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-- Dust Storm --

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Title     -- Dust Storm --
Photographer     joyia/Sardar Muhammad (72,279) Send mail to this user
Portfolio     Nature
Categories     Decisive Moment
Snapshot
Weather
Camera     Canon EOS 350D
Content advisory     G (general audiences)
Submitted     September 26, 2010 4:49:18 AM CDT
Views     361
Rating     7 Thumb-up

I was trying to catch the clouds farmation .. at the same time a dark cloud traveling beneth the clouds very rapidly started to approch ..It was dust storm .. when they come day becomes night , there is very less light .. winds could go up to 50 to 80 miles per hour.. and then dust is every where.. I just waited enough to let it come near and then clicked .. then has to run to safe me and camera .. not sure how it came out :) best of regards. JOYIA

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from samias/Asghar (3,654) Send mail to this user on September 26, 2010 12:44:06 PM CDT (3)

Hi JOYIA, I know how is difficult to shoot such a photo , i read your explanation and you have taken a nice photo but in my taste some more details about its envirnment can help the imagine . Thank you for your sharing .

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From joyia/Sardar Muhammad (72,279) Send mail to this user on September 26, 2010 12:53:51 PM CDT

Thanks dear Asghar for your kind words and appriciation .. you are right about details .. but they only could come if I waited a lil more long and let it come over my head.. then I would have lost the brighter part as contrast to the darker part .. so glad you like it :) thanks for stoping by ..best of regards.. JOYIA

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from boone168/Bunhamin (21,088) Send mail to this user on September 26, 2010 7:11:07 AM CDT (3) Early critique

Hi, Joyia. Interesting image. I have never seen dust storm before and never experience it too (except from the movie). The dust storm looks threatening enough from your image. I can imagine the bright sky soon will be covered by the dust. Thanks for sharing.

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From joyia/Sardar Muhammad (72,279) Send mail to this user on September 26, 2010 7:16:14 AM CDT

Thanks dear Bunhamin for your kind words and appriciation .. I have been trying to capture weather shot inspired by the wonderful weather photographers.. They do a wonderful job to capture the supper cells..ternados and lightings.. they got more furious weather out there ..but we don't have like that here.. it was a try to capture the weather , I am so glad you like it ;) thanks for stoping by .. best of regards.. JOYIA

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Thumb-up    from wolli/Ian (56,891) This user is a Premium Member Send mail to this user on September 26, 2010 5:50:39 AM CDT (5) Early critique

That's an impressive dust storm Joyia but I feel it needs more context rather than just some roofs. Showing whole buildings or, better still, people or animals threatened by the storm would be better.

The glow around the tree indicates too much PP work.

Regards, Ian.

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From joyia/Sardar Muhammad (72,279) Send mail to this user on September 26, 2010 5:57:59 AM CDT

Thanks dear Ian for your kind words and appriciation ...you are right about the whole buildings.. or some thing else.. it was taken with the kit lense and it got some limitation .. not so wide and I wanted to capture most of the storm .. well my PP is not still good and I assume I gave a lil stronger USM ..so glad you like it ;) thanks for stoping by ... best of regards.. JOYIA

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from nodule/Jan (8,290) Send mail to this user on September 26, 2010 5:01:48 AM CDT (4) Early critique

wow, this looks like an apocalypse scene Muhammad: the darkness of the cloud at its bottom makes it look really threatening while the inclusion of the brighter part of the sky in the upper left gives the feeling that this cloud is crawling towards you (which was actually the case from your comments). There is some noise in the cloud but that's not an issue here. What bother's me a little is the silhouette of the tree which has a brighter halo around its outline which looks unnatural to me. The buildings have a kind of painted look, maybe there was some pp done? Kind regards, Jan

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From joyia/Sardar Muhammad (72,279) Send mail to this user on September 26, 2010 5:24:36 AM CDT

Thanks dear Jan for your kind words and appriciation .. as you mentioned about the halos ..I just noticed it .. there were few rains before it and the buildening got some wet look.. as for as the PP ..yes I did a very lil of it .. Level adjustment and USM after resize.. may be if it because of it :) so glad you like it :) thanks for stoping by .. best of regards.. JOYIA

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