In my work to remove noise, this one lost some detail. Also, for the composition here, it would have been good to move in closer to that tiny little oil pump you can see on the horizon up there so the pump was more prominent with the storm behind it. Chases are hectic ... since I'm usually on my own, I'm doing several jobs at once. It's easy to forget to take some time to try some different things with photos. I don't really know why I'm converting these to B&W ... On this one, I burned below the horizon line to make it totally black. Colors were really muted on this storm anyway, because of all the grunge and moisture.KMBC Channel 9's helicopter was flying over my head when I took this, by the way. I didn't know which station it belonged to until going back later and trying to watch Smallville on my DVR. What I thought would be S-ville turned out to be Brian Busby's live report for the storms that night. Anyway, it was cool to see this scene from several hundred feet higher than my position here. He kept showing sweeps of the ground and I was thinking how weird it was that I was probably in that shot somewhere.
Been working with layers and masks in PS to learn how to increase the tonal range on a RAW image. The first version of this was HDR (below). This one was a single RAW image where the foreground is masked and levels adjusted. A gradient was added.
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