Comments | zastrazzi: Storm chasing in southern and central Alberta

zastrazzi

Storm chasing in southern and central Alberta

Jul 17, 2010 21:24

Not quite sure how I was bitten with the storm chasing bug, but I have. Just glad it ties in well with my love of driving and photography! I'm discovering that tracking down information on HOW to storm chase is difficult. So my intention is to maintain a storm chaser page with links and info and data. This will be an ongoing project ( Read more... )

funnel cloud, storm chasing, alberta, tornado, extreme weather

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opaqueplanet July 18 2010, 03:29:42 UTC

That is some stunning canola. Did you tweak the colour on that one, or is that original? I've seen storms make those colour effects, but it always looks so... brighter than life, you know?

zastrazzi July 18 2010, 03:37:45 UTC

I darkened the clouds a smidge by increasing the amount of shadow... didn't tweak the canola :)

zastrazzi July 18 2010, 03:39:11 UTC

There's of course more shots up on Flickr, just click the images to see more + bigger.

opaqueplanet July 18 2010, 05:09:10 UTC

re: IMG_7565

all the way! what does it mean?!

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blackpage July 19 2010, 05:14:41 UTC

Those are really, really beautiful pics.

zastrazzi July 23 2010, 02:13:08 UTC

Danke! It looks like I'll actually be selling more than a few prints of the top one which thrills me to no end.

nice time to check in... fiendishdreams July 23 2010, 01:57:03 UTC

and see these gorgeous shots!!! NICE!

btw, how come you're not uploading full res to Flickr? I'm just back in Canukian lands and thought to at long last back up some shots on that site... what have you learned over the last year that you no longer do so??

Re: nice time to check in... zastrazzi July 23 2010, 02:12:15 UTC

Had a couple places swipe my photos for relatively prominent use, so I'm trying to make that less attractive while also still uploading large enough images for people to appreciate the photo. Hard to find a middle ground, but hopefully this is as small as I need to go. I know a few photographers that only upload 640x480 images with fairly obvious watermarking, and I really don't want to go that route.

Another reason I'm not uploading full res to flickr is sheer file size. The raw files created on my 7D are nearly 25M each!

Also, thanks for the compliment! I never turn down positive feedback :)

Re: nice time to check in... fiendishdreams July 23 2010, 02:17:17 UTC

Ah! Thanks !

Also, regarding the compliments- your photography is incredible! Now that I'm in the land of much internet and more time, I'll get to go take a peek!

Re: nice time to check in... zastrazzi July 23 2010, 02:19:58 UTC

There's a fair bit up, but most of the really good shots are in galleries over at http://tremaine.smugmug.com/ :)

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