Morning, Darren! I've tweaked many an aspect ratio crop to satisfy an image compositional problem, but have yet to allow one I considered prohibitively "odd." I would expect that to be a universal truism.
J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Addy" <[email protected]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 5:26:50 AM Subject: Re: PESO: Cracks in the Firmament Thanks to all who looked and commented! Jack, I'm afraid that it would be an odd aspect ratio crop, but I will give it a look. Thanks for the suggestion. Toine, not IN the car, no. I realized we had storms in the "neighborhood" late and was trying like the dickens to get to them before dark. It didn't help that I just had to stop a couple of times to take landscape/skyscape images in the fading light of sunset. I was on the last leg to reach the storms - a gravel road that stretched 25 miles between the highway and the town of Stockville, Nebraska when I saw on radar that the storm I had been targeting was falling apart. There was another more dominant storm behind it, but it was farther away and it would be well after dark before I could approach it. When I saw the golden wheat field and windmill I put on the brakes. The storm in the distance was putting on quite a light show and I thought I might get something interesting. I pulled the car as far off the road as I could, but left it running with headlights on and emergency flashers going while I went just a bit further down the road and set up on the opposite side. The road can be seen in the lower right, but some of the light on the ditch weeds is also from my car's headlights. The "finger lightning" is far more impressive than what you see in the cropped square photo. I wanted to eliminate (as much as possible) the blown-out area of the intense lightning. I'll see if I can share the full crop later today. On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Toine <[email protected]> wrote: > Great capture and photo! Shot from inside a car? > > On 12 July 2015 at 23:33, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> An rural Nebraska image from Friday evening, after sundown. That is a >> partially harvested wheat field on the left. Scene is illuminated only >> by lightning and car headlights. >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/19635325442/ >> >> Taken with the Pentax K-3 and my trusty Sigma EX 10-20mm f4-5.6 DG. >> Comments and criticism welcome, in equal measure. >> >> -- >> Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
