Train Track

[macocroft]

Train Track - Tone Mapped from a single RAW. Click for Flickr with bigger sizes

[zucchini]

Something doesn't seem right. Why is the base of the clouds so straight?

[Copilot]

Don't really like it, you are too far from the subject.

[macocroft]

Originally Posted by zucchini

Something doesn't seem right. Why is the base of the clouds so straight?

They were actually like that

[amckenzie4]

Originally Posted by zucchini

Something doesn't seem right. Why is the base of the clouds so straight?

That's pretty common in some areas. I could go into why, but I try not to bore people unnecessarily.

That aside, I love the composition and the clouds: I'm not a huge fan of the processing on the rest of the image, but it's pretty nice overall.

[paiintballa182]

Originally Posted by amckenzie4

That's pretty common in some areas. I could go into why, but I try not to bore people unnecessarily.

That aside, I love the composition and the clouds: I'm not a huge fan of the processing on the rest of the image, but it's pretty nice overall.

actually, im pretty curious as to why as well

[amckenzie4]

Originally Posted by paiintballa182

actually, im pretty curious as to why as well

*grin* Fair enough: the short version: Clouds form when water vapor condenses onto particles -- basically dust -- in the atmosphere. However, in order to condense, the temperature has to be below a certain point (which depends on a lot of factors), and there has to be enough of it. As you rise away from sea level, the temperature tends to lower, and as an air-mass rises, it expands and cools. That means that, frequently, you'll get a situation where warm, moist air rises and expands until it hits just the right point, at which point it forms a cloud: if the temperature differential is sharp enough, you can end up with clouds that have almost perfectly flat bottom edges. I'm really not sure why it happens more in some places than others, but it does seem to be that way.

Incidentally, this is also why you tend to get clouds "piled up" along mountain ranges -- wind moving against them brings moisture up the side of the mountain until it condenses.

Now, back to discussing the actual picture.

Having looked more at the larger version, I like the processing more than I did at first glance. The closer trees, grass, and the post on the left still seem a little odd to me, but I like the picture overall more than I did originally.

[leeport]

I like the PP. It would help if more of the grassy area was cropped out, to concentrate more on your subject. Over all, I like it alot.