Today's photos were taken shortly after yesterday's. The difference is I framed them vertically which further emphasizes the clouds. Like all the shots in my everglades series it's a three-shot 4EV range HDR. Also like most of the it was taken while the airboat was in motion. Since the primary features are the horizon and the clouds, the movement only shows lightly in the sawgrass nearest the camera.
I played around with the black and white conversion to make the whole image darker, the clouds more threatening. That's one of the huge advantages of digital over film – you can easily make a wide variation of ‘looks'. In the darkroom it would take a lot more effort in dodging and burning, masking, etc. to craft a particular look that can be done today in a few layers with a few brush strokes. All of which is a round about way of saying I admire the printers of yore who would toil away in the darkroom to craft images from the negatives entrusted to them. I was never that good in the darkroom – I lacked the patience.
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