Approaching Rain - Firth of Forth

I took these last weekend at North Queensferry in an attempt to get some nice sunset photos. I was a bit late for the sunset, but the sky gave up some interesting imagery none the less, as some rain clouds moved in from the west. C&C most appreciated!

1) (17mm, 1sec @ f/11, ISO 100, ND Grad)

Both nice skies Graham but i think i prefer the 1st one with the bridge buddy.

Both shots show some excellent cloud formations, but I have to agree with Dmitri, the first one of the bridge is the better of the two.

The first is awesome, I take it you did a little photoshoppery to really bring out the clouds?

Beautiful sky with the bridge.

Nice captures. There's some great weather planned for the UK this week, I'm sure you'll be out to capture one.

You're right there Graham, interesting skys. No 1 is the best for me, very dramatic.....

Rog

Thanks for the comments Dimitri, number 1 is my favourite too, it's a shame my lens was not wide enough to be able to get the whole bridge in!

Thanks Strax, I appreciate the feedback.

Thanks for the kind comments Mint_Sauce. As far as post processing goes, I added quite a bit of shadow contrast in RawShooter to bring out the depth in the layers of the cloud. I also produced two versions of the image from RSE, one processed for the foreground and one processed for the sky and then combined them using The Gimp.

Thanks R Hardman, it definitely looks like the first shot is the favourite out of the two!

Thanks Andydajo, we're pretty warm up this way at the moment and it looks like the week is only going to get warmer! Time to break out the t-shirts and shorts me thinks!

Raindancer wrote:
You're right there Graham, interesting skys. No 1 is the best for me, very dramatic.....

Appreciate the feedback Rog! Thanks indeed!

Beautiful skies, Graham. No.1 gets my vote too. A cracker

weemannie wrote:
Beautiful skies, Graham. No.1 gets my vote too. A cracker

one, I like the sky and the use of the 17mm

First one for me, moody broody sky well taken, if you could clone that daft Yaris in the second, it would work better

Thanks for the kind comments Trevor, The Fritz and Ian!

Ian it's funny you should mention the daft Yaris! I tried cropping it out but it made the photo an odd shape which just didn't look right (and also cropped out an interesting piece of sky). I think I really should have panned left and took in more of the end of the bridge but such is life! One lives and learns hey!

excellent shots, very dramatic

Thanks Behzad, very kind of you to comment!