Flag in a stoorm

[Riod]

I was at my son's lacrosse game when all of sudden, lightning and thunder stopped the game and a violent storm blew into the area. Every one ran for the cover of the pavillion, including me! As we were waiting for the storm to pass, I noticed a small light grey cloud zooming by at around 30 miles an hour. I had time to frame one shot! Unfortunately, my camera was set for the bright skies that preceded the game! I was set at iso 400, f/9 and 1/500. As a result, the image was greatly under exposed and really does not show what I saw through the view finder. But, in an effort to salvage the image, I converted it to grey scale leaving the flag red, white and blue.

I think the contrasts are what make this a nice image.

I used Paint Shop Pro to manipulate the image.


http://home.comcast.net/~riod/Flag_in_storm_web.jpg

[Belmondo]

Nicely done. I really like it --- a lot.

[FJC]

That is VERY nicely done.

[Persian-Rice]

iso 400 is quite high for a nice bright day hah.
The picture is really really nice, I think that the noise does hurt the final product quite a bit. But its a great shot nevertheless.

BTW wrong forum :wink:

[Ballen Photo]

That cloud framed the Flag quite nicely. :D
.........Bruce

[Bruce Foreman]

I was at my son's lacrosse game when all of sudden, lightning and thunder stopped the game and a violent storm blew into the area. Every one ran for the cover of the pavillion, including me!


Very good salvage! Be a great image to use on cards or letters to military folks serving.

Tip: I carry a 1 gallon Ziplock freezer bag in my camera bag. I got caught in a deluge in Austin at a ceremony in front of the Capitol bldg. Even soaked my cordua camera bag by the time I could get to partial shelter at the entrance.

I worked with a guy whose wife tipped a glass of water over on his Sony Mavica (back when those things were $800 and he was a lower ranking airman!) Sony would not help him at all and the camera was a total loss.

The ziplock bag may save a camera.

Bruce Foreman

[Riod]

The baggies are a great idea! I have had on in my camera bag for around 6 months now (after I got caught in a rain storm!). It's the little things that count.