I was at the beach with my friends at my bachelor´s weekend party, and in a matter of 20 minutes, a thunderstorm formed, and the cloud formation was so stunning I had to take the picture (despite the advice from the life guards to get out of the beach). I only had my cellphone with me, not my camera. I hope you like it and I welcome any comments/critiques.
P.S.: By the way, I am not a landscape photographer.
Iphone SE
Edited with Snapseed.
Pretty gnarly man. Was this the future wife teleporting in to keep an eye on the festivities and ensure the boys were behaving? I use Snapseed for a lot of mobile edits and the results look fine for IG / phone viewing. This is a shot that may be worth your time in LR though just to see how clean you make the final image, though. Definitely a nice catch - grats.
It might have been my future wife ;) although we did behave.
Yes, I am going to take it to LR to see what I can do there, even though my cellphone does not shoot raw. We´ll see.
Thanks for the comment and feedback Robert!
Thats pretty incredible, ive never seen a cloud formation like that.
That's a pretty amazing capture, with so much drama.
I am actually a big proponent of mobile captures, and have seen wonderful shots in juried exhibitions etc that were not obvious (mobile shots) until the descriptions were read.
I think as long as you take the same amount of care and attention to composition and detail as you would do otherwise a mobile is a great tool to have around, especially when opportunities like this pop up.
The issue arises of course when you try to enlarge, but you should be able to do enough in LR to further enhance an blow up to a reasonable size..
Wow! Mother Nature can be awesome, in the old sense of that word. Love that glow in the middle!
And you've done a great job! You've got a great composition, with the water & foam in foreground mirroring the cloud's light & dark areas, and all those beautiful cool tones balanced by the sand..
One thing intrigues me - did you use some panning panorama phone feature? The horizon seems to have a peculiar curvature not consistent with lens distortion.
Just an unbelievable shot. And I love the title of your post. This is a truly great image. The slightly aquamarine tint in the middle of those clouds? Awesome! Alfred Steiglitz would be proud (and jealous he lived in an age before such small portable cameras or color film for that matter). Great shot! Enjoy it!
Greatly captured panorama, but only for internet use (technical quality, pretty low). There are people who deal with such 'things' but do not use the phone :)
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