Beautiful Clouds Over Arizona

[zkogut]

Hi Everybody,

I took some pretty cool photos last night of some storm clouds blowing in over the Superstition Mountains here in Gilbert, AZ. Figured I'd share them with you. What do you think?

-Zak

[mknittle]

Yes they are. I have problems with clouds. It seems they aren't often in the best posision for a shot thet doesn't have a "snap shot" feel to it.

cheers Mark

[wrench]

Nice pics!

[bnnrcn]

Hi Zak If you have a wide angle lens, it might be a good idea to use it next time to photograph these lovely clouds because you can shoot wider scenes with some subjects in the foreground and your compositions might be better. I prefer #1 because I find the roof on the right side in #2 a bit distracting.

[zkogut]

Hi Zak If you have a wide angle lens, it might be a good idea to use it next time to photograph these lovely clouds because you can shoot wider scenes with some subjects in the foreground and your compositions might be better. I prefer #1 because I find the roof on the right side in #2 a bit distracting.

Hi Binnur,
Yes, I agree. I'm saving up for a Rokinon 14mm for my camera. Hopefully I can get it soon because I'm sick of stitching pictures together to make that foreground larger. Here's a galaxy photo I took that was actually 10 photos that I had to stitch together to make with my 35mm.

[mknittle]

Now that's a nice one!

[FrankMi]

Hi Binnur,
Yes, I agree. I'm saving up for a Rokinon 14mm for my camera. Hopefully I can get it soon because I'm sick of stitching pictures together to make that foreground larger. Here's a galaxy photo I took that was actually 10 photos that I had to stitch together to make with my 35mm.

That's a fantastic image Zak! I can do panos but I'd love the hear how you went about capturing that set of images!

[zkogut]

That's a fantastic image Zak! I can do panos but I'd love the hear how you went about capturing that set of images!

No problem, Frank. I took 9 photographs of the same exact spot with the same exact settings. I did this 2 times and filled the camera frame with 90% of a new image the second time...only leaving a small piece of the house to the left in the frame so I knew where to stitch it. I then took the RAW files and only adjusted the WB and made the stars pop a bunch and completely ignored how bad the foreground and everything was looking. As I'm writing this I've just remembered there is a video someone made that explains EXACTLY how to do what I did. It's a great technique and I've attached the video below. Just remember you can do this with a few photos and then stitch the end results together as I did. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rydg..._8Lt0PWYngKYVg

[bnnrcn]

This is a great photo Zak. Just great!

[FrankMi]

Thank you Zak! If I can get to a location where I can do this I'll certainly give it a try!

EDIT: I just watched the video and now realize that this is not a panorama image stitching but rather a Focus Stacking type of stitching used to reduce noise.

That is a very interesting technique that could be used to reduce noise anytime that the image is static and high ISO is involved such as in night photography. Thank you so much for the link Zak!

[zkogut]

Thank you Zak! If I can get to a location where I can do this I'll certainly give it a try!

EDIT: I just watched the video and now realize that this is not a panorama image stitching but rather a Focus Stacking type of stitching used to reduce noise.

That is a very interesting technique that could be used to reduce noise anytime that the image is static and high ISO is involved such as in night photography. Thank you so much for the link Zak!

No problem, Frank. Glad you found it helpful!