Cloud show yesterday morning: Taken with an A7 II monochrome (no Bayer array) with a 35mm lens and a yellow filter. Everything in the foreground was under the overcast. Exposed to the...

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Taken with an A7 II monochrome (no Bayer array) with a 35mm lens and a yellow filter.

Everything in the foreground was under the overcast.

Exposed to the right and exposure adjusted -0.7 stops in Capture One. No highlight or shadow adjustments.

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peekaboo

Nice shot

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

selmslie wrote:

Taken with an A7 II monochrome (no Bayer array) with a 35mm lens and a yellow filter.

Everything in the foreground was under the overcast.

Exposed to the right and exposure adjusted -0.7 stops in Capture One. No highlight or shadow adjustments.

Magnificent 🖤☁️☁️🖤

Quixdraw Loc: x

Fine monochrome with a broad range of values captured. If it were mine, I'd play with kicking down the brightest cloud highlights.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Well done, Scotty.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

selmslie wrote:

Taken with an A7 II monochrome (no Bayer array) with a 35mm lens and a yellow filter.

Everything in the foreground was under the overcast.

Exposed to the right and exposure adjusted -0.7 stops in Capture One. No highlight or shadow adjustments.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

peekaboo wrote:

Nice shot

joecichjr wrote:

Magnificent 🖤☁️☁️🖤

quixdraw wrote:

Fine monochrome with a broad range of values captured. If it were mine, I'd play with kicking down the brightest cloud highlights.

UTMike wrote:

Well done, Scotty.

Architect1776 wrote:

Thank you all for your kind sentiments.

Regarding the brightness of the highlights, the blinkies were telling me that I was pushing my luck with the exposure - 1/500s @ f/11 ISO 200 - but the camera's histograms showed no spikes at the right end and when I looked at the raw histogram with RawDigger it agreed:

Nevertheless, after a couple more shots I increased the shutter speed to 1/800s to reduce the blinkies and move the histograms left by 2/3 stop. The overall rendition is about the same.

The highlights are extremely bright because that is about as bright as white clouds can get, something that we don't see every day.

I left the shadows dark so the clouds would stand out.

Not ETTR, still no highlight or shadow adjustments

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Raw histogram at 1/800s
Raw histogram at 1/800s...

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Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

selmslie wrote:

Taken with an A7 II monochrome (no Bayer array) with a 35mm lens and a yellow filter.

Everything in the foreground was under the overcast.

Exposed to the right and exposure adjusted -0.7 stops in Capture One. No highlight or shadow adjustments.

Great Image!!!!

angler Loc: StHelens England

Nice shot.

tcthome Loc: NJ

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Very nice shot Scotty!

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Nice black and white!

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Manglesphoto wrote:

Great Image!!!!

angler wrote:

Nice shot.

yssirk123 wrote:

Very nice shot Scotty!

jaymatt wrote:

Nice black and white!

Thank you all.

I should also point out that Sunny 16 (1/400s) would have blown the raw highlights in the first image. What saved it was that I exposed it 1/3 stop darker at 1/500s.

But there was no harm in not trying for ETTR in the subsequent images by using 1/800s. Even the JPEGs SOOC looked right at that exposure.

BudsOwl Loc: Upstate NY and New England

selmslie wrote:

Taken with an A7 II monochrome (no Bayer array) with a 35mm lens and a yellow filter.

Everything in the foreground was under the overcast.

Exposed to the right and exposure adjusted -0.7 stops in Capture One. No highlight or shadow adjustments.

Great! That’s what a black and white is supposed to look like. I really liked making shots like that waaaaay back in the black and white film days. Thanks for the nostalgic shot.
Bud

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Fantastic image Scotty.