Dust Storm Wakool

[CMunzel]

[johntwo]

Lovely atmosphere and nicely pastoral CM.  For me, I think it might have been more selective compositionally to simplify it.  You really need all of the tree at the top and a few less sheep at the bottom.  I've roughly clones and cropped and one possibility might look something like the image below but there will be others.  But....that's just my take. 

[kev7d]

Gives a real indication of the conditions that you face.  Makes my eyes sore looking at it.  

[CMunzel]

Thank you, John, for putting thought and effort into my photo. Interesting. I agree with your thoughts about the composition. When I took the photo, I tried to simplify the number of sheep and get the tree in the right place, without success. When post processing it, I spent some time removing some of the sheep in the front right hand corner but ended up posting it without these changes. I appreciate Jacqui’s comments about not messing with nature. there is probably a middle ground between contrived and bad composition: I’ll have another go at it. 

The conditions did make my eyes sore, Kev7D: nearby paddocks must have been ploughed and the wild wind was taking the dry top soil off. Not good. You may be aware that Australian soils are ancient and “thin” making ploughing risky. 

[FUJI]

The tonal qualities of this study are wonderful to study...but I wouldn’t actually like to be there.....very hot weather isn’t my thing.

Seeing this and the shots of Kangaroos by Kobione the other day remind us of what conditions are like on the other side of the Globe.

It is always wonderful to see how things are.

I do like the adjustments done by John....but....also agree somewhat with Jacqui ....somewhere in between perhaps ?

FUJI

[Rick448]

That's a very nice image, you do get a range of weather extremes there!

[johntwo]

Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting that the composition should be changed in post processing to something like the version I showed.  Changing it after the event to that extent isn't really what photography is about.  My version was meant to be an illustration of a the sort of faming that you could look for at the time of taking the shot.  Glad it was helpful though.

[CMunzel]

Thank you for clarifying, John.