05-04-11 – Cloudscapes

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  • #13671
    lokisbong
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    Question: Things like paper mills around here make clouds. There’s this nifty plant nearby that looks awesome (I think) at night with the lights from the plant illuminating the cloud its making. Do those kinds of clouds count? They’re unintentionally man made, so I feel it proper to ask. It’s not smoke coming out, it’s steam.

    I see your point about them being man made clouds since they are just steam. I think Plamadude30k is gonna have to weigh in on this one. I would probably say yes if it was my theme having seen a few plumes from paper mills in my time.

    #13669
    Plamadude30k
    Participant

    Well, my first reaction was to allow it, but the more I thought about it, the less it seems like a cloud-the spirit of the theme was intended to be for actual clouds. HOWEVER! I have slept on it, and after a good night’s rest, I’m feeling more charitable. As long as the focus is on the sky and cloud-like phenomena in it, then I think it’ll work. Cloudscape photography is supposed to be just like landscape photography, only in the sky. There’s no rule in landscape photography that says we can’t photograph man-made things.

    #13668
    SilverStag
    Participant

    Since I love to stir the pot, how about cloud panoramae? Like so:


    270 degrees of spring dawn by pjern, on Flickr

    #13667
    Plamadude30k
    Participant

    Hmm, I’d like to hear from the community at large about their thoughts on allowing panoramas. I know Orionid was against allowing them in ‘Fifteen Minutes’ because it has been used more frequently in recent contests, and I think panos would lend themselves much better to that contest to this, so I’m inclined to say no on those grounds. What do people think?

    #13666
    Kestrana
    Participant

    Well I’m of 2 minds on that. 1. landscape photography is better suited to panoramas I think than anything else and you just said this was landscape photography in the sky but 2. allowing panoramas opens the door on allowing stitching and hdr and other things. Cropped panoramas (i.e. normal photos cropped to look like a panorama) would be fine with me though.

    #13665
    orionid
    Participant

    I’m in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

    I just noticed your new tagline and location. +1

    /Also, FWIW, I just realized that your handle could be translated as “Harry Potter’s Patronus.”

    //Also, -1 on the stitched panos for this one.

    #13664
    ravnostic
    Participant

    -1 on stitched.

    #13663
    SilverStag
    Participant

    I’m in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

    I just noticed your new tagline and location. +1

    /Also, FWIW, I just realized that your handle could be translated as “Harry Potter’s Patronus.”

    Except that my handle predates HP by a wide margin 🙂

    #13662
    orionid
    Participant

    Technicalities.

    #13661
    olavf
    Participant

    I’m inclined to vote -1 on panos too.

    #13660
    Elsinore
    Keymaster

    Yeah I don’t think we need panos for this one.

    #13659
    lokisbong
    Participant

    agreed on the – 1 for panos.

    #13587
    kashari
    Participant

    So would jet-trails that have been moved around in the atmosphere, where they look like wispy clouds, work?

    #13571
    Plamadude30k
    Participant

    Yes, contrails work.

    #13670
    kashari
    Participant

    Yes, contrails work.

    Ok, great, thanks!

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