A new photography world to explore! Digital photography and clouds.

What did we ever do before digital.  You know a few years ago back in the stone-ages :)

Great stuff Richard.  Been doing this myself since I got my new camera.  Lot to learn in this photography world.

Richard - love your philosophy of looking heavenward, with the attraction of observing clouds. Too easy to become myopic and self centered. The sky presents a changing world, expressing all sorts of emotions, changing drama. At sunrise the majesty of a new beginning; at sunset, a reward for a well spent day. Thanks for your observations.

Richard- I just tried to take a pic of some clouds we saw yesterday as we were heading for our walk.  I'll have to see how they look on the PC and then some "ribbetting"to them.   And love Larry's (#4) comment.  

I love to "find" things in the clouds.  Never thought much about capturing them with digital.  Hmmmm, something new.

Hi Richard, and another thing about clouds...you have to be quick, or the light changes and they move- you have some great shots here.

Those pictures could be perfect for a real estate ad. .about finding a dream home. . 

Great pictures and interesting information.

I remember going to the grand canyon and think "Okay, big hole" I'll take some pictures. When the pictures where developed the colors were much more vibrant than I remembered.

I have noticed that my ability to get a good picture has improved tremendously with a digital camera. This of course is only because I turn it into a numbers game and for every thousand pictures I take I might get a couple that turn out well.

Never thought about how cool it is that we can take photos of viritually anything and see such a great likeness to what we are actually SEEING.

Love to photograph stuff looking up. You definitely have your head in the clouds and we love it.

Margaret

Hey Richard we missed for the most part the storms that made those clouds . But we did get a bunch of the rain. Thanks for the post and the info

I have done mostly storm clouds without much success.  I will have to try the puffy everyday clouds for a change.

Great idea!

Digital photography has made amateur photographers out of a lot of us. Beautiful pics!

What was there before digital cameras, I forget?  I agree the contrast is amazing.

Ah I remember those days. I still mess around with a film camera now and again and I find that I have the same issue. Clouds just don't come out how you would want them to. Thank goodness for digital!

Richard, Great topic for the post. True clouds work much much better in digital than in film, but they are still one of the most difficult subjects to get right. I find it works best to save them in the RAW format instead of JPEG and then open them in lightroom and make adjustments.