Dark and Brooding

[Atmos]

There was some pretty foreboding clouds hanging around Melbourne this afternoon, gave me an excuse to get out the old Nikkor 50mm F/1.8D.
After a couple of minutes of playing with random sliders in Lightroom :)

[Atmos]

I'll be the first to admit, opening it in PixInsight and seeing how far I can push it can be dangerous! Possibly gone a little hard but I quite like it personally. Mostly just wanted to increase the contrast further than what I could easily do in Lightroom, also wanted to do some large scale sharpening (200 pixel radius) and my knowledge of Lightroom doesn't really go past basic sliders :lol:

P.S.
It looks better when standing a metre or two away.

[Regulus]

Love your work.
That's a great pic to play around with.
This one in Corel Paintshop Pro V9. Yours is much more dramatic though.

[Atmos]

It's probably a lot easier with the original 24mp image :P
Nicely played with Trevor though!

[Regulus]

Yep, always better with the larger file (or RAW).