Penning Photography Daily

I saw the swiftly moving thunderclouds and had to try.

I changed lenses to my ultra-wide Sigma 10-20mm. Went out to the deck and propped the camera up on top of our grill with a wire grill brush to give the lens a nice tilt. Set the timer and this is the result.

I kept going back and forth between a black & white conversion and this color version. I left it color to give a more ominous sense to the clouds, at least in my perception.

I used the selective enhancement tool in the beta version of Lightroom 2, which went live into full production today. I used the tool to lighten up my face. You can really see the noise in there, but not so much in the other, properly exposed parts of the photo. I’ve learned to expose to the right of the histogram, in order to reduce the apparent effect of sensor noise. Look it up if you’re curious. I know I am, always. =)