Ominous Clouds This Morning

[pradeep1]

A pro photographer friend of mine was driving to work this morning and he called me from his car and told me to go outside and look at the clouds. There was this weird boundary layer and it was rippled, almost like waves in a sea. Very neat looking.

[pradeep1]

Here is a modified version that I thought looks neat:

[Mills]

Cool, especially number 2.

[Michaelmjc]

I liek the seocnd one better, the colors jump out.

[pradeep1]

One is real, the other is enhanced - or fake. ;) I like the second one too, but I could not pass that off as the real thing.

[cactusclay]

I like the first one, very cool.

[Columbus Photo]

I also like the first one better!

[Titus213]

Even number 1 doesn't look real. Amazing! Nice picture too. I'll bet that if you had that printed as a poster most people would not believe it was photograph. Did it result in any kind of storm?

[PaCiFiSt]

Woaahh thats cool looking

[pradeep1]

Even number 1 doesn't look real. Amazing! Nice picture too. I'll bet that if you had that printed as a poster most people would not believe it was photograph. Did it result in any kind of storm?


Yes, actually it rained so hard with such violent lightening that I had to close my office for a two hours because all of our machines were turned off. Some places they had power outages due to lightening. Even the first image is "edited". It had been underexposed, so I upped the exposure to +1/2 in the RAW converter and added local contrast enhancement. The colors and tones are pretty much true to the original.

[amokkoma]

That's amazing!!!!
What a shot - actually both of them
soooo cool

[wintoid]

Good grief, it's very hard to imagine either being real. Very amazing photos.

[pradeep1]

Here is another one taken portrait with the 17-40L. The clouds seemed to go on and and on, and they seemed to be rolling over you. It was a strange sight to look ahead and see these strange clouds. It was even stranger to see the pattern continuing as you looked up as well. Weird.

[c0ntr0lz]

should sell those photos to the movies, the scary movies

[AFCop]

Whoah! Very ominous looking! Great Capture!

[RockOne]

Absolutely awesome clouds !.

[Killed]

i like 3rd...what a weird clouds near ur house :P

[Simon Spiers]

That is Mammatus cloud!
Great example to!

[PaCiFiSt]

That is insane..

[KenW]

Cool!!

[peter/c]

Looks like something from another planet..very strange.
Peter.

[jgbeam]

Those are scary looking clouds! WOW!

Jim

[swapnali]

#2 is beautiful shot.

[davidinjp]

swapnali, I agree with you... great shot that is.

... but why did you wait over three years to comment? :-)

[zucchini]

Wow, those are incredible.

[digidiva]

That is Mammatus cloud!
Great example to!

I second that. To see Mammatus this extreme is a rare thing indeed...you're very lucky!

[inthedeck]

Defintely some interesting clouds there. Rare moments are even more special, so good on you for capturing them. Even better, that you had someone that told you about them, so there wasn't a missed opportunity.

[swapnali]

swapnali, I agree with you... great shot that is.

... but why did you wait over three years to comment? :-)
Umm... I was waiting for a better shot;)
Anyways I stumbled upon this while searching something. and found very beautiful. So regardless of the OP date, I responded.

[boblybill]

Hmmmm... I AM SO JEALOUS OF YOU RIGHT NOW!!!!! Jealous of the awesome pictures and the awesome sight to behold.

[pointerDixie214]

I love #2- almost looks fake! Very cool!

[notsotechie]

Well done great capture.
Thank your friend for letting you know.

It looks very scarey.

Cheers

[black_z]

Awesome!!

[pradeep1]

should sell those photos to the movies, the scary movies

Yeah, they can use them as backgrounds on their full sized posters. :)

[Avi]

#1 and #3 are my pick...they look more natural...

Avi