Post your Cloudscape Photos

hark · Mar 28, 2022

The National Weather Service sent out an emergency alert regarding a snow squall this afternoon. I used Joel Grimes' editing technique where a duplicate layer is added in Photoshop then in Camera RAW the duplicate layer is converted to black and white. While in Camera RAW, I lowered the saturation of the blues and purples by just -4 each then took it back to Photoshop where I changed the blend mode to Soft Light. What that does is to produce an incredible amount of contrast. I lowered the B&W layer's opacity somewhat (to control the amount of contrast) to come up with this. In the past, I posted a link on this forum to Joel's editing technique showing his process.

Marilynne · Mar 28, 2022

hark said:
The National Weather Service sent out an emergency alert regarding a snow squall this afternoon. I used Joel Grimes' editing technique where a duplicate layer is added in Photoshop then in Camera RAW the duplicate layer is converted to black and white. While in Camera RAW, I lowered the saturation of the blues and purples by just -4 each then took it back to Photoshop where I changed the blend mode to Soft Light. What that does is to produce an incredible amount of contrast. I lowered the B&W layer's opacity somewhat (to control the amount of contrast) to come up with this. In the past, I posted a link on this forum to Joel's editing technique showing his process.

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So, how much snow did you get?

hark · Mar 28, 2022

Marilynne said:
So, how much snow did you get?

Just a few flurries which are still intermittent. The squall must have stayed over in New Jersey.

With the wind, it is REALLY cold. And since I didn't wear any gloves, I kept putting my hands in my pockets! Some plants already started to bloom so I don't know how this will affect those blossoms.

hark · Mar 29, 2022

hark said:
The National Weather Service sent out an emergency alert regarding a snow squall this afternoon. I used Joel Grimes' editing technique where a duplicate layer is added in Photoshop then in Camera RAW the duplicate layer is converted to black and white. While in Camera RAW, I lowered the saturation of the blues and purples by just -4 each then took it back to Photoshop where I changed the blend mode to Soft Light. What that does is to produce an incredible amount of contrast. I lowered the B&W layer's opacity somewhat (to control the amount of contrast) to come up with this. In the past, I posted a link on this forum to Joel's editing technique showing his process.

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The first one I posted was from my iPhone. The problem is I wasn't able to completely correct the distortion to the buildings. So here is my RAW edit from my D750. I was able to pull a little more detail from some areas of the clouds, too.