Check this out! (Supercell storm photos)

[Frimp]

These photos are amazing and scary at the same time. I want to see something like that...but then again, I'm not sure I'd want to be around for it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1334672/Jaw-dropping-image-enormous-supercell-cloud-Glasgow-Montana.html

[bsmooth]

I saw the article, cool pics

[bsfins]

Cool pics,But I kept looking at them going, they've had to tweaked the hell out of them,or HDRI. (Sorry,I've been really trying to learn lighting and all the little quirks) is it just me?

[Frimp]

He may have enhanced them a little bit, but I don't think its HDR, or even a long exposure. Nothing is blurred. If it was an HDR, the frames wouldn't match up because of movement. If it was a long exposure, there would be a lack of detail because whatever was moving would be blurry. Look at the tree on the left of this picture of mine. Its blurry because of the wind, and that is only a 1/2 second exposure.



It did say that the first photo was stitched. That's something I wish I knew how to do.

[bsfins]

A lot of the features in Photoshop allow that now....I think Lightroom might have some too (I don't have lightroom) Don't some cameras have the ability to take 1 picture,and save it in two or three different exposure ranges?

(Of the pictures in that thread) it seems he doesn't have the disadvantage of things of major detail in the foreground.

Pretty cool pic there yourself Frimp

[Brian Fein]

The first photo looks enhanced, like Topaz or something, but the others look ridiculous.  Wow!  Thanks for the pics.

[Frimp]

A lot of the features in Photoshop allow that now....I think Lightroom might have some too (I don't have lightroom) Don't some cameras have the ability to take 1 picture,and save it in two or three different exposure ranges?

(Of the pictures in that thread) it seems he doesn't have the disadvantage of things of major detail in the foreground.

Pretty cool pic there yourself Frimp

Yeah, you're right. Some cameras do have that setting. I've been out of the camera loop for a while since my camera gear got stolen. (come on tax return!) so they could be HDR.

But the clouds have sharp edges on them which is why I don't think they are long exposures.

That pic of mine is the only shot of lightning that I've been able to get. Damn, I miss my cameras!

[Sunstroke]

I made the second photo in that article (the spaceship with the column of rain) as my desktop on my home PC. That is just a mind-bogglingly cool shot.