Good choice to convert to B/w. You captured a lot of drama in the sky. There shouldn't be much noise at your settings, but to my eye the sky appears a bit noisy. Maybe backing off texture and using more dehaze would help. My eye is attracted to the light sky on the right which leads it out of the image. you might consider flipping it horizontally   Posted: 07/05/2026 16:40:08

Hi Tracy. Nice weather photo! The storm clouds on the east coast never seem to disappoint. I like how the cloud mass is divided between heavy, layered clouds and smoother, almost featureless clouds on the left. It gives the scene as sense of impending rain. For me, the bright sky on the right adds a nice contrast to the dark, gloomy tones from the storm. I also like the birds along the shoreline as they add a bit of life and interest to the photo.   Posted: 07/05/2026 18:14:12

I always like images that show off bad weather. This dark sky is really awesome. The monochrome was a great idea but the midtones are a bit muddy and lack separation. If ou can separate the midtones you can increase the detail in the dark clouds. Large burned out areas, such as what is on the right side are real killers. When composing try to keep these out of the frame. There is nothing much you can do to fix this since there is no detail in the overexposed areas to recover.   Posted: 07/05/2026 18:17:23

Tracy - I have experienc similar scenes on the southwest coast of Florida and I love this image! As Larry mentioned, the overly bright areas in the lower right are distracting and there's nothing you can do about it now. However, your R6 has the ability to set your review screen to show the "Blinkies" to flash where the areas are blown out so you can adjust your settings and shoot again. Check your camera settings &/or YouTube to learn how to do it on your R6. (Yeah,"blinkies" is a real term) and huge help when shooting high contrast situations. But I do love this image. It's very powerful and the black-and-white treatment almost isn't necessary because I suspect as you said it pretty much looked black-and-white. Nice job!   Posted: 07/11/2026 18:41:12

A strong feeling of storm. Very nicely done. The wide range of tonality is great. I think this picture will work well in landscape crop too.

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Thank you, Adi and Grace. I'll look at the landscape crop and try to remember to review for blinkies.   Posted: 07/12/2026 14:02:25

The dark clouds and oncoming rain create a lot of drama in this image. I think the B&W treatment was the right call. I agree with Larry that the loss of detail on the blown out area is a bit of a problem. I also see a lot of noise in the clouds that Michael mentioned. I think it's something in post processing, probably the texture. ISO 640 should really not create that much noise. So the big problem with an image like this is that your eye has much greater dynamic range than your camera for exposure, so things you can see will loose detail depending on the camera settings, if the lighting is at to high a contrast. The best way to compensate for this is to take multiple images with different exposures, in this case one to capture the dark clouds with a high exposure and one for the bright area on the right with a low exposure. These images can then be composted together in post processing. Some camera's have an HDR setting which does the same thing but I have had mixed results with that.   Posted: 07/13/2026 17:50:18