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RE: Longexposure Photography - Summer Storm
Not bad for 10 seconds! You were lucky to get that shot :)
Any tips, not really. This is my own personal preference, I'd probably darken it a little and maybe balance the image a bit towards the blue like this (I used the side of a concrete building to get my white balance). What do you think, too blue ?
A touch too blue, but much better than the original. What did you edit it with?
I also took about a hundred 10s images to get that one shot :)
Gimp 2.8. I just dropped the brightness a little and set white against the side of the building (which is problably why it is a bit blue). Some people have been doing competitions where you post an image and ask people to process it, and the best result gets 1 SBD. They often get 10x that in votes so it's a pretty good model :)
How about this?
What do you think of this? This was set the whitebalance on the cloud, desaturated the image about 30%, darkened it and played a little with the individual green and blue levels.
That's awesome!
I only used Gimp for the first time yesterday and I wasn't confident to play around with the colour balance to much.
Thanks @aghunter! I find colour balance a bit of challenge too, as even just setting a whitepoint on an image may not be good enough and you still end up with a cast. In that image I got a bit lazy and looked at couple of images of lightening on the web I liked and d tried to match the colour balance with the colour sliders. I think the clouds having a dark grey-blue to grey-purple seems to have the most effect. Also having the clouds a bit darker brings out the lightening a bit more.