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Can clouds really be this colour?

 
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Oct 03, 2012 18:11 |  #1

Yup, they can.
This setting sun was throwing amazing colour on some incredible clouds.

ONE

IMAGE: http://suethomas.ca/images/Misc/20120919_IbexSettingSun_22A.jpg


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IMAGE: http://suethomas.ca/images/Misc/20120919_IbexSettingSun_20A.jpg


THREE
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FOUR
IMAGE: http://suethomas.ca/images/Misc/20120919_IbexSettingSun_14A.jpg


Earlier in the day, this was the scene ...

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Oct 03, 2012 18:31 |  #2

Sure they can and add a little of the right saturation boost and watch the color come out of them.


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Oct 03, 2012 18:35 |  #3

they sure can! :) Really like the formations in number 4


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Oct 03, 2012 22:48 |  #4

Really gorgeous shots!


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Oct 04, 2012 07:11 |  #5

As the sun sets and the light disperses through our Atmosphere, the colors can be incredible. This is obvious in your clouds, another example is a full moon when it first rises, it is full of color until it gets higher in the sky before it turns a lack luster gray. Nice shots.


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Oct 04, 2012 08:29 |  #6

That evening sun can do magic with clouds just as your photos show.


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Oct 04, 2012 08:59 |  #7

Clouds are great, but, also noticed your leaves changing to autumn/fall color in #2 and #4. I think I would be trying to incorporate the two somehow. KUDOS.


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Oct 04, 2012 09:08 |  #8

The first couple are very Turner-esque. Lovely :)


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Oct 04, 2012 09:15 |  #9

#1 is my favorite. Nice framing.


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Oct 04, 2012 09:34 |  #10

Joe929 wrote in post #15078278 (external link)
As the sun sets and the light disperses through our Atmosphere, the colors can be incredible. This is obvious in your clouds, another example is a full moon when it first rises, it is full of color until it gets higher in the sky before it turns a lack luster gray.

In the north we live iin "high definition". The colours are often jaw-dropping just as they are. The difficulty becomes capturing that vibrance in the air. The night of those clouds I was walking around with the camera, repeating, "Wow", "Wow!", hoping my camera was capturing the scene.

I did the moon two days before it was a full moon. This same moon provided so much light that no artificial light is needed for a hike in the 'dark'. This is a colour image ...

IMAGE: http://suethomas.ca/images/Misc/20120927_Moon.JPG


A few nights before the colour on the rising moon was in incredible, maybe due to forest fire smoke in the air

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Oct 04, 2012 12:18 |  #11

Beautiful shots ! I just love cloud formations & when the rising or setting sun is adding color its just amazing.


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