Below an Ashen Sky
Below an Ashen Sky - 7.4mm at f/3.2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/2000 second
It looks like mother nature has decided to give us another wonderful day of warm weather. I'm beginning to think it has something to do with the ash cloud. I forget who it was that suggested the Twitter tag #ashtag for following the real-time updates on Twitter, but it made me smile.
I took this photograph yesterday while walking around some farmland which is right next to a pretty busy main road. No crop circles with the lack of vegetation unfortunately. Actually that might be worth looking into in future. Photographing crop circles. I know what you're thinking: You need a plane for that, but I've seen some from hilltops that were perfectly photogenic. It might make an interesting summer project. Keep it realistic, by going for just one decent photograph.
This image was processed with Capture One 5 Pro. What exactly did I do to the original RAW file? I changed the ICC Profile to "Leaf LF2 Product 5". That is all I did to this image. Capture One software sharpening is defaulted to be on, so all of the images I process have at least a mild amount of sharpening to make up for lens deficiencies, and that's a pretty standard change to make, so I don't mention it every single post.
