn't indivdually replay too - thank you so much all these photos are amazing!!!
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I find it helpful to increase contrasts in cloud pictures to make them more dramatic
Here's an A:
Here's a B: (with iphone)
Here's one that is both:
You can see the EXIF on all 3 :)
I have a lot of cloud photos in my project... they make an ever changing subject
yes underexposing the photo and a lil tweak to the contrast,... i dunno how to do HDR..
HOW DID YOU DO THOSE??????? @zferrie @wahyusp any help? :)
Dodge the highlights, burn the shadows or dark parts of the cloud, which bumps up the contrast.
In Lightroom 3, I use the graduated filter to decrease the exposure on the clouds and bump up the clarity a few notches. And a curves layer. Always curves.
@webfoot those black and whites are amazing! Love the other features in there too, the trees and hills
@jannaellen Amazing colours and perspective - from a plane???
@wahyusp @zferrie
@kjarn gorgeous! Love the collage
@chelseap92 that light is beautiful!
@ehenry95 Love the spray paint idea!
@sdpace thank you for those tips! And that pic with the plane is awesome! @livret WOW!
@smevvy Thanks heather - they are beautiful shots
@hmgphotos Absolutely and you have captured them beautifully
@maceugenio Thank you! Can't wait to try out these ideas and I'm so pleased someone else asked about HDR too - I have no idea what that is! I love the colours you have captured in your pics though!
@akemiphotos Thanks and yes I've noticed a number of the pics here have something else in the shot... need to get out of my backyard and find some clouds as I only have a massive concrete fence in the background lol. Love the colours!
@tolpol Amazing
@eliserose781 so beautiful - makes me think of the Lion King - or somewhere in Africa
@chackmann They are beautiful - ahhh you can do HDR in picnic can you??? Must go check that out
@egad Lovely - what is a HDR 3 merge?
@cdford WOW! they are spectacular
@john244 Thanks John. I think I have seen something about curves in photoshop but never really played around with it. Love the perspective in your shot!
Thank you so much to everyone who shared! I am inspired!!! And to anyone I didn't indivdually replay too - thank you so much all these photos are amazing!!!